The Bermuda Triangle mystery may be solved, at least according to one magnetic expert who said in a recent British documentary that the area is basically a magnetic underwater volcano, The Mirror reported Thursday.
Nick Hutchings, a minerals prospector, told Channel 5's "Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle" that there are no aliens or hidden whirlpools in the region, but plenty of magnetic rocks.
"Bermuda's basically a sea mountain — it's an underwater volcano," Hutchings said in the documentary, according to The Mirror. "Thirty million years ago, it was sticking up above sea level. It has now eroded away, and we're left with the top of a volcano."
"We have a few core samples, which have magnetite in them. It's the most magnetic naturally occurring material on Earth," he continued.
The so-called Bermuda Triangle is a section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have unexplicably disappeared over the years, according to History.com.
There have been claims of boats and planes vanishing in the region in good weather conditions without even radioing distress messages, leading to urban legend theories about the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.
In the documentary, Hutchings conducts an experiment using some rocks and a compass, according to The Mirror. When a rock was placed on a flat surface and the compass was moved over it, the needle "went crazy," according to the publication, because it contained magnetite.
"You can just imagine the ancient mariners sailing past Bermuda," Hutchings says in the documentary. "It would be very disconcerting."
In another documentary, reported on by The Sun Thursday, experts at the University of Southampton said the Bermuda Triangle mystery can be explained by "rogue waves" up to 100 feet high.
Simon Boxall, an ocean and earth scientist, says in the documentary "The Bermuda Triangle Enigma" that the Atlantic Ocean region can see three massive storms coming together from different directions, making the conditions perfect for such rogue waves.
The U.S. Coast Guard says on its website, though, that there is nothing mysterious about the region.
"The Coast Guard does not recognize the existence of the so-called Bermuda Triangle as a geographic area of specific hazard to ships or planes," the agency stated. "In a review of many aircraft and vessel losses in the area over the years, there has been nothing discovered that would indicate that casualties were the result of anything other than physical causes. No extraordinary factors have ever been identified."
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