Another Google Ocean Atlantis found? Telegraph UK paper

[Ichingcarpenter]

And now for something completely different


I guess some remember the last one someone found a few years back off of Spain on Google Ocean now this one is off of Africa and the Canary Islands.

Google Ocean: Has Atlantis been found off Africa?

By Matthew Moore 7:18AM GMT 20 Feb 2009
The Telegraph.


The network of criss-cross lines is 620 miles off the coast of north west Africa near the Canary Islands on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
The perfect rectangle – which is around the size of Wales – was noticed on the search giant's underwater exploration tool by an aeronautical engineer who claims it looks like an "aerial map" of a city.
The underwater image can be found at the co-ordinates 31 15'15.53N 24 15'30.53W.


Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University told The Sun that the find was fascinating and warranted further inspection.

"The site is one of the most prominent places for the proposed location of Atlantis, as described by Plato," the Atlantis expert said. "Even if it turns out to be geographical, it definitely deserves a closer look."
Bernie Bamford, 38, of Chester who spotted the "city", compared it to the plan of Milton Keynes, the Buckinghamshire town built on a grid design. "It must be man made," he said.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/4731313/Google-Ocean-Has-Atlantis-been-found-off-Africa.html

Maps and photos at the site with a slideshow

[Ian David]

1. These things are natural. Fascinating and beautiful, but natural.

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4220

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. I looked at this one vs the last one

and this one is a little different than the normal pixilation.
I still think it is a distortion.

I really thought that a professor from a top university would ever comment
on this story but he did...
I just this story on my RSS feed

Now back to the revolution in Egypt where the Atlantans settled.......LOL

[petronius]

3. The date on the article is two years ago - isn't this also "the last one"?

The followup describes it as scan lines from the sonar vessel - I guess the images didn't mosaic correctly or something...

[DavidDvorkin]

4. How can Atlantis be found if it never existed?

[alfredo]

5. As a later article stated the grid is boat mapping lines.

The ocean floor maps are made using sonor data. Occasionally artifacts happen.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/4735057/Google-Ocean-Atlantis-found-off-Africa-turns-out-to-be-boat-mapping-lines.html