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it's a huge arbitrary wodge of sea, and you sail through on the way to Central America from the North and Mid-Atlantic. Been through it 1/2 dozen times on the way to Belize. Nothing to sea but sea, sky, and seaweed.

What's so odd about the the Sargasso Sea?

My gap year in Borneo

@Taw

Ah. So you've been through the Triangle a half dozen times already?

That explains a lot!

@Zone

Nothing odd about it. Just that if you're silly enough to let it happen you could
get yourself mired up in all that kelp.

Edited by - Indy11 on 2/26/2004 10:27:29 AM

I've been told that it was a very big flying über cactus with cheese cake. Am i right?

the Sargasso Sea is a very strange phenomenon that is basically a vast floating "forest" of seaweed, if you like, and it stinks too. Its very big and is surrounded by the circulating waters of the Gulf Stream to the north and the Tropic of Cancer to the south, but itself its in the eye of the currents. Oddly it isn't afaik made by the currrents as such, the weed is native to that part of the ocean and is found nowhere else on earth, and is "trapped" there by the currents. The prevailing weather system is known as the Doldrums, or to past generations of sailors, the Horse Latitudes. The sea itself other than for the weed is relatively devoid of life, not many fish, lots of crabs n snails and stuff (imagine a dirty beach after the tide ahs just gone out and you've got it, exceot no beach) It has decieved many sailors inc luding I believe Columbus into thinking they were close to shore, in reality its a long long way to the American coast, also it seems because of the weed that the sea must be shallow there, in fact it's extremely deep!

lots and lots of tales of ships going missing there, long before Bermuda Triangle nonsense came about. It is very very bizarre to see when you fist see it, but no more bizarre imho than many other natural sights and phenomena. from the air it looks like land, apparently, thus explaining why aircraft got lost (again no aliens necessary) Also the weed can foul propellors on smaller vessels.

it's really not a very interesting place really, unless you're a marine scientist, or a ufo loony, or have a seaweed fetish.

@Ed, ha ha ha i didn't see that one coming, oh no



Edited by - Tawakalna on 2/26/2004 12:05:59 PM

It all has logical explanations. No mysteries here, folks. Move along now.

Is there anywhere that you haven't been, Taw? How about Aus.? Have you been there? If not, why not?

Your all wrong its a fleet of rheinland fighters with cloaking devices that fly pirating runs along their patrol triangle.

never got round to it, Esq. I'll prob take the tribe there in a few years, it's on the list after New York, Japan, Canadia and Russia. Always wanted to go to Aus meself, great diving.

The answer is simple: The Federated States Of Micronesia have a massive underwater submarine there that they have equipped with an EMP gun that stops their victims from escaping. The reason they don't sink every ship that travels through is because they only attack people who either come from New Zealand or are somehow connected with it. They've been at a secret war with NZ for almost a century and they're trying to end it all in a massive submarine strike. Don't tell anyone I told you.

-OFFICIAL AGENT OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA-

Edited by - Corsair#01 on 2/27/2004 3:11:56 PM

And here I thought the mystery was solved. A lot of people get lost because they don't know how to navigate when they go in looking to see what all the mystery is about. That makes it a self-perpetuating mystery.

Taw - You've never been to Aus.?!?! What kind of traveller are you? Don't you want to visit our nice little penal colony?

I think that the bermuda triangle is a strange magnetic pulse-thingy that just vaporizes everything. Actually I'm not sure what it is.

@Esq - I'm not a traveler, but I sure would want to go to Australia if I could. That is, if I could afford it.

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