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Location of MEGA

admin — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:11:48 GMT

Location of MEGA

According to information on a Website owned by the Cuban Museum of Natural History, this Google image shows approximately where MEGA was discovered in the summer of 2000 by Paulina Zelitsky, Paul Weinzweig, Dr. Manuel Iturralde and other members of Exploramar. For more info, see http://www.cuba.cu/historia_natural/exmari.htm.

Thermohaline Circulation

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:27:26 GMT

Thermohaline Circulation

The global conveyor belt (thermohaline circulation) is driven primarily by the formation and sinking of deep water (from around 1500m to the Antarctic bottom water overlying the bottom of the ocean) in the Norwegian Sea. This circulation is thought to be responsible for the large flow of upper ocean water from the tropical Pacific to the Indian Ocean through the Indonesian Archipelogo. The two counteracting forcings operating in the North Atlantic control the conveyor belt circulation: (1) the thermal forcing (high-latitude cooling and the low-latitude heating) which drives a polar southward flow; and (2) haline forcing (net high-latitude freshwater gain and low-latitude evaporation) which moves in the opposite direction. In today's Atlantic the thermal forcing dominates, hence, the flow of upper current from south to north. When the strength of the haline forcing increases due to excess precipitation, runoff, or ice melt the conveyor belt will weaken or even shut down.

Sea Level Rise (cm/century)

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:37:45 GMT

Sea Level Rise (cm/century)

This graph depicts the rate of sea level rise (not the actual depth) in centimeters per century over the past 20,000 years. Except for just the last few years (extreme right side), the seas have been experiencing a nearly constant and very gradual rise since about 1,000 B.C. Compare that to the dramatic events of 8,000 B.C and 10,500 B.C. and you begin to understand how ancient civilizations could have literally disappeared off the face of the earth.

Yonaguni Monument

admin — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:10:59 GMT

Yonaguni Monument

Photo by Danielle Caceres-Bricheno and used with permission. More of Danielle's photos are available online at http://www.pbase.com/the_underwater_world/yonaguni.

2007 Expeditions to the Bahamas

admin — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:51:43 GMT

2007 Expeditions to the Bahamas

This map shows the primary locations visited by Drs. Greg and Lora Little and their team on several 2007 expeditions. These sites are discussed in the blog entries titled New Discoveries in the Bahamas (Parts 1,2 & 3)

Small block from Joulter's Wall

admin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:46:19 GMT

Small block from Joulter's Wall

Dr. Greg Little holding a block from the underwater wall discovered 7 miles north of Bimini on a feature called Joulter's Wall.

Sea Level Rise

admin — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:50:21 GMT

Sea Level Rise

Changes in the sea level since the end of the last glacial episode. Note that in the most recent 8,000 years the rise has been at the slowest rate, amounting to less than 15 feet. This means two things: (1) megalithic structures found more than 15 feet below the surface are probably more than 8,000 years old and (2) traditional archaeology's claims about the age of the earliest human civilizations fails to consider the most dramatic period in recent geological history. Graph from Wikipedia.org, topic = "sea level rise"

Coastline Animation

admin — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:19:55 GMT

Coastline Animation

This animation shows where the coastline might have been 20,000 years ago. View at 'Original Size' to see the animation.

Linear Anomalies

admin — Wed, 10 May 2006 16:41:19 GMT

Linear Anomalies

This graphic shows the locations of 5 newly discovered "linear anonamly" sites - 4 in the coastal waters of Cuba and 1 just off the tip of the Florida Keys. The insets are courtesey of Satellite Discoveries (http://www.satellitediscoveries.com) and are used with permission.

Caribbean Map

admin — Wed, 10 May 2006 16:48:02 GMT

Caribbean Map

This map shows approximately what the Caribbean would have looked like 10,000 years ago, when the oceans of Earth were 300 feet (100 m) lower than they are today. As the last Ice Age came to an end, the melting polar ice caused the water to rise and submerge many costal areas.