Bubblologst?

I went to the science museum and saw a bubbleologist.

He blew these incredible bubbles - bubbles that would enclose a person, square bubbles, spinning bubbles - and explained the science behind them.

He has a web site - I found a great bubble recipe there. I'll see if I can find it for you.

I found a lot of sites for Tom Noddy, a bubble blower but his recipe wasn't the same one that I made so I think that I saw a different bubble blower.

Anyway.......

It's pretty cool what they can do.

sounds cool. but the title of the show that the "bubblologist" was on was about the burmuda triangle. so i dont think he was a bubble blower..... maybe this will help the wheels turn...

Some people postulate that the strange losses of ships and aircraft in the Bermuda Triangle are the result of large bubbles of gas rising from the seabed when the rock cannot contain them any longer. The bubbles are thought to be big enough to enclose a boat, which falls into the hole in the water. The water then closes back in and sinks the boat. Aircraft suffer engine failure and loss of lift when the gas bubble rises through the air. Maybe that's the line your bubbly man was pursuing.

hm that sounds like it could be the one.. thanks Ewood

bubblologist
The gentleman was a self proclaimed bubblologist. It was his job to measure the size bubbles of methane gas it would take to explode a ship and how to simulate the incident.
I was trying to find info on it through discovery.com and was unable to.

Almost right but not quite.

The bubbles don't need to be big enough to enclose a vessel.
All they need to do is be small and plentiful enough to reduce the density of the water enough so that the ship basically falls through the highly aerated (methaneated) water to it's doom when the sea closes over the top of it.

You can try it in the bath if you like.
Take the shower head and pipe off the top of the taps (if you have that setup) and fill the bath up.
Get yourself a wee wooden boat, put the shower head about a foot under the boat pointing upwards and then blow hard down the tube.
You'll get loads and loads of wee bubbles of air out of the shower head under the boat and the boat will become extremely unstable and sink by halves or sink completely.

You could replace the air with methane but I wouldn't like to suggest a source or be responsible for the consequences if you do.