What ever happened to The Bermuda Triangle?

Ghost Buster · 20-09-2011 09:21AM #1

Children of the 70's and 80's may remember all the hype and hoopla concerning The Bermuda Triangle AKA The Devils Triangle is a body of water where for centuries ships and even entire flights of aircraft during various wars had mysteriously vanished without trace. There was a cinema release docu-movie about it which people flocked to. A slew of crappy "B" tv sci fi series about folk falling prey to The Triangle and finding them selves in other dimensions. I seem to remember it being referred to in a news programme when a plane crashed in that part of the world. Heck I even knew someone who new someone who's brothers friends cousin knew a pilot who had had problems when flying near to it.
This was attributed to everything from mundane fluctuations in the earths magnetic field pulling down air craft (though how this worked on timber sailing ships was never explained), to alien activity and even to a solar weapon invented by The Atlantiens which caused the island to sink but which was still shooting blasts of solar energy occasionally.
Anyone else remember this or was i eating too many Wham bars and fizzle sticks and having sugar induced head trips?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 20-09-2011 09:22AM

conspiracy retards were gifted 9/11, so they dont care about bermuda anymore

who the fug · 20-09-2011 09:22AM

Fell out of fashion that is all

billybudd · 20-09-2011 09:23AM

nobody knows.

dirtypanties · 20-09-2011 09:25AM

Didn't it turn out to be something really boring like magnetic pull on the sea bed or something??

Not what we wanted to hear:(

I always suspected alien activity-this scientific explanation was far too bland.

Ghost Buster · 20-09-2011 09:27AM

dirtypanties wrote: »

Didn't it turn out to be something really boring like magnetic pull on the sea bed or something??

Not what we wanted to hear:(

I always suspected alien activity-this scientific explanation was far too bland.

As far as i can figure it turned out to be nothing more than folk lore with a little added time, chinese whispers, hysteria etc. A bit like Knock but more fun!

Chuck Stone · 20-09-2011 09:28AM

People did a complete 180 on the issue and triangles fell out of favour for appearing obtuse.

barone · 20-09-2011 09:30AM

fell through the hole in the ozone layer

FatherLen · 20-09-2011 09:31AM

it disappeared in the bermuda tri.... oh wait....

mconigol · 20-09-2011 09:35AM

It's just biding its time OP, you've been warned :eek:

Duggy747 · 20-09-2011 09:36AM

Turned out it was a square all along.

Years of scientific work down the drain.

xzanti · 20-09-2011 09:37AM

Ask Mr. Tayto

ejmaztec · 20-09-2011 09:40AM

People have become more interested in the money and people that disappeared outside the triangle, than anything disappearing inside it.

The Mulk · 20-09-2011 09:43AM

Bermuda Triangle It makes people disappear
Bermuda Triangle Don't go too near
But she Doesn't see my angle
And she thinks I'm being dumb
So Bermuda Triangle
Here we come!

Sung by Barry Manilow and used to advertise a blue triangled box of chocolates
:cool:

Elmidena · 20-09-2011 09:50AM

It was created when the Mary Celeste suddenly decided to do a three point turn and being a wimmin driver, took it too literally. The disappeared people/boats etc are waiting in the middle for her to finish before they dare venture out

Ghost Buster · 20-09-2011 09:51AM

The Mulk wrote: »

Bermuda Triangle It makes people disappear
Bermuda Triangle Don't go too near
But she Doesn't see my angle
And she thinks I'm being dumb
So Bermuda Triangle
Here we come!

Sung by Barry Manilow and used to advertise a blue triangled box of chocolates
:cool:

I will hate you for ever for that:mad:

On a side note didnt it even feature in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Thats WW2 flight which returned on the alien craft was one which 'vanished' in The Triangle

who the fug · 20-09-2011 09:53AM

Ghost Buster wrote: »

I will hate you for ever for that:mad:

On a side note didnt it even feature in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Thats WW2 flight which returned on the alien craft was one which 'vanished' in The Triangle

Flight 19

KTRIC · 20-09-2011 10:00AM

It was turned off by the US government due to lack of funding.

Liam Byrne · 20-09-2011 10:01AM

The last half-logical explanation I heard was that it's causes by an underwater volcano / vent which, when it "erupts" affects the bouyany and airborne-ness of anything above it.

B.A. Robertson had a cool song about Flight 19.

Emiko · 20-09-2011 10:08AM

One of my namesakes had a memorable encounter there.

Weird stuff.

http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/bruce_gernon.html

Biggins · 20-09-2011 10:29AM

It got lost?

Plazaman · 20-09-2011 10:38AM

It was bought by the Disney Corporation in 1997 and to avoid being shapist (of course we all know that sordid story about Michael Mouse and the whole lurid triangle saga of '85) they turned it into a circle. However audience approval tests for the "New and Improved Bermuda Circle" plunged it's popularity and Disney sold it onto Billy Ray Cyrus in 2004. He stores his daughter there until she's need for another daytime Hanna Banana movie.

Pompey Magnus · 20-09-2011 10:40AM

The same thing happened to it as happened to miracles, people starting applying logic and reason to claims made about it and it began looking less and less mysterious. Now its about as much of a mystery as Jesus now limiting himself to appearances on slices of toast.

4leto · 20-09-2011 10:50AM

Its still about and Nat Geog and those science channels are always doing pieces about it.

I seen a logical explanation about the phenomena involving natural gas eruptions.

It is around the deepest part of the ocean in the world and when this gas is released from the bottom the bubbles ionize, causing magnetism which mess about with compasses and electronics. Also ships lose buoyancy in bubbly water and sink intact and planes explode with the the large amount of highly inflammable gas in the air. Then they sink to the deepest part of the ocean.

Also ionized gas glows in the air which explains the UFOs associated with the area.

So its either that, aliens or a black hole.

ROCKMAN · 20-09-2011 10:54AM

Moved to Ireland and was re-named " The Black Hole of Angelo Irish Bank "

JerryHandbag · 20-09-2011 10:56AM

Plazaman wrote: »

Disney sold it onto Billy Ray Cyrus in 2004.

That would explain why you don't hear about it anymore.

stevenmu · 20-09-2011 11:41AM

In a fine example of Darwinian Evolution in action, everyone who had much interest in the Bermuda Triangle, has at some point or other gone there to investigate it and promptly dissapeared. Thus humanity has evolved into a genetically superior species with little to no interest in the Bermuda Triangle.

Irish Guitarist · 20-09-2011 11:45AM

There was a documentary on Discovery about it a few months ago. A group of sailors sailed close to it and their equipment went haywire. I think it has something to with the Earths magnetic pull.

There's also a similar triangle on the other side of the world called the Dragons Triangle or Devils Sea.

My name is URL · 20-09-2011 11:52AM

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0920/cork.html

They had sailed the boat from the US Virgin Islands to Bermuda and after a brief stop-over set out for Crookhaven on 21 August.

They were due to arrive in the west Cork village on Thursday last.

There has been no radio contact with the yacht since it left Bermuda and yesterday coastguard services there and here in Ireland became concerned for its safety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

Mickey H · 20-09-2011 12:31PM

Health And Safety shut it down. Someone got snagged on one of the corners.

cosmicfart · 20-09-2011 12:56PM

OP havent you seen Jurassic park? The Bermuda Triangle is now known as the island east lasorna, were all the flying dinos hang out

What ever happened to The Bermuda Triangle?

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