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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15031283/Scientist-solved-mystery-Bermuda-Triangle.html
From vanishing aircraft to sinister ghost ships, the Bermuda
Triangle is the location of some of the planet's strangest
phenomena.
Now, a scientist claims to have finally solved the mystery.
Located between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda, the Bermuda
Triangle's long history of deadly wrecks has prompted
endless supernatural speculation.
However, Dr Simon Boxall, an oceanographer from the University
of Southampton, says that the real explanation doesn't involve
UFOs or interdimensional portals.
Instead, Dr Boxall says that the Bermuda Triangle's record
of disappearances is due to 'rogue waves'.
Otherwise known as extreme storm waves, these are unpredictable
walls of water that can reach twice the height of the surrounding
waves.
. . .
Could be.
Some areas DO seem more prone to these things - competing
winds/currents and such that produce waves from several
directions at once. If the peaks happen to combine in
some spot you get a GIGANTIC wave that'll crush most
anything.
Apparently several other offending locations in the world,
Alaska, off S.Africa, Indian Ocean ....
Of course this can explain SHIPS ... but not aircraft.
Alas most theories have drifted towards the ludicrous
of late ... space aliens, 'dimensional portals', time
warps, Atlantis and worse. Makes for fun TV shows.
The infamous "Flight 19" Navy squadron ... at least
ONE plane was apparently found about 20 miles west
of Vero Beach FL in the marshlands. A local judge
(whom I'd actually met in the past at a political thing)
showed a wrecked plane to his son some years later. Navy
DID collect it, SAID it was from Flight 19, recovered at
least one body - and then DENIED it all.
This wasn't a "rogue wave". MIGHT have been simple
confusion that spread across the squadron, sent them
off in random directions. Over the water everything
looks the same. One second of mis-perception and
the whole world turns around on you. No GPS back then,
not even much in the way of radio beacons.
Oh, WHY would the Navy deny everything ? Hey, COLD WAR
was heating up ... important for them, in the press,
to look infallible. Politics & perception are far
more important than reality.
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