Was it the end of the mysteries about the Bermuda Triangle?

The Bermuda Triangle is an area of ​​the Atlantic Ocean that lies between Puerto Rico, Florida and the Bermuda Archipelago that became famous for being the point where more than 100 planes and ships simply disappeared without a trace. Most reports came after World War II, when five US Navy planes disappeared without a signal.

But reports of disappearances from the so-called “Devil's Triangle” come from long before the postwar period. In 1840, a French ship was found completely empty, with no sign of its crew. Long before that, a navigator of Christopher Columbus had described in his logbook his fear of the region due to unexplained events.

This has opened the door to a variety of theories about the Bermuda Triangle: haunts, aliens, and even that the region produces so much methane that it would blow up on the surface, as well as affect a ship's buoyancy. causing ships to sink and planes to crash.

A storm zone

Now scientists at the University of Southampton have come up with a new theory based on laboratory tests. According to them, the main reason for the accidents is very large and violent waves generated from various storms that occur in that specific region.

They built a ship model like the USS Cyclops, one of the missing, and simulated waves over 30 meters. According to scientists, the Triangle area is capable of suffering from three very violent storms, crashing into each other at the same time, which would cause waves of this height. A storm that generated a 30-meter wave could break a ship like Cyclops in two, and a 15-meter wave would have no difficulty sinking it.

Apparently, it is best to avoid navigating / flying over the Bermuda Triangle. No one will want to get caught in such a storm, will they?

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