Earthquake, island floods...?? Now this thing is 3.5 miles down but somehow hasn't been disturbed to the extent that you can still make out a perfect square, etc.? I mean, never say never, but it doesn't seem to add up??
I'm not a geologist, but it seems a little odd that something so cataclismic as to drop a land mass 3.5 miles would keep the geometry of the land untouched. Even if took place over years, those lines would get messed up. This is probably somebody at Google's idea of a joke, or an artifact from the stiching together of the images.
heh well...I use photoshop and other imaging programs extensively -- no artifacts would end up looking like that. ever. I don't know what that is, but this is interesting none the less.
It is not inconceivable that a land mass could have sunk rapidly like that. However, something THAT big would have caused tsunamis on every coastline on the planet, in which case, there should be some corroborating shards of historical record of some sort which could back up such an event. Heck, such a thing could have completely wiped out many coastal-dwelling societies.
You can't tell me this is a new discovery. Both the US and the Soviets extensively mapped the ocean floors so they could play Red October for 40+ years.
I don't buy that this is the fabled lost Atlantis but there have been city sized land masses that have dropped off into the ocean and near the Canary islands would make sense as one of the Canary Islands has a chunk of rock roughly the size of Manhattan that very well could drop off down into the ocean. http://geology.com/news/2005/09/atlantic-ocean-tsunami-threat.html Evidence shows that this has happened before around there and if it happens again could create a mega tsunami. Even without the mega tsunami parts of the big Island of Hawaii have been sloughing off into the ocean. I think it is very possible that there might've been an ancient civilization living on the Canary Islands or some other volcanic island in the Atlantic or Mediterranean that ended up getting sunk in some cataclysm. I'm skeptical though that such a cataclysm left a city outline so well preserved 3 and half miles down.
It's interesting to speculate how such a thing could occur. A lot of large oceanic islands have formed and risen up from the ocean floor through volcanic activity. As the outer layer of the crust rises to form the island, in some cases, rather than 'growing' (which would imply the rising is due strictly to adding mass on top of mass), the crust is merely 'expanding' (like a big bubble). And if the underlying volcano goes dormant, or seismic shifts cause the vents to relocate or seal up, then the cooling of the under layer can result in enormous hollow areas deep under the land mass. So then suppose that this particular city was established on an island in the Atlantic. Being volcanic, it would have been dominated by a central mountain, but would have had flatter habitable areas some distance from the mountain's center. Now an earthquake comes along, cracking the shell of this massive hollow landmass. I can see how an entire relatively flat area such as seen in the photo could simply settle straight down without much damage at all. Everything one day.. just.. sinks. Personally, I hope this is real, and we get to see over the next several years all kinds of underwater archeological discoveries. That far down, there would be practically no oxidation, and not much disturbance from anything trying to live there. That deep, it's just a big black tomb.
One might wonder why the entire ocean floor isn't then crisscrossed with those same lines. Hmmm... (Puts on tinfoil hat) Isn't that EXACTLY what the world's governments would say if we regular people were on the verge of possibly discovering their secret underwater alien base? Nothing to see here! It's just boat wakes! Shoo!
