The moon & bermuda triangle

[Suhail Jalbout]

The Moon & Bermuda Triangle

By Suhail Jalbout

 

SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT the Moon is spiraling at present away from the Earth. If that is the case, then the Moon was at a much nearer distance to Earth when the solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago. It is now receding at a rate of 3.8 cm per year, whereas, it was receding, at the time the solar system was born, at the rate of 10 km per year.{1} Let us assume, that the 3.8 cm per year rate had been constant throughout the Earth’s and the Moon’s life time. This would mean that the Moon had recessed, to date, 175,000 km. The Moon’s closest perigee is 356,000 km.{2}So, the minimum distance that ever occurred between the Earth and the Moon was 190,000 km. At such a distance, the gravitational force between the two would have been almost 4 times the present one. Is it possible that the powerful gravitational pull of the Moon on the Earth, in the remote past, may have created electromagnetic centers below its surface?

 

The Earth has three main layers: the core, the mantle, and the crust. The core is its innermost part and is very hot. It is divided into two layers, the inner core, which is solid and 1,270 km thick, and the outer core, which is molten and 2,200 km thick. The mantle extends from the outer core to the surface of the Earth. It is composed of hot molten magma and is 2,900 km thick. The crust is a very thin shell divided into the Sima, 7 km thick, on which the ocean basins rest, and the Sial, 35 km thick, which floats over the Sima and contains the continents.{3}

 

The Moon exerts an outward pull on Earth and on every atom in it whether in the core, the mantle, or the crust. Both the continents and the oceans experience these pulls but, whereas they are un-noticeable on the continents, they are very obvious on the oceans. The tides are the by-product of these pulls. The liquid and the molten magma in the interior of the Earth are also displaced in the direction of the pull. As a result, higher concentrations of atoms will gather on the side facing the Moon and lesser concentrations will occur on the opposite side. As the Moon rotates around the Earth, strong and weak magnetic field areas will scan the Earth. The effect of the slight shuffling of the Earth’s interior is evident to the present day. The Bermuda Triangle in the Atlantic Ocean maybe a live example.

 

The Bermuda Triangle presents a mystery because so many ships and aircraft disappeared there for no obvious reason and without leaving any trace of the wreckage.{4} The few survivors of Bermuda Triangle incidents stated that their radio communication systems became inoperative, their compass went crazy, a sort of white mist appeared on the surface of the ocean and severe air turbulences happened. In fact, the Bermuda Triangle is not the only place on Earth with such characteristics.

 

There are other similar areas all over the world where ships and aircraft disappeared mysteriously. The professional biologist, Ivan Sanderson, discovered twelve such “devil’s graveyards” around the world: one at the north pole, one at the south pole, five in the northern hemisphere at 36° north latitude separated from each other by 72° intervals, and five in the southern hemisphere at 36° south latitude separated from each other by 72° intervals.{5} Sanderson concluded that due to subsurface tidal currents influenced by temperature, a sort of magnetic vortices are set up at the above locations, causing catastrophic effects to ships and aircraft.

 

The symmetrical locations of these “devil’s graveyards” is extremely intriguing. What could have caused such a pattern? In my opinion, there are probably two main factors that contributed to such an arrangement, namely the Moon and the centrifugal forces within the Earth. The Moon’s gravitational pull, due to its distance from the Earth, will increase the process of shuffling the hot core and magma from side to side. This action will definitely increase the process of releasing the trapped gas inside the core and the hot magma and cause them to bubble up to upper levels. We also know that the rotation of matter near the Earth’s poles is much faster than that near the Equator. This difference in their angular velocities could be translated as differences between their centrifugal forces. Under such conditions, it is probable that currents will be generated in the Earth’s interior.

 

Since all matter inside the Earth follows a symmetrical revolution, because of the revolution of the Moon, then these currents should follow a symmetrical pattern. Consequently, the released gases will bubble up and follow the currents in a symmetrical way. This means that the waves of gas are trapped somewhere in the mantle whereby large concentrations are located at the twelve above mentioned locations. Because of the difference in the specific gravity between gas and the surrounding magma, underground cyclotrons will occur as a result of pressure and temperature variations between them at irregular intervals. These generated cyclotrons will have a tremendous electromagnetic power because the ionized gas will have energetic free electrons revolving at a very high speed. Their electromagnetic power will penetrate the Sima, the ocean, and the atmosphere.

 

So, what happens when a ship or an aircraft passes over the cyclotrons? The compass will fail due to the high magnetic field. The communication system will not function due to high noise levels generated by the electromagnetic waves. The strong electromagnetic fields will ionize the air and create turbulence and air pockets. The energy generated by the cyclotron could produce microwave oven effects, causing evaporation of water molecules and creating white mist. Also, they will act as electromagnets to pull down vessels and possibly aircraft. Finally, they will create huge underwater currents which will carry the sunken vessels and aircraft to an extreme depth under water.

 

We can conclude that the Moon’s gravitational pull on the Earth may have contributed to the formation of the twelve electromagnetic centers.

 

End Notes

1. http://www.homepage.ntlworld.com/trevor_green/

2. http://fourmilab.ch/earthview/moon_ap_per.html

3. http://lhs.sad49.k12.me.us/ljhs/website% 20Resources/earth’s_structure.htm

4. http://www.crystalinks.com/bermuda.html

http://www.greatdreams.com/bermuda.htm

5. http://deepinfo.com/WoldGrid.htm

http://www.vortexmaps.com/htmla/deviltri.htm

[D H]

The Bermuda Triangle presents a mystery because so many ships and aircraft disappeared there for no obvious reason and without leaving any trace of the wreckage.

False. There is no Bermuda Triangle mystery. The reason so many ships and aircraft have problems in the Bermuda Triangle is because so many ships and aircraft sail through or fly over the Bermuda Triangle.

[Bignose]

Since all matter inside the Earth follows a symmetrical revolution, because of the revolution of the Moon, then these currents should follow a symmetrical pattern.

 

No other real-world fluid does this because of turbulence. Real fluids are never perfectly symmetrical. Why should this be the case with the Earth?

 

Rotating fluids aren't inherently stable. They form bands, called Taylor vortices. Look in this picture: http://www.kgroesner.de/forschung/experiment/taylor2.gif This picture is done with cylinders, but the same thing can be seen with a rotating sphere. See Bartels, "Taylor vortices between two concentric rotating spheres", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1982.

 

Besides, the earth itself isn't perfectly symmetrical, in shape or in rotation. The earth is shaped like a sphere with a fat tummy, even if you ignore things like mountains and valleys. And the rotation has a wobble in it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_wobble

 

Shouldn't these "graveyards" move in accordance to the wobble? Shouldn't these "graveyards" move in accordance to the instability of the rotating flow?

[Sisyphus]

I think a lot of people are going to be very surprised that they live in new age technobabble danger zones.

[Suhail Jalbout]

DH wrote: "False. There is no Bermuda Triangle mystery."

 

 

The Bermuda Triangle became famous, more than other locations, because it is one of the busiest shipping areas in the world. However, there is another similar location in the Pacific Ocean called the “Dragon Triangle”. Even though the traffic is not heavy in this triangle, mysterious disappearances occurred.

 

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:nKq3H3KFzQoJ:everything2.com/e2node/Dra

[Ophiolite]

The sea is a dangerous place. Ships sink on a regular basis. Most people are unaware of how regular an occurence this is. A combination of severe sea conditions with improper maintenance, or unskilled crews is all that's needed to change a sea voyage into a mystery. (Let's be topical and add piracy to the list.)

[D H]

Let's be topical and add piracy to the list.

Piracy is a very real phenomenon, and piracy hotspots do exist. (exhibit 1: The recent tanker piracy). Unlike The Bermuda Triangle (and the Devil's Triangle), Lloyd's of London does indeed charge a premium for sailing a vessel filled with valuable cargo through a piracy hotspot, and will soon be charging even more.

[Sisyphus]

DH wrote: "False. There is no Bermuda Triangle mystery."

 

 

The Bermuda Triangle became famous, more than other locations, because it is one of the busiest shipping areas in the world. However, there is another similar location in the Pacific Ocean called the “Dragon Triangle”. Even though the traffic is not heavy in this triangle, mysterious disappearances occurred.

 

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:nKq3H3KFzQoJ:everything2.com/e2node/Dra

 

That link didn't work. I looked it up myself, however, and I couldn't find any evidence that "mysterious disappearances" are more common there than anywhere else. So it seems there's no need for wacko pseudoscientific explanations, or even mundane explanations, because there's nothing to explain.

[Suhail Jalbout]

Dragon Triangle@Everything2.com

 

With his 1989 book The Dragon's Triangle, acclaimed linguist and author Charles Berlitz seeks to present a definitive guide to the Dragon Triangle. ...

 

everything2.com/e2node/Dragon%2520Triangle

 

IN CASE THE LINK DOES NOT WORK, THE TEXT IS AS FOLLOWS:

 

Nearly everyone knows of the Bermuda Triangle, that mysterious area in the Atlantic where ships and planes have been disappearing without a trace. All manner of bizarre occurances have been reported there, from magnetic anomalies to freak storms and waves, to the complete cessation of all electrical activity. On almost the exact opposite side of the planet, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan, there is a similar, though less widely known, mystery of the sea. The Japanese call it the Ma-no Umi: the Sea of the Devil, but it is also known as the Dragon's Triangle or Dragon Sea. The area has been designated a "Danger Zone" by the Japanese government, and even the United States Air Force has expressed concern over aircraft disappearances there.

 

... the Dragon Triangle in the Western Pacific forms a generally triangular pattern. It follows a line from western Japan north of Tokyo to a point in the Pacific at approximately latitude 145 degrees east. It then turns west-southwest past the Ogasawara Shinto (the Bonin Islands) and then down to Guam and Yap, west to Taiwan and then returns north-northeast back to Japan, near the measuring point of Nojima Zaki on the Bay of Tokyo. - Charles Berlitz, describing the location of the Dragon's Triangle

With his 1989 book The Dragon's Triangle, acclaimed linguist and author Charles Berlitz seeks to present a definitive guide to the Dragon Triangle. He begins by describing the area in general terms and noting some of the strange phenomena found there: mysterious lights, unexplained disappearances, sudden fogs and storms, and so forth. He makes the inevitable comparison to the Bermuda Triangle off the coast of Florida, a theme to which he returns throughout the book. The two areas are on opposite sides of the Earth in both longitude and latitude, and both are located on the eastern edges of continental shelves, where the ocean floor drops off into deep trenches where strong currents sweep over actively volcanic areas. The main agonic lines, where true and magnetic north conincide, run through these areas (or did, the agonic line in the Western Hemisphere has since shifted west into the Gulf of Mexico). Both spots also mark nodal points where major surface and tidal currents turn, usually in opposite directions. Berlitz hints at the possibility that the mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda and Dragon Triangles may not be coincidental; since both areas are so similar, the same phenomenon might be behind the lost ships and planes.

 

The next section of the book details many of the craft which have disappeared within the Dragon Triangle. In most cases, no wreckage, oil slicks, or flotsam was ever found to indicate a sinking. Among the missing ships are tankers weighing over 200,000 tons, Japanese and American warships, airplanes (including one that was transporting an early atomic bomb), and Soviet nuclear missile submarines. Some of these vessels became ghost ships that turned up, empty of crew, in distant seas, but most of them vanished utterly, never to be heard from again. Although endless listings of missing ships can make for dry reading, Berlitz includes enough stories and historical accounts to keep the reader's interest. The stories of the Triangle's "Flying Dutchmen" ghost ships are particularly interesting.

 

Some of his theories connect only tangentially to the Dragon Triangle. A supposed sea monster caught in the area in 1977, identified from photographs as possibly being a plesiosaur (the carcass was thrown overboard before the fighing boat returned to port) leads Berlitz into a discussion of coelacanths and lake monsters around the world. He also believes it is possible that Amelia Earhart could possibly have been a victim of the Triangle, if rather than following her established flight plan, she had flown north at the request of the United States government to spy on Japanese islands in the area. Evidence he cites includes a transmission from Earhart about bad weather, though her intended flight path was clear all the way, and a report that the Marines, soon after capturing the island of Saipan, secretly disinterred the bodies of Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan and transported them back to America. It's a bit of a stretch, but an interesting theory nonetheless.

 

What book on mysterious disappearances would be complete with a chapter about UFOs (originally known as mikakunin hiko-buttai in Japan)? Berlitz traces UFO sightings all the way back to the 12th century. He relates many instances, few of which actually occur within the Triangle, and even brings out the theory that the 1908 blast over Tunguska in Russian Siberia was an exploding extraterrestrial craft, rather than a comet or meteor. As with the Bermuda Triangle, it is always tempting to say that the missing people were abducted by aliens for some purpose beyond our understanding.

 

Berlitz does make a solid argument that many of the disappearances in the Dragon Triangle could be attributed to natural forces. The area sits on top of the Ring of Fire, where the Earth's tectonic forces are unleashed unpredictably and violently. The depth of the ocean there is in near-constant flux, with volcanic activity creating and destroying islands, causing earthquakes in the depths that lead to tsunamis on the surface. Sudden eruptions and uncharted islands and seamounts could account for many lost ships and submarines, and rogue waves are easily capable of pushing a ship under so swiftly that no oil slicks or flotsam would be left on the surface. The storms of the Pacific are some of the most violent on Earth as well, and have claimed countless lives throughout the area.

 

The Pacific has a long history of uncertain navigation, due in large part to the appearance and subsequent disappearance of islands. Many ships have lost their way looking for lands that are no longer there, or perhaps never were. Berlitz weaves this history into the theories of sunken continents and ancient advanced civilizations. Countless ruins throughout the Pacific islands, such as the statues of Easter Island, the stone city of Nan Madol on Ponape, enormous structures found on Mariana and Marquesa Islands all seem to him to point at a single ancient and advanced civilization. Maps showing the coastline of Antarctica as it would have appeared before being covered with ice indicate that this civilization would have had to exist millenia before the earliest known civilization. Colonel James Churchward's theories about a lost continent of Mu, where the first human civilization arose some 80,000 years ago are used to tie these cultures together.

 

Berlitz wraps up his book with the wildest theories of all. He tells of evidence of ancient atomic warfare in various parts of the world. Passages in ancient Hindu texts can be interpreted as descriptions of atomic weapons. Radioactive skeletons have been found in archaeological sites along the Indus river, apparently struck down by a sudden catastrophe. Another site along the Euphrates river in Iraq had a layer of fused glass below the oldest cultural remains, fused glass which bears a striking resemblance to the trinitite created at the site of the Trinity test in New Mexico. If there was a civilization predating everything we know about, perhaps they annihilated themselves in a massive atomic war.

 

While I think much of the mystery of the Dragon Triangle lies in the unstable volcanic nature of the area, Berlitz puts forth several interesting, if improbable, alternate theories. Each of these lead to other potentially fascinating lines of research, and his overviews of the theories and evidence are well done. His narratives, though not as entertaining as, say, Clive Cussler's, are still more than sufficient to keep the book from becoming a dry list of the ships, planes, and submarines lost in the area. Even if you don't believe there's anything supernatural behind the disappearances here or in the Bermuda Triangle, The Dragon's Triangle is well worth reading.

[D H]

Charles Berlitz is a crackpot, and apparently, so are you.

 

This thread started with a false association between the moon and the Bermuda Triangle. You moved the goalposts to just the Bermuda Triangle in general, and have now moved them again to the Devil's Sea. The Japanese government has not designated this as a "Danger Zone" (it isn't even on nautical maps) and even the United States Air Force has *not* expressed concern over aircraft disappearances there.

[Bignose]

Any chance that any of my (in my opinion) valid points will be addressed? Why aren't the zones affected by the wobble in the Earth's rotation and the instability of rotating fluid flows?

[JohnB]

Charles Berlitz is a crackpot, and apparently, so are you.

Charles Berlitz is not a crackpot. He is a very intelligent man with quite amazing writing skills.

 

I cite the fact that he has made a very good living for over 30 years by writing this cr*p as evidence.

[Ophiolite]

I cite the fact that he has made a very good living for over 30 years by writing this cr*p as evidence.

J.K.Rowling has also made a very good living this way. Both authors write fiction.

[JohnB]

Ah, but can she keep it up for 30 years? Although I suppose with the money she's made so far, she doesn't have to.

 

I wonder if Berlitz can write off his travel expenses as "research"? If he can, it wouldn't be a bad lurk, travel the world to exotic places and get the taxman to pay for it.

[DrP]

I saw a documentry a few years back about gasses released from the sea bed. I cant remeber much about what gasses, but they showed that a significantly large release of gass can make a very large area of sea less dense for a minute or so. They also showed that if a ship sailed through an area as this happened it couls easily just drop through the water and be engulfed in a seeminly freek occurance. They suggested this as a possible explanation of why the BT is a hot spot for dissapearances. They thought that it might be an area with unusual sea bed activity resulting in frequent and large discharges of gasses from the sea bed. They demenstrated the effect with small scale models and the 'bubbly' water sank the model ships like stones.

 

(PS - I'm not claiming that this why the BT myseries occur - or even that they occur at all - it was just in a program I watched about 5 or 6 years ago which claimed to have discovered this phenominun. Can't remember what it was called... probably Horizon, QED or something like that)

[tomgwyther]

Draw a triangle anywhere on the Earth's surface (Which covers a large amount of ocean) then do some research into lost shipping and lost aircraft.

What one finds is that the frequency of shipping and air losses (Explained or otherwise) is roughly the same.

In fact most insurance companies lower their premiums for vessels around the Bermuda triangle because it is "One of the quieter areas of freight transport with regards to shipping losses".

[DrP]

Here you go - some links to stuff about sea bed methane release in shallow waters:

http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf100/sf100g09.htm

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1350-bubbling-seas-can-sink-ships.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waratah_(ship)