The so called Bermuda Triangle is an ill-famed zone in the North Atlantic Ocean that has been delimited in the area between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda that has made a reputation in the last century due to numerous ships and planes mysteriously disappearing in it. While pop culture and urban legends attribute a series of paranormal features to this area, scientists may have just found a feasible explanation for the phenomena that take place here.

As a matter of fact, it would appear that much of the mystery regarding this zone can be attributed to the undocumented and embellished stories that particular writers of the 1900s and early 2000s have published and related on the matter. While a number of researchers had just assigned harsh weather conditions as being the main culprit behind the disappearances, it still felt like the unfortunate events were the result of something more than just that.

Scientists have tracked down a possible culprit all the way to the sea-floor of the coast of Norway; here lie numerous craters that researchers believe are central to the issue of the Bermuda Triangle. The craters in question measure 800 meters in width and can go as deep as 45 meters. These craters are believed to have been formed as a result of methane build-ups in the sea-floor sediments that lie just off Norway’s coast. According to the researchers, some of these methane blowouts grow to enormous sizes, large enough to be able of swallowing even incredibly large ships.

The reason behind that is the fact that because these gas bubbles have the capability of producing regions of frothy water where its density is reduced and can no longer provide the same amount of buoyancy for the ships passing. As a result, the passing ship would fall to sinking at a rapid pace and with little to no warning.

According to the scientists on this study, even if said craters that even led them to this hypothesis are far away from the Bermuda Triangle, they could very well be the very reason behind the disappearances. Whether the real cause lies off the coast of Norway or exists within the sea-floor of the Bermuda Triangle too is not yet known. However, because of how large scale the phenomenon is – researchers describing it as an avalanche-like reaction that produces a tremendous amount of gas – their effect may be easier to notice now when the scientists know exactly what to look out for.

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