世界上的报刊有时报导一些海上船舶和飞机神秘的不知去向的消息。对这种情况做出的解释或提出的一些假说都多少含有一些切合实际的成份。不久前,美国石油开采公司的研究员、地球物理学家理查德·德·马基维德在《美国地质学家—石油科学家协会通报》一篇文章中提出了自己对这些神秘事件的解释。他声称这些事件是由一种有毒的水化气体所引起的。 Newspapers and magazines in the world sometimes report some mysterious, unknown fate of some ships and planes on the sea. Some explanations for the situation or some of the hypotheses put forward contain somewhat realistic elements. Not long ago Richard Geoffrey, a geophysicist and researcher at American Petroleum Exploration Company, put forward his own interpretation of these mysterious events in an article written by the American Association of Geologists - Petroleum Scientists. He claimed that the events were caused by a poisonous hydration gas.