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bermuda triangle (media.piefed.social)
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[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 85 points 1 month ago

If I’m not mistaken, the whole myth rose from an incident with a pilot using land navigation, got one cluster of islands confused with another, which caused him to set an incorrect course and ended up getting lost at sea.

Ay least that’s my understanding. Now let’s talk about the real danger: quicksand.

[-] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago

Not to make too fine a point of it, but quicksand is relatively rare in the Bermuda Triangle. Unless it is a very watered down version of course, but that’s outside my comfort zone.

[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

New fear unlocked: The Bermuda Quicksand!

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

Quicksand is hella rare everywhere. As a kid i feared it hard and knowing how to escape it was absolutely survival-critical knowledge.

I have never once been anywhere even near it.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago
[-] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Hmm you might be onto something here

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I suppose there’s also the really wet sand, on the ocean floor. I don’t think it gets much more wet than that. Not sure how quick it is though. But presumably if you are stuck in that sand, then you have already endured a series of arguably less desirable circumstances.

[-] quantumvoid0@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

beaches are huge traps set by government to trap people

[-] Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Or the real danger for kids: you can be abused by the President of the usa but there never will be any repercussions

[-] LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

As I understand, the number of incidents was no worse than other travel areas. Just that the Bermuda triangle is such a heavily traveled area, meaning more incidents

[-] kevin2107@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Scooby doo enforced it for me

[-] daggermoon@piefed.world 1 points 1 month ago

As I understand quicksand is only dangerous because people get stuck and can't get out. People don't sink in quicksand. You actually can get out all by yourself.

[-] SouthEndSunset@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I always felt like sinking mud didn’t get the attention it deserved.

[-] Catalyst_A@quokk.au 48 points 1 month ago

When I was in 4th grade I thought the Bermuda triangle would be a way bigger problem for me than it actually turned out to be.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 23 points 1 month ago

Also, being on fire. The way they pushed, "stop, drop, and roll" so hard, I presumed that being on fire was a routine part of life.

[-] Catalyst_A@quokk.au 6 points 1 month ago
[-] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

That one I think was basically a late response to all the ways folks used to kinda find themselves on fire.

Advent and proliferation of gas stoves, cigarettes, and cool new "space-age" (hyper-flammable) building and textile materials. Probably lotsa extra reasons and compounding factors, too, frankly there was (and is) a lot to figure out lol.

You might even have found yourself on fire back then, too!

[-] fitjazz@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago
[-] Catalyst_A@quokk.au 3 points 1 month ago

I for sure thought quicksand would happen! With all those sandboxes and shit?

[-] wieson@feddit.org 27 points 1 month ago

The spirits evaporated through the hole in the ozone layer.

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

The worst part about this is i have absolutely no solid proof that that's wrong.

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago

Navigation and tracking have improved since 1970.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Wait til you hear about The Great Lakes Triangle. Much nastier than the Bermuda one.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

They say if you sail too far you could accidentally find yourself in the USA 🤢

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Dude don't scare people

[-] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee..

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 15 points 1 month ago

Survivorship bias. The map only shows those that haven't disappeared, doh.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago

Did this mysteriously align with the increasingly prevalent use of gps technology?

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Nah, it was never a particularly dangerous place. There were just a couple of accidents there that became famous.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

That’s a bit of an understatement. There were books and movies and documentaries on this.

One documentary suggested there could be some kind of gas (like CO2) leaking from the ocean floor, which floated to the surface and affected the buoyancy of ships, causing them to sink. It also rose into the air and made airplanes not fly. So maybe it was also helium or something.

I’m surprised the billionaire pancake Ocean Gate guy didn’t take his fiberglass submersible down in that area to find all these sunken ships and airplanes.

[-] Tacky4092@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Methane you funky bitch

[-] Hegar@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

It's not true though, so it doesn't need an explination

There was never actually any indication that more ships or planes went missing there, because they don't. It was just nonsense.

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

All the blips you’re not seeing have disappeared.

[-] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unfortunately they had to shut down the Bermuda Triangle due to austerity.

[-] roserose56@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] YabbaDabbaDipshit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

The bermuda beast was shot by the police in 1976

[-] BeardededSquidward 3 points 1 month ago

Think I saw research that shows there was a lot of methane deposits underneath that area and so low flying craft as well as ships would find density of the air as well water changing so much they plummet.

[-] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A few years from now I'll think for a moment, combine a few memories, and tell someone that I heard on pretty good authority that something to do with collected cow farts, arriving right there in the Bermuda Triangle, caused ships and planes to rock around violently.

By which I mean, thank you, for the confused glares from strangers, somewhere in my future.

[-] BeardededSquidward 2 points 1 month ago

Doing more research on it and apparently the methane argument may not hold true. Though the information is this year of what they're finding so it may take a while to manifest into publications.

[-] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Is it just you? If you're lost, how are you posting this?

[-] other_cat@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago
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