Scientist claims to have natural explanation for mystery of Bermuda Triangle

A scientist claimed to solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, which has been the site of shipwrecks, plane crashes, and paranormal sights for more than 500 years.

Dr. Simon Boxall, an oceanographer from the University of Southampton, contends that the loosely defined geographic region in the Atlantic Ocean — which has long been the subject of supernatural speculation — has been plagued by a natural, but extreme, phenomenon.

Massive man-eating “rogue waves” around 100-feet high that form from the conjoining of storms in the region have swallowed up ships — sometimes breaking them clean in half — and wiped away the evidence by their sheer force, Boxall told outlets.

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

“So you end up with, rather than a 10-meter wave, a 20-meter wave. If you get three different wave systems coming together, you can get a 30-meter wave,” Boxall told the Daily Mail, of the nearly 100-foot high waves.

“Something like a supertanker or a big cargo vessel” can be destroyed by one of these rogue wave systems,” Boxall claimed.

To prove the point, Boxall and his team recreated the wreck of the USS Cyclops, an aircraft carrier that disappeared while sailing through the so-called Devil’s Triangle in 1918 — wiping out all 309 passengers without a trace.

“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,” Boxall claimed.

In the recreation, the steep walls of the “rogue waves” buoy the ship on port and stern so severely that the ship’s bottom is suspended in air.

The force of that pressure on the ship causes the collapse and rapid submersion of the vessel, claimed the oceanographer.

Boxall also argued that the waves can account for the roughly 20 planes which have disappeared while flying through the region, including a 1945 Navy bomber training mission which saw the loss of a rescue plane.

“People will ignore facts and figures all the time,” Boxall told the Mail. “We have real problems in trying to persuade people once they’re determined.”

The Bermuda Triangle, an unofficial designation for the area between Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Miami, has been an area of intense speculation since the time of Christopher Columbus’ crossing of the ocean blue.

In 1492, Columbus noted in his journal that he and his crew observed “strange dancing lights on the horizon” and reported bizarre compass bearings in the area.

Though hundreds have perished in accidents in the area, one man claims to have survived a supernatural experience during a flight in 1970.

Pilot Bruce Gernon, flying a single-engine Beechraft Bonanza, claimed to have passed through a strange fog while flying from the Bahamas to Florida.

The pilot, and vocal proponent of supernatural theories, claimed to have flown through a “worm hole” while passing through the mysterious airspace.