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The "Bermuda Triangle"
"Mysteries of the sea"
Here's a quote from the US Navy Historical Centre website.
These are people who actually deal with the sea instead of reading about it in sensationalist books.
"Lt. Cmdr. Peter Quinton, meteorologist and satellite liaison officer with the Fleet Weather Service at Suitland, Md., said, "You can come up with hundreds of possibilities and elaborate on all of them and then come up with hundreds more to dispute the original ones."
"It's all statistical," he said, "there's nothing magical about it." According to Quinton, the Bermuda Triangle is notorious for unpredictable weather. The only things necessary for a storm to become a violent hurricane are speed, fetch (the area the wind blows over) and time. If the area is large enough, a thunderstorm can whip into a hurricane of tremendous intensity. But hurricanes can usually be spotted by meteorologists using satellite surveillance. It is the small, violent thunderstorms known as meso-meteorological storms that they can't predict since they are outside of normal weather patterns. These are tornadoes, thunderstorms and immature tropical cyclones.
They can occur at sea with little warning, and dissipate completely before they reach the shore. It is highly possible that a ship or plane can sail into what is considered a mild thunderstorm and suddenly face a meso-meteorological storm of incredible intensity.
Satellites sometimes cannot detect tropical storms if they are too small in diameter, or if they occur while the satellite is not over the area. There is a 12-hour gap between the time the satellite passes over a specific part of the globe until it passes again. During these 12 hours, any number of brief, violent storms could occur.
Quinton said, "Thunderstorms can also generate severe electrical storms sufficient to foul up communication systems." Speaking of meso-meteorological storms, which she dubbed "neutercanes," Dr. Joanne Simpson, a prominent meteorologist at the University of Miami, said in the Cosmopolitan article that "These small hybrid type storm systems arise very quickly, especially over the Gulf Stream. They are several miles in diameter, last a few minutes or a few seconds and then vanish. But they stir up giant waves and you have chaotic seas coming from all directions. These storms can be devastating."
Read the whole article
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq8-3.htm
There is nothing mysterious about it.
"Why was there no wreckage?"
The sea is a big deep thing and stuff that sinks in it is hard to find.
Clear enough?
No mystery.
A big pile of sensationalist garbage aimed at making money from the gullible.
I have links to people who go to sea for a living, risking their lives to bring the fish home.
Occasionally we'll hear of a boat being lost. It happens more or less each winter.
For people connected with fishing communities such an event is devastating.
The suggestion that when a boat sinks with all hands and can't be found, it is some "mystery of the deep" to be connected with the occult or some pseudoscientific gibbering, trivialises the lives of the men who are lost and is actually quite insulting.
[Edited by CreepingJesus on 7th October 2003 at 11:56]