Volcano, meh. :^) Thanks BenLurkin.
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Posted on 10/17/2019 10:15:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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My son bought me the multi-DVD set, the James Bond Collection.
We’ve enjoyed watching them.
It’s funny how many Austin Powers/Dr. Evil spoofs we find in all the various Bond films!
Earf’ has an upset tummy.. bbbbrrrapppp..
I’ll do that when I pass wind in my bubble bath.
My late uncle was a British Master Mariner & Admiralty lawyer working for Lloyd’s Of London. I remember him talking about a weird claim that they contested of a ship being swallowed up by what was assumed to be a whirlpool (at sea? Hmmm....) off of the Aleutian Islands. Ya don’t suppose...
Would love to know the CO2 content of those bubble.
Those bubbles aren’t as big as the ones Michael Moore produces at bathtime...
Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2- about 85 times as potent by mass.
Volcano, meh. :^) Thanks BenLurkin.
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"As I heard it, a Ship sailing over an area like that would lose Buoyancy and sink."
Gas from methane hydrates on the offshore shelf of the Carolina sea bed are considered a possible explanation.
Somewhere along the Scottish coast is an area called the Witches cauldron, considered a dangerous area by local fishermen.
The sea bottom in this area contains methane producing peats. There would be a sudden large methane release from the peat, resulting something like boiling or seething on the ocean surface. The gas bubbles lowered the weight/mass of water so that any fishing boats at the surface now weighed more than the weight of an equal volume of gas/water beneath it. Boats would sink to the bottom and not be seen again. A hard end in a dangerous job!
Then again, perhaps there is something else going on!
(Seriously....who would give this sort of thing to a child to read!)
Either it is a volcano, or Godzilla ate a Taco Bell.
That was what came to my mind as well.
In the Bermuda Triangle story, they talked about how maybe CO2 gas bubbled up from the seafloor. That since a ship floats on the basis of the weight of the water it displaces being more than the weight of the ship, if the water weights a lot less, because it is full of gas bubbles, the ship will sink like a rock.
I would think that the gas bubbles from a volcano would also be a danger to ships in the area, especially small fishing ships.
While talking a lot about gas bubbles, the story does not even indicate the risk to ships.
True though he probably usually gets a sponge bath...
You probably know an order of magnitude more about buoyancy than the journalist.
Gonna need a standard for the burritos. I suggest Taco Bell bean burritos since there’s a Taco Bell most places.
I looked for the Witches Cauldron in Wikipedia and it shows only a Scotland inland double waterfall; or a Wales beach, https://www.visitpembrokeshire.com/explore-pembrokeshire/beaches/ceibwr-bay.
Do you remember another gassy cauldron?
another cause of global warming we can do nothing about. I rea last year there are 11,000 active volcanos in the pacific, some small fissures.
Can you imagine the water displacement rushing back to fill that void as well? A ship would drop right down through it, then the walls would slam shut. Horrible way to live your last few seconds on earth...
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