Scientists claim to have solved the Bermuda Triangle mystery

map of bermuda triangle in and atlantic ocean

Scientists believe they have solved the deadly secret in the infamous Bermuda Triangle, an area which has claimed hundreds of lives over time.

And while it’s nothing supernatural as we had expected, their proposed reason still makes our stomachs churn.

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As per The Sun, Experts at the University of Southhampton in the UK, believe the reason so many boats have sunk there is because of 30-metre ‘rogue waves’.

The body of water stretches 700,000 kilometres in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean, between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, hence its title as a ‘triangle’.

The area is also known as the Devil’s Triangle, featuring multiple shipping lanes and ultimately claiming over 1,000 lives in the past century.

The British scientists recreated the wave surges using indoor simulators, as appeared in the documentary The Bermuda Triangle Enigma.

The team built a model of the USS Cyclops, which went missing in The Bermuda Triangle in 1918 claiming 300 lives, and the model was quickly overcome by water in the simulation.

Rogue waves only last for a few minutes, and are created when three storms collide.

According to News.com, Dr Simon Boxall, an ocean and earth scientist, said the infamous area could see three massive storms come together from different directions, consequently creating the perfect conditions for a rogue wave.

The surge in water could even snap a boat, such as the Cyclops, in two.

“There are storms to the south and north, which come together, and if there are additional ones from Florida, it can be a potentially deadly formation of rogue waves,” Dr Boxall said.

“They are steep, they are high — we’ve measured waves in excess of 30m. The bigger the boat gets, the more damage is done.

“If you can imagine a rogue wave with peaks at either end, there’s nothing below the boat, so it snaps in two.

“If it happens, it can sink in two to three minutes.”

And while this sounds like a reasonable explanation for why so many people have gone missing in these waters, tales and legends of the Bermuda Triangle will most likely continue to exist.

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