New Anomaly Found Under the Bermuda Triangle

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A brand new anomaly just showed up under the Bermuda Triangle… and it’s the kind of thing that makes the whole legend feel way less like fiction. This video breaks down what was detected, why it’s so weird, and what scientists think could be hiding beneath one of the most infamous zones on Earth. Between strange readings, underwater structures, and theories that range from totally logical to absolutely creepy, this is one mystery that refuses to die. The Bermuda Triangle has always been famous for disappearances… but this time, the ocean itself might be giving up a secret.  Credit: Mountains in the Deep: By NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ocean-fact/seamounts/ sediments: By NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by James Acker, NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data Center/Adnet Inc., and Mike Carlowicz., https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/gonzalo-stirs-up-sediment-and-the-carbon-cycle-84595/ CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/: Silicon dioxide nanoparticles: By Лангин Сергей Сергеевич, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45962768 CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0: Seismic Station: By daryl_mitchell from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada - https://flic.kr/p/pPXitQ, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40681348 Animation is created by Bright Side.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/   Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV  Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Our Social Media:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightplanet/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en   Stock materials (photos, footages and other):  https://www.depositphotos.com  https://www.shutterstock.com  https://www.eastnews.ru  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.

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00:00Over 50 ships and 20 planes have vanished without a trace in this area.

00:06The Bermuda Triangle still sends chills down people's spines.

00:10And now, it's given us another mystery.

00:13What could happen next?

00:15Scientists have discovered a strange new mystery under the North Atlantic,

00:19right beneath the Bermuda Archipelago.

00:23It's an infamous region.

00:24You must have heard about the Bermuda Triangle, right?

00:27It's a huge area in the North Atlantic, roughly between Florida, Bermuda, and the Greater Antilles,

00:35roughly forming a massive triangle.

00:38Experts haven't agreed on its exact boundaries yet,

00:41but it covers hundreds of thousands of square miles.

00:45You must have heard creepy stories about ships and planes disappearing in the triangle.

00:50We'll talk about it a bit later.

00:52Right now, another mystery is looming on the horizon.

00:57Below the island of Bermuda, researchers have found an enormous rock layer about 12.5 miles thick.

01:04And it's way thicker than anything like this anywhere else in the world.

01:08Normally, the ocean floor has a crust at the bottom, and below that is the mantle.

01:14But under Bermuda, there's an extra layer right beneath the crust,

01:19inside the tectonic plate the island sits on.

01:21It's a totally unexpected structure, and scientists aren't sure how it could form.

01:27This discovery might explain a long-standing mystery about Bermuda itself.

01:32The island is located on an oceanic swell.

01:35That's a part of the ocean floor that's higher than its surroundings.

01:40Now, usually, a swell like this comes from volcanoes.

01:42But there's no evidence of any ongoing volcanic activity there.

01:48Bermuda's last known eruption occurred 31 million years ago.

01:52That's why the discovery of this new rock layer is so important.

01:57It may be the clue to a baffling mystery.

02:00Researchers think the last eruption might have pushed mantle rock up into the crust.

02:04This rock then froze in place, forming a kind of raft that lifted the ocean floor by about 1,600 feet.

02:12And this giant frozen structure may be what keeps the Bermuda archipelago on an oceanic swell,

02:18high above the surrounding ocean floor.

02:22You see, some island chains form because of hot spots deep under the earth.

02:27Hot rock rises from the mantle, melts, and creates volcanoes.

02:31When this happens, the ocean floor gets pushed up.

02:35But after that, as tectonic plates shift,

02:38islands slowly drift away from the hot mantle plume that created them.

02:43They cool down, sink under their own weight,

02:46and leave a trail of old volcanoes behind.

02:49Over millions of years, many of these once tall islands sink below the ocean.

02:55Some become underwater mountains.

02:57Those are called seamounts.

02:58And if erosion flattens their tops near the surface, they're called Gaia's.

03:04A perfect example is the Hawaiian Emperor Chain.

03:08Hawaii's Big Island is still active and above water.

03:11But as you go northwest, the islands get older, smaller, and eventually sink below the ocean.

03:18Bermuda is different.

03:20Its swell hasn't gone down,

03:22even though it hasn't had a volcanic eruption in millions of years.

03:26To figure out this mystery, scientists used a seismic station on Bermuda.

03:32They looked at how waves from big earthquakes around the world

03:35traveled under the island at a depth of about 31 miles.

03:39They noted where the waves changed speed,

03:42and it helped them find a huge thick layer of rock under Bermuda.

03:46Interestingly, this rock is less dense than the surrounding material,

03:51acting like a raft,

03:52keeping the ocean floor lifted and explaining the island's swell.

03:57Research shows that the lava from Bermuda is low in silica,

04:01which means it came from a rock that is high in carbon.

04:04And the analysis of zinc in rock samples suggests that this carbon came from deep in the mantle.

04:11It was likely pushed there when the supercontinent Pangea formed between 900 million and 300 million years ago.

04:18This is different from islands formed over hotspots in the Pacific or Indian Oceans.

04:22One of the reasons may be that the Atlantic is a younger ocean,

04:26created when Pangea split, while the Pacific and Indian Oceans are older.

04:31And Bermuda's location, once at the heart of Pangea, may help explain why it is so unique.

04:38Scientists are now studying other islands to see if similar rock layers exist,

04:43or if Bermuda is truly one of a kind.

04:47Understanding extreme locations like Bermuda

04:49help scientists figure out the normal and unusual processes that shape our planet.

04:55Now, the Bermuda Triangle itself has fascinated and frightened people for over a century.

05:02Officially, the Bermuda Triangle doesn't even exist.

05:05No world map marks it,

05:07and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names doesn't recognize it as a real region.

05:12But people still know about this location and fear it.

05:16Stories of unexplained disappearances in the area date back to the mid-19th century.

05:22But the phrase Bermuda Triangle didn't appear until 1964,

05:27when the region was described as a triangular stretch of ocean

05:30that had destroyed hundreds of ships and planes without a trace.

05:34In 1918, the USS Cyclops vanished without explanation while traveling from Brazil to Baltimore,

05:43taking 306 crew members with it.

05:46Decades later, in 1945,

05:49Flight 19 disappeared over the same waters,

05:52leaving no wreckage and no clues.

05:55American writer Charles Berlitz added fuel to the mystery

05:58in his 1974 bestseller, The Bermuda Triangle.

06:02He even linked the disappearances to the mythical lost city of Atlantis.

06:07But despite the stories,

06:09the Bermuda Triangle isn't unusually dangerous.

06:12Studies, including one by the World Wildlife Fund in 2013,

06:17show that it's not even among the world's 10 most hazardous shipping areas.

06:22The region sees heavy daily traffic by both sea and air,

06:26which makes it one of the busiest shipping lanes on the planet.

06:29So, why all the mystery?

06:32The Bermuda Triangle gets hit by tropical storms and hurricanes all the time.

06:37The Gulf Stream, a powerful ocean current,

06:40dashes through the area and causes sudden and extreme weather changes.

06:44Compass readings can get tricky here too.

06:47The Agonic Line, where True North and Magnetic North align,

06:51sometimes passes through the triangle.

06:53And below it all lies the Atlantic's deepest point,

06:57the Milwaukee Depth.

06:58It plunges 27,500 feet into the Puerto Rico Trench.

07:04These factors combined can lead to accidents that will make anyone believe

07:08there's something mysterious going on in the region.

07:11No wonder people have always been wondering about what's going on there.

07:15A few theories emerged.

07:17Let's take a look at the most plausible ones.

07:19So, one thing to consider is rogue waves.

07:23These are super big sudden waves that pop up out of nowhere.

07:27They're at least twice as tall as the waves around them, like walls of water.

07:32They're really dangerous for ships and anything in the ocean.

07:35Add all those severe storms and powerful currents in the triangle,

07:39and you'll understand that a ship could get smashed in seconds in such conditions.

07:44Some scientists talk about methane bubbles coming up from the ocean floor.

07:50According to them, if enough of that gas hits the water at once,

07:54it actually makes the water less dense, and this can actually cause a ship to sink.

07:59Sure, this phenomenon doesn't happen all the time,

08:02but it's enough to make people nervous.

08:04Then, there's the magnetic stuff.

08:07Back in the day, compasses would freak out in the Bermuda Triangle

08:11because true north and magnetic north sometimes line up here.

08:16So, sailors get totally lost.

08:19GPS fixes that these days, but in the past,

08:22it caused serious headaches and led to rumors and urban legends.

08:26Plus, as we already know, the weather is severe in that area.

08:30Hurricanes, tropical storms, and the Gulf Stream

08:33can turn calm waters into a total nightmare in no time.

08:38But a lot of it is just human error, too.

08:42The Triangle is one of the busiest shipping routes on the planet.

08:46Pilots and captains can mess up, especially in bad weather or at night.

08:50Flight 19 is a classic example.

08:53Once we mix heavy traffic with all those natural hazards,

08:57accidents are just going to happen.

08:59So, even though the Bermuda Triangle is kind of scary,

09:03mostly, it's just nature doing its thing.

09:06And we just need to deal with it.

09:08We still have a lot to explore and discover in that region,

09:11and we need to learn to navigate that area.

09:16That's it for today.

09:17So, hey, if you pacified your curiosity,

09:19then give the video a like and share it with your friends.

09:22Or, if you want more, just click on these videos

09:24and stay on the bright side!

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