Bubbles in Bermuda. Can Gas Bubbles Sink a Ship? Dayle Wilnechenko and Anna Ishkanian Burnaby South Secondary Floor Location: J34V

The Bermuda triangle is located in the Atlantic Ocean in the middle of Miami, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Bermuda. In this part of the ocean, ships have been known to go missing and there is no answer to what has happened to them. We think it is from methane hydrates in the bottom of the ocean floor. When the tectonic plates move, the methane gas is released and creates bubbles, which reduce the density and buoyancy of the water. Our purpose of this experiment was to see if gas bubbles really could sink a ship. We wanted to choice this experiment because the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle intrigued us, and so we decided to fond our own theory of were these ships have vanished to.

Our hypothesis is if methane gas is released from the ocean floor, then the bubbles created reduce the density and buoyancy of the water and ships will sink to the ocean floor.

Variable: Bubbles

We used several materials that affected the way the air came out into the water.

We did 5 tests
1. 1 pipes
2. 2 pipes
3. 3 pipes
4. 3 pipes mesh
5. rocks covering 3 pipes

Control: Our control is the bucket and the boat. We wanted to see how long the boat would take to sink without the bubbles so we put weigh in it to see how heavy it would have to be.

With more time this experiment could have been done on a bigger scale so the boat didn't hit off the sides of the storage container, we could also have gotten a metal boat as it would have been a better replica of an actual ship. It can lead to solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle and more discoveries of this Earth.