New fear unlocked: The Bermuda Quicksand!

Quicksand is hella rare everywhere. As a kid i feared it hard and knowing how to escape it was absolutely survival-critical knowledge.

I have never once been anywhere even near it.

Are those called beaches?

That, and it’s an area prone to hurricanes.

So true!

That one I think was basically a late response to all the ways folks used to kinda find themselves on fire.

Advent and proliferation of gas stoves, cigarettes, and cool new "space-age" (hyper-flammable) building and textile materials. Probably lotsa extra reasons and compounding factors, too, frankly there was (and is) a lot to figure out lol.

You might even have found yourself on fire back then, too!

I for sure thought quicksand would happen! With all those sandboxes and shit?

Dude don't scare people

That’s a bit of an understatement. There were books and movies and documentaries on this.

One documentary suggested there could be some kind of gas (like CO2) leaking from the ocean floor, which floated to the surface and affected the buoyancy of ships, causing them to sink. It also rose into the air and made airplanes not fly. So maybe it was also helium or something.

I’m surprised the billionaire pancake Ocean Gate guy didn’t take his fiberglass submersible down in that area to find all these sunken ships and airplanes.

They prefer the term three-sided polygon.

Basically.

Doing more research on it and apparently the methane argument may not hold true. Though the information is this year of what they're finding so it may take a while to manifest into publications.