Some scientists wonder if giant gas bubbles could be sucking ships beneath the Bermuda Triangle. A Hollywood special effects master, armed with a physicist, air compressors, hoses, and a heavy boat, came to the Gulf Coast to prove it could be true. Wednesday, workers re-enacted a science experiment that led to the gas bubble hypothesis. They forced compressed air through an underwater grid, forcing bubbles to the surface and, after five tries, sucking a Sea Ray cruiser under the water. "I knew it was going to sink," said Philip Beck, 12, whose father, Phil, orchestrated the event. "It was going down!" The experiment had been carried out in tubs with tiny boats, but never on the sea with a lifesize boat. "It was doing it out on the ocean. That was the key," said Steve Wilkinson, an executive producer with the BBC, which filmed the event. "It's one thing to test in a tank, but to do it out in the water with currents … is another."

The BBC and the Discovery Channel contracted Phil Beck, who owns Awesome FX, a special effects company, and physicist Bruce Denardo to test the theory for a film expected to be released next year. "We're looking at the Bermuda Triangle mysteries with fresh eyes," said BBC Executive Producer Steve Wilkinson. "There is background to some of the myths."

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I saw this experiment on the discovery channel. I think it could work, but what is causing the gas bubbles? Aside from giant squid

Ummm... That's all I got.

LOL how interesting but that doesn't explain how the instruments and radios go haywire - or are the squids fornicating with those too?

Well... the earth has tonnes of hot gases inside of it. Releasing it into the Bermuda Triangle area just means there are faults and cracks beneth the area releasing pressure from inside our planet.

This is very very plausible theory. I like it

i heard this theory a few years back... i thought it explained the triangle quite well... if i recall they did explain why the instruments went all crazy, but cant remember why... but i believe this theory more then any other!

It also doesn't explain the missing planes.

I thought research had adequately demonstrated that the Bermuda Triangle lost no more ships than any other similarly sized area in a fairly busy traffic zone. I also thought that every one of the 'freak' disturbances were actually a lot less freaky than some sources made out - it was, in a nutshell, pure invention that ships and planes mysteriously vanished in the Triangle with any more frequency than they mysteriously vanished elsewhere.

I didn't realise there even was a Bermuda Triangle anymore.

So in light of undeniable statistics, why would these people think that gas bubbles are sucking ships under in the Bermuda Triangle, specifically. Why not in the Indian Ocean, or the English Channel, or the Black sea ?

One thing I've learned in reading allllllllll these THREADS...

"One should not read the last post...... first"......

Fornicating squids and goofy whales...... who'd a thunk?

This place is amazing......!!!!!!