the bermuda triangle

A new thread was needed, so I'm going to have another whack at finding good conversation. See how we go.

For decades, the Atlantic Ocean’s fabled Bermuda Triangle has captured the human imagination with unexplained disappearances of ships, planes, and people.

Some speculate that unknown and mysterious forces account for the unexplained disappearances, such as extraterrestrials capturing humans for study; the influence of the lost continent of Atlantis; vortices that suck objects into other dimensions; and other whimsical ideas. Some explanations are more grounded in science, if not in evidence. These include oceanic flatulence (methane gas erupting from ocean sediments) and disruptions in geomagnetic lines of flux.
(oceanservice.noaa.gov)

My opinion is that along with a stretch of ocean near Japan, it's highly unpredictable weather patterns catch many out. But that doesn't explain a lot of the confirmed stories.

Feel free to branch out with posts on similar mysteries.

Oceanic flatulence....never heard that before.