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Old 02-20-2009, 04:00 PM   #1
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Default Google Earth Causes Confusion Over Lost Atlantis City

http://www.itproportal.com/portal/ne...atlantis-city/

The new feature on Google Earth that allows the oceanic depths to be scanned has revealed what some have already called the true location of the legendary lost city of Atlantis.

The Sun newspaper reports that Aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford of Chester was puzzled by a grid-like structure that he spotted on the ocean floor, more than 5.5km below the surface, and is about the size of Wales.

The underwater image can be viewed at the co-ordinates 31 15'15.53N 24 15'30.53W and coincide with the folkloric location of the lost Continent; in an area 1000 Km off the cost of west Africa in a region called "The Madeira Abyssal Plane".

Google has already dismissed the findings as being an artifact of the data collection process, arguing that the perfect lines were drawn by the path of boats that carry the sonar equipments.

The data collected by Google Ocean is in theory much less reliable than the satellite pictures of Google Maps which have a resolution of 43cm (18 inches).

Google Ocean is available through Google Earth and allows people to plunge beneath the sea and literally swim around, navigating around mountains and above shipwrecks.
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Old 02-20-2009, 10:16 PM   #2
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Default Re: Google Earth Causes Confusion Over Lost Atlantis City

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvi..._Google_Earth/

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle2255989.ece
Is this Atlantis?

Written by the video poster:

HIS is the amazing image which could show the fabled sunken city of Atlantis.

It shows a perfect rectangle the size of Wales lying on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean nearly 3½ miles down.

A host of criss-crossing lines, looking like a map of a vast metropolis, are enclosed by the boundary. They seem too vast and organised to be caused naturally.

And last night the possibility of an extraordinary discovery had oceanographers and geophysicists captivated. The site lies 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands — a location for Atlantis seemingly suggested by the ancient philosopher Plato.

He believed it was an island civilisation sunk by an earthquake and floods around 9,700BC — nearly 12,000 years ago.

The “grid” showed up on Google Ocean, a Google Earth extension that uses a combination of satellite images and marine surveys.

Last night Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University — and one of the world’s leading authorities on Atlantis — called it “fascinating”.

He said: “The site is one of the most prominent places for the proposed location of Atlantis, as described by Plato. Even if it turns out to be geographical, this definitely deserves a closer look.”

The legend of Atlantis has captured the imagination of scholars for centuries.

And in the 1970s it spawned a hit TV series, Man From Atlantis, in which Patrick Duffy played a webbed hero who could live underwater. Situated in an area called the Madeira Abyssal Plane, the grid was spotted by aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford as he browsed through Google Ocean. Bernie, 38, of Chester, said: “It looks like an aerial map of Milton Keynes. It must be man-made.”

Google today claimed the criss-crossing lines were sonar data collected as boats mapped the ocean floor.

But the internet giant said “blank spots” within the lines could not be explained.

A spokeswoman said: “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.” THIS exciting discovery on Google Ocean backs up the theories about Atlantis I outlined in my dialogues Timaeus and Critias back in 350BC.
Plato ... theory

Plato ... theory

I described a “dense wall” surrounding the great city, which is just like the rectangular perimeter of the seabed image.

And I told of a complex network of streets and buildings — again similar to the grid in the picture.

I learned about Atlantis from Egyptian priests, whose records of the lost civilisation were scrawled in their ancient temples.

I said it was located in the “real sea”. Some scholars have interpreted this as a reference to the Atlantic. Others think it’s the Mediterranean. But I’m not letting on just yet.
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