Methane Bubbles Could Sink Ships

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 22, 2003 @05:28AM from the loose-methane-bubble-lips dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Joseph J Monaghan and David May, of Australia's Monash University, have proposed a novel theory for Bermuda-Triangle-like disappearance of ships at sea: They were swallowed in giant methane bubbles released by undersea vents. Monaghan & May point to sonar of a ship wreck that's sitting in the center of a known methane eruption site, and they've developed a mathematical model that predicts how an eruption could take down a ship. Hey, we ain't talkin' bovine flatulence here..."

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Bermuda-Triangle-like by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-22 05:51 · Score: 0, Troll

To me Bermuda-Triangle-like means John Edward's style BS from the 70s that's been fully debunked.
Beans.... by seater · 2003-10-22 05:53 · Score: 0, Troll

Moral of the story...

The divers in the Bermuda Triangle need to stop eating so many beans before diving.