For the
one and a half century, numerous ships and airplanes have disappeared in
Bermuda Triangle area, usually under mysterious circumstances. But a new
research from the scientists at Arctic University in Norway takes cues from the
multiple giant craters on the floor of the Barents Sea.
A massive
deposit of methane gas may have exploded in the craters surrounding the
seabed caused by gas leaking from oil and gas deposits buried deep in the sea
floor.
In the past two years,
scientists have also documented methane gas bubbling up from the seafloor off
the some parts of the west and the east coasts of the United States. One of the
topics that need further analysis is whether methane gas explosions on the
seabed could threaten the safety of ships.
Multiple giant craters exist on the sea floor in an area in the
west-central Barents Sea and are probably a cause of enormous blowouts of
gas. The crater area is likely to represent one of the largest hotspots for
shallow marine methane release in the Arctic.
Researchers
at the Arctic University of Norway say.
This is not the fist
time the possibility of methane gas eruptions in the Bermuda Triangle has been
suggested. Last year a group of researchers led by Igor Yelstov of the Trofimuk
Institute in Russia said that the mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda
Triangle were the effects of hydrant gas reactions. When the craters start to
actively decompose, methane ice is transformed into gas.
If the theory of methane
gas explosions being the cause of so many disappearances in the Bermuda
Triangle proves to be correct, then we can chalk one up for science. But would
the theory explain the magnetic anomalies associated with the area? It will be
interesting to hear.
