Was Atlantis discovered off the coast of Africa?, the Telegraph asked. Too big and too regularly to natural origin to a, according to the tabloid the Sun. Almost exactly three years ago this big moment for all conspiracy theorists. The aviation engineer Bernie Bamford had a rectangular, mixed by straight lines marking on the bottom of the sea found through Google Ocean, Google Earth, extending several hundred kilometres northwest of the Canary Islands.
Three days later Google explained on the question in a blog entry, where the supposedly mysterious structures come from: there are traces of the ship. They arise when the water depth: a vessel shall be measured by sonar. Only the part of the seabed is mapped, which is located below the ship. The mysterious lines so just show how the ship has moves, which has measured this part of the ocean. In addition, measurement error that showed one to water depth: different one per cent of the area are apparently. Therefore, the grid lines fell out particularly striking. The American Oceanographic Agency (NOAA) added Google have superimposed simply the results of the measurements of ships. The model in Google Earth had been raised by this.
Apart from that, the figures against a sunken city speak: the flashy rectangle covers an area of more than 20,000 square kilometres, which corresponds to the size of the State of Hesse. For a whole island which is not much for a single city but already.
Real conspiracy theorists can be by statements made by scientists of course not brake itself. So was further believed that Google wants to cover something up. Finally, Atlantis experts according to the Telegraph had said that the body of one of the possible places, have meant the Plato when he described the sinking of Atlantis. Also traces of aliens were considered as Declaration of.
2012 there will be still an update.
Now, Google updated its maps and also the traces of the ship revised and corrected. With data from the Scripps Institute for Oceanography and other institutions in the past three years, students have thousands of mistakes in the first version of the Google Earth extension to ocean identified and corrected.
In the course of the year Google Ocean to be updated again this time with data of the satellite CryoSat-2. The appearance of the seabed should be then yet once twice as precise as it is today.
The tracks near the Canary Islands are to recognize when also considerably weakened by the way still exact look. The coordinates of that location in Google Earth and Google maps to find is to be 31 15'15 53N 24 15'30 53W.
