Huge Methane Release Documented

It happened in an area of gas and oil seepage coming out of small volcanoes in the ocean floor of the Santa Barbara channel –– called Shane Seep –– near an area known as the Coal Oil Point seep field. The blowout sounded like a freight train, according to the divers.

Given its size and the intensity of maritime and aerial traffic, there is nothing extraordinary in the bermuda triangle. Any similar area with intense traffic has comparable number of disasters.
There is no need to search for explanations like mathane bubbles, geomagnectic anomalies, ETs or sea monsters.

Given its size and the intensity of maritime and aerial traffic, there is nothing extraordinary in the bermuda triangle. Any similar area with intense traffic has comparable number of disasters.
There is no need to search for explanations like mathane bubbles, geomagnectic anomalies, ETs or sea monsters.

It is not the number of lost ships and planes, what interests people are the unexplained losses that happen in good weather that lack any apparent explanation.

There is also the issue of magnetic anomalies that have been reported by pilots and navigators. One might just assume that these reports are all lies, but that would be a faith statement; such as when ball lightning reports, and mariner's reports of rogue waves were all dismissed.

Many accidents that the devil´s Triangle supporters claim happened in good weather, occurred really during storms, but this does not make a good story.

In 1966, a tugboat captain, Don Henry was on his way from Puerto Rico to Fort Lauderdale on a clear afternoon. Suddenly the compasses on his tug began to spin wildly as a strange darkness descended on them and the horizon couldn’t be seen. Water was coming in all directions, and their electrical power failed completely. A dense fog covered their tug. Luckily, their engine kept going and they moved out of the fog. Looking back, the fog was densely concentrated in a solid block, "a bank." Inside this area, the sea was boiling. Outside this area, the sea was calm.

http://www.coverups.com/bermuda.htm

More previous discussions:
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=27512
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=37096
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=82614

It is also worth noting that an offshore oil platform was lost when it sank due to the sudden release of methane; when it hit a pocket of methane while drilling.

...The "Bermuda or Devil's Triangle" is an imaginary area located off the southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States, which is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft. The apexes of the triangle are generally accepted to be Bermuda, Miami, Fla., and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

In the past, extensive, but futile Coast Guard searches prompted by search and rescue cases such as the disappearances of an entire squadron of TBM Avengers shortly after take off from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., or the traceless sinking of Marine Sulphur Queen in the Florida Straits have lent credence to the popular belief in the mystery and the supernatural qualities of the "Bermuda Triangle."

Countless theories attempting to explain the many disappearances have been offered throughout the history of the area. The most practical seem to be environmental and those citing human error. The majority of disappearances can be attributed to the area's unique environmental features. First, the "Devil's Triangle" is one of the two places on earth that a magnetic compass does point towards true north. Normally it points toward magnetic north. The difference between the two is known as compass variation. The amount of variation changes by as much as 20 degrees as one circumnavigates the earth. If this compass variation or error is not compensated for, a navigator could find himself far off course and in deep trouble.

An area called the "Devil's Sea" by Japanese and Filipino seamen, located off the east coast of Japan, also exhibits the same magnetic characteristics. It is also known for its mysterious disappearances.
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I found this story posted by MK in the Earth forum and it seemed to me it provides excellent, documented support for the case made by some people that such methane releases may be responsible for the sudden sinking and, hence, unexplained disappearances of boats, in Bermuda Triangle type scenarios:

http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1482

It seems to me a cloud of this volume coming up under a yacht could easily cause it to swamp and sink very quickly.

There is also this:



It was quite loud underwater, so I'm wondering if that translated to the surface and might constitute another cause of mysterious booms that are heard occasionally around the world.