Scientists from the University of Southampton in England think they know what causes disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle. Do you agree?

I have heard of rogue waves. There is no single explanation for them, but they do occur and can easily sink a ship.

Aircraft have disappeared in the triangle so I don't think a wave is to blame. Cheers and happy weekend!

I believe there is a similar phenomena on the other side of the world.

I heard one theory that the Earth passes through a "micro" black hole (MBH), and when ships/planes hit the MBH they naturally "disappear" into it.

Such waves are one of several possible causes of ships disappearing, and by no means confined to the so-called Bermuda Triangle. The wrecks of ships will be more or less below where they left the surface, aircraft might drift or glide some way away; but no-one has tried to search for them if only because the last positions are not known and exploring beyond the Continental Shelf would be an extremely long and costly exercise.

It took a long time to find the ruins of the Titanic, the Hood and the Bismark, and their approximate last positions were known.

There was a very interesting and thought-provoking radio documentary on the "Bermuda Triangle" a while back, by a BBC journalist who investigated the most serious or strangest losses and found all had been explained or could be pieced together from a few pieces of evidence and eye-witness accounts. (Not witnesses to the losses but to some of the causes.)

There is nothing mysterious about that region. It is a very large area of very deep water, beset by very rapidly changeable and often very severe water; but is also very busy for both ships and aircraft.

Most disappearances have been investigated but sadly, too many people prefer to believe in myths than the dry reality hidden in official reports lying in filing-cabinets. So it receives a lot of publicity that hampers proper understanding and does nothing at all for the memories of those who have died out there.  The reality is of occasional, natural disasters; but much more often, human errors and misjudgements including neglect of, or badly-made and unauthorised modifications to, ships and planes.

Also, from one or two pilots who have became lost over the Gulf of Mexico or the Caribbean but eventually found their way home safely, a curious psychological trait to believe one's own "instinct" rather than perfectly good navigational instruments, so become totally disorientated.
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Some of his examples:

One of the most notorious, back in the 1940s I think - the loss of an airliner flying from Britain to Florida. Instead of refuelling in the Azores, for reasons we cannot know the pilots pressed on. The meteorological records showed strong headwinds, and it was easy to calculate the aeroplane would have run out of fuel over the Western Atlantic. It also emerged the owning air-line was not good at maintenance.  No "black box" in its day, no way for the occupants to have survived even if they had escaped the ditched plane; no way to find the wreck even if anyone could have worked out its likely position.

A cargo ship that sailed out of the Gulf and vanished. It was an old collier adapted without proper authority and inspection to carry a denser and corrosive cargo, a fertiliser. The holds were known to be severely corroded, and that she left port with one engine out of action - an unseaworthy rust-bucket heading out too, into rapidly worsening weather.

The owner of a crop-dusting plane trying to deliver it from one of the southern States to a new owner in Brazil. He left American air-traffic control with the routine signing-off radio message, and was never seen again. Careful probing found he was known to have put an unauthorised fuel-tank in the plane's nose, upsetting its trim; and airfield staff recalled it was leaking petrol. No-one thought to stop him taking off, and almost certainly he ran out of fuel well before reaching the far coast.   

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Remember the Indonesian airliner lost a few years ago somewhere over the Indian Ocean? No-one has found that. A huge area of deep water, no-one knowing the plane's final direction but that may have been so far off-course that its acoustic distress-beacon* could not be heard from likely locations until the beacon's battery became exhausted. Weeks of slow, patient "lawn-mowing" of the sea-bed with side-scan sonar, but nothing found other than a few scraps that had floated ashore; and a sunken ship identified as one lost in the 19C. And this is a modern loss; for reasons we can never know but are suspected as deliberate. 


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Ships and aircraft are man-made things used in unforgiving natural conditions. Humanly-made things can and do break despite the best will and care in the world; and even more so if not used or maintained properly, especially in hostile conditions. The only thing "strange" about the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, was the behaviour of some who have ventured onto or over them; and paid with their and others' lives.   


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*Radio-waves do not travel through water, but sound does, and very well. So this distress-beacon emits sound: distinctive squeaks that can be detected by sensitive hydrophones at considerable distances away, to guide the search teams.
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Whatever the truth of things we don't fully understand, I would hope we can handle it! 

The basis of science and learning is to use of logic, but I am not convinced any of the ancients had learnt anything we've not.

Writings and relics that do survive from Classical times suggest that though they were right about many things and even laid foundations we build on now, they could also be very wide of the mark. They did not have the benefit of the accumulated knowledge we enjoy. Nor did they have the research tools we have.