Primeval Underwater Forest Discovered in Gulf of Mexico

[WildMage]

Now here is a little something that coincides with Plato's Atlantis and potential world wide flood 50K years ago and 60 ft of water. Then again there are times I wonder where did all the water go to, if certain hypothesis are correct 1. being this was an ocean world, and 2. the entire world was once covered in ice.

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Scuba divers have discovered a primeval underwater forest off the coast of Alabama.

The Bald Cypress forest was buried under ocean sediments, protected in an oxygen-free environment for more than 50,000 years, but was likely uncovered by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said Ben Raines, one of the first divers to explore the underwater forest and the executive director of the nonprofit Weeks Bay Foundation, which researches estuaries.

The forest contains trees so well-preserved that when they are cut, they still smell like fresh Cypress sap, Raines said.

The stumps of the Cypress trees span an area of at least 0.5 square miles (1.3 square kilometers), several miles from the coast of Mobile, Ala., and sit about 60 feet (18 meters) below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

Despite its discovery only recently, the underwater landscape has just a few years to be explored, before wood-burrowing marine animals destroy the ancient forest. [8 of the World's Most Endangered Places]

Closely guarded secret

Raines was talking with a friend who owned a dive shop about a year after Hurricane Katrina. The dive shop owner confided that a local fisherman had found a site teeming with fish and wildlife and suspected that something big was hidden below. The diver went down to explore and found a forest of trees, then told Raines about his stunning find.

http://www.livescience.com/37977-underwater-cypress-forest-discovered.html

[southerncross]

Considering that the planet is predisposed to lengthy glacial periods it is no wonder that these things exist in the ocean. Our deep history is no doubt at the sea floor. They keys are there. It's just accessing them. Living in an interglacial period is nice with warmer climate but it puts a damper on exploration. Interesting find.

[WildMage]

Considering that the planet is predisposed to lengthy glacial periods it is no wonder that these things exist in the ocean. Our deep history is no doubt at the sea floor. They keys are there. It's just accessing them. Living in an interglacial period is nice with warmer climate but it puts a damper on exploration. Interesting find.

It would not surprise me to discover USO's belong to a race of hominids, which lived thru one of the warming periods, and for whatever reason moved to ocean. An alternate being this is the race from which modern man evolved, perhaps leaving the oceans for a life on land. A civilization many millions of years old vs. our own 50,000 years of civilization. Just from a technological perspective this race should be capable of many of the things we see and deem as having to come from an off world source. Part of this too, in my own mind is the reason why the world Navies are so tightly integrated into this phenomenon. The Navy knows something, and may very well have had and possibly has continuing contact with this race/species. The oceans would provide a long term stable environment for any civilization looking to get away from planetary catastrophes or major shifts in climate, magnetic fields, and/or solar activity.

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[majicbar]

During peak glaciation the sea level was 350 feet below what it is today. Refilling the ocean basins and the various great lakes around the World took place in stages with the last major stages around 12,000, 8000 and 6,000 years before the present. The history of man must account for these changes as the bulk of human population exists within a zone up to 100 feet above sea level. Humankind has been on the move through most of our modern evolution in the period of late glaciation and up until the present day.

[WildMage]

During peak glaciation the sea level was 350 feet below what it is today. Refilling the ocean basins and the various great lakes around the World took place in stages with the last major stages around 12,000, 8000 and 6,000 years before the present. The history of man must account for these changes as the bulk of human population exists within a zone up to 100 feet above sea level. Humankind has been on the move through most of our modern evolution in the period of late glaciation and up until the present day.

Well per DNA records, or at least one of the hypothesis is a bottleneck occurred where population levels plunged to near extinction levels. They blame it on a volcano, perhaps ice cores line up to such an event. Would it coincide with the destruction of an advance civilization preceding our? Would enough material be ejected or other related side event cause massive flooding or break a land bridge releasing large amounts of water. i.e. the creation of the black sea or Mediterranean. Earthquakes or landslides creating global tsunamis. There was also a meteor strike in Chesapeake bay area. So maybe it was a chain of events destabilizing plate tectonics for a short period of time. I also look to the Manitou legend which speaks of a medicine man changing valleys into mountains and mountains into valleys, and where east became west. I grew up with the name Manitou being equated to face cards or aces. As in a person is holding heavy hitters in their hand. Some event occurred in our past which was so big it survived to the present day across multiple cultures and with key data remaining unchanged. The forest is a piece of something which had to have happened quickly, flooded and then covered in sand to preserve it for so many years. The tree rings potentially going back 1000+ years, providing a climate record of a fairly stable area for the trees to have survived so long.

Future research should be interesting to keep an eye on.

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