Hydrates and the Bermuda Triangle

In 1992, the film "The Bermuda Triangle," broadcast by the British Channel 4, caused a sensation. It explained that the cause of disasters in the famous triangle was the rapid collapse of undersea hydrates. Ships were said to have sunk in a water-methane foam (comparable in density to air), and planes crashed due to turbulence. A few years later, after examining Lloyd's records (a British insurance agency - Ivellios), the filmmaker concluded that the Bermuda Triangle did not exist. According to statistics, the number of disasters that have occurred there is comparable to that of a water area with similar traffic intensity.

Is a catastrophe involving the collapse of a clathrate deposit and the loss of a ship's buoyancy in gas-saturated water possible? Theoretically, yes, but the last rapid decompression of the deposits occurred approximately 8,000 years ago, at a time when ocean levels were changing much faster than today. No seismic station has recorded explosive deposit collapse to date