Looks like the new ocean floor details on Google Maps show something that looks man-made:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=31.480209,-24.120483&spn=2.988616,5.026245&t=h&z=8
Though Google is saying that this is an artifact of the method used to collect the sonar information. |
Daily Mail quotes a Google spokesman:
"In this case ... what users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process. Bathymetric (or sea-floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea-floor.
The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data. The fact that there are blank spots between each of these lines is a sign of how little we really know about the world's oceans." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1150846/Hopes-dashed-Google-Ocean-image-lost-city-Atlantis-proves-sort.html |
I'm sure that explanation is correct. If you zoom out and move the map to nearby islands (such as the Canary Islands) you will see similar lines between the islands, and on shipping routes away from the islands. If you look at a port like Cape Town you see the same kind of lines following the shipping lanes.
So this grid is an artifact of the mapping process. The interesting question is: why was this particular part of the ocean floor mapped in a detailed grid? Perhaps someone needed more detail because they were looking for oil or something. |
The source of this issue is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/4731313/Google-Ocean-Has-Atlantis-been-found-off-Africa.html
and Mr. Bernie Bamford, 38, spotted this in Chester, UK |
Take a look at the Gulf of Mexico. We know that there are hundreds of oil rigs there. Look at the how the mapping lines run. I only find faint squares in one area.
Joe |
HMMMMM. Must be the same boats did the Nazca Lines in Peru too. |
Thanks Moustafa for sharing! |
New information to this issue:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1200949
"On page 54 of the [Institute of Oceanographic Sciences] document is the following image of sonar tracks. Not all of the tracks show up on the GE bathymetry, but enough do to line things up very nicely for a match."
a .kmz file included too.
via http://www.nyteknik.se/popular_teknik/teknikrevyn/article524445.ece
See http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/15118/01/250.PDF [.PDF] too. |
You are all wrong. Atlantis is not in Atlantic ocean. Atlantis is in Switzerland waters. http://cocaman.ch/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/atlantis_in_switzerland.gif
(Cocaman powered http://cocaman.ch/wp/2007/06/i-have-found-atlantis/#comment-56632) |