Aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford has spotted what he thinks is the ancient lost city of Atlantis as he browsed Google Ocean.
Near to the Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa he’s spotted a suspiciously rectangular grid the size of Wales on the sea bed, which does indeed look rather like a plan for the British ‘new town’ of Milton Keynes.
Atlantis was referred to by Greek philosopher Plato and scientists have been looking for it ever since. Apparently it was destroyed in a natural calamity, which might well have been the eruption of a ’super volcano’ and the resulting tsunami giant wave.
The volcanic islands of the Canaries would be just the spot and this finding, if indeed that’s what it is, reminds us that another such disaster is in the wings.
There’s a super volcano called Cumbra Vieja bubbling away under La Palma, which might go off any minute.
When it does a ginormous chunk of La Palma will topple into the Atlantic, setting off a tsunami which will engulf the coasts of north west Africa (which could do with the water I suppose) and the western seaboard of the United States (which has seen quite enough of the stuff recently).
Lots of southern England could be immersed as well, even though the tide would drive the main waves west.
Just a thought.
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National Geographic (September 19, 2007) - Japan’s Ancient Underwater “Pyramid” Mystifies Scholars - Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis—an ancient city sunk… Each time he returns to the dive boat, Kimura said, he is more convinced than ever that below him rest the remains of a 5,000-year-old city:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2009/01/national-geographic-japans-ancient.html
Thanks for the link. Just to note:
- Cumbre Vieja is not a super volcano, its a volcanic ridge
- it is not going off any minute
- the bisection of La Palma may or may not ever fully occur, and even if it does, it may or may not happen catastrophically, as in during a single event
- the wave would, of course, hit the east coast of the U.S., not the west
if it hits the WESTERN US coast, I’ll be very surprised!! Eastern, perhaps.
I DID NOT HEAR THAT CUMBRA VIEJA IS BUBBLING. THE HISTORY CHANNEL HAS TWICE OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS SHOWED THE SLIPPAGE BETWEEN THE TWO PARTS OF LA-PALMA, FOUR FEET IN TWO YEARS. IT IS QUITE SCARY. A 200 STORY HIGH WALL OF WATER TO HIT THE US EAST COAST AT 500 MPH AND AT LEAST FIVE OF THOSE WAVES 100 to 200 MILES IN LENGTH. OUCH….! ! ! HOWIEEE FLORIDA.
HEY GUY , YOU SHOULD ONLY WRITE WHEN YOU ARE SOBER.. YOU MUST KNOW EAST FROM WEST, I HOPE.
THERE IS NO BUBLING ON LA PALMA YET. SO KEEP OFF THE BUBBLY. JUST LET ME KNOW WHEN SHE’S READY TO RUMBLE SO I CAN CLIMB THE UP THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN.
HOW NOW