The Bermuda triangle also known as the ‘Devil’s Triangle’ spread over an area of five hundred thousand miles has been a matter of mystery since long. Sailors as well as aircraft pilots fear this place because never a month goes by when a plane or boat doesn’t get vanished in this area and that too without any trace.
In the last 100 years, this place has become a cemetery for thousands of people. And the real problem is that no one knows why it happens in this particular area.
But now it seems the scientists have come to a probable reason behind all these disappearances. They have discovered giant underwater craters at the bottom of the Barrents Sea. These craters are upto half a mile wide and 150 ft deep. These are believed to have been caused by build-up of methane off the coast of natural gas-rich Norway. Scientists assume that the methane would have leaked from deposits of natural gas further below the surface and created cavities which finally burst.
The crater area is likely to represent one of the largest hotspots for shallow marine methane release in the Arctic. The explosions causing the craters to open up could potentially pose risks to vessels travelling on Barents Sea, scientists say. Experts also believe that this same phenomenon could explain the loss of ships and aircrafts in the Bermuda Triangle. Russian scientist Igor Yeltsov, the deputy head of the Trofimuk Institute, said last year: “There is a version that the Bermuda Triangle is a consequence of gas hydrates reactions.
They start to actively decompose with methane ice turning into gas. It happens in an avalanche-like way, like a nuclear reaction, producing huge amounts of gas. That makes the ocean heat up and ships sink in its waters mixed with a huge proportion of gas.
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