Can gas bubbles sink ships? - Bermuda Triangle - BBC

A team of marine experts conduct an experiement to see if gas bubbles can sink ships. Great video from BBC show Bermuda Triangle. Watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Worldwide YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcworldwide

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[rdwilliams75]

What a farce of an experiment. It took them several moments to sink an unmanned boat, that was held by lines to keep it from floating out of the area on it's own. The sinking of the boat had NOTHING to do with the buoyancy of the water being less...you notice what sunk the boat was the water being pushed up and over the back of the boat, filling it with water. On a large ocean going vessel you would NOT get this effect as they are designed to travel through turbulent water.

[BayerMcquenzie]

this experiment is damn stupid!! they are so desperate for the result and they are lying to themselves !!

[CeltZon]

Well a huge ship won't sink by those bubbles :P

[Gencturk92]

@Shrubbs maybe the pilot couldn't fly the plane properly

[Shrubbs]

So how does this explain the planes that disappeared overhead? Why did so many disappear then? Yes planes sometimes go down, but there's so many that "went down' in that region, so why is that?

[TheCoolGirl302]

I dont think that gas bubble can sink the missing boat in the Bermuda Triangle. Just think that if that temper gas is dangerous, of course the missing boat can escape because the boat in this youtube has no one control the boat but the missing boat has a leader and can escape. So how the missing boat gone ????? :/

[ThiXtreme1]

MY gas bubbles can sink a blue whale. LOL

[ListenWithNogarD]

@rdwilliams75  Methane and other gas bubbles released from the ocean floor can be Over a mile wide. What if that hits a ship?

[PowerTheQwerty]

i went sea kayaking and ended up in a place where air was bubbling up, my boat was so unstable i almost shit myself!

[dew02005]

I woudlnt 'snap instantly', would it.. they travel over 40ft waves without snapping.

[wasilladan]

@rdwilliams75

the experiment is flawed, what you must also understand, is that they have no way to properly reproduce the ammount of GAS, not air, that can be released from underwater sites, most of these releases are either volcanic or from earthquakes relieving pressures trapped from thousands of feet down, ive seen first hand what kind of pressures are associated with geophysics, furthermore, the air they used wasnt deep enough, therefore it was unable to factor in expansion or displacement

[Truthguy73]

...Now go get that boat out of my ocean you arrogant disinformation spreading, littering pricks!!!

-Earth