On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:27 PM,
<ShellyDalg@aol.com> wrote:
I saw a documentary about methane bubbling to the surface near Santa
Barbara. A guy in a dinghy was out there and the sea was a mass of bubbles. The
documentary was relating how buoyancy was affected for ships when they encounter
large areas of bubbles. I remember seeing where in some areas frozen methane is
sitting on the bottom under extreme pressure and occasionally it would break off
and float up. Once the depth became shallow enough for it to gasify it would
expand rapidly into methane bubbles and could sink large ships due to the
decreased buoyancy of the ships sailing through all the rising bubbles.
It was conveyed as a possible solution to some of the disappearances in the
Bermuda Triangle.
Maybe........ I dunno.
Frank D.