Stunning Discoveries Under the Sea

There are immeasurable mysteries hidden in the depths of the oceans beyond one’s imagination. The unique conditions of the sea water preserves these things which otherwise might have deteriorated in no time. Oceans and seas carry secrets from time unknown waiting for us to make some incredible discoveries. Some of the unbelievable discoveries from under the sea are:
 

1. Lost Kingdom Of Cleopatra

The ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion, commonly known as the lost kingdom of Cleopatra formed the gateway to Egypt. The city today is submerged near Alexandria in Egypt’s Aboukir Bay. The reason behind its sinking is still a mystery and has been buried in the water for over 1,200 years with many of its artefacts fully intact till date.

Some of the amazingly well preserved artefacts found by the divers are giant statues of pharaohs, the main temple of Amun-Gerb, numerous small statues of gods and goddesses including that of Isis, 64 ancient ships, plethora of sarchophagi, weights made of stone and bronze, gold coins, 700 anchors, stone blocks with Ancient Egyptians and Greek inscriptions, foundations of the palace, a sphinx, and red granite columns. 

2. Lost Continent Of Mu

In 1987, scuba diving instructor Kihachiro Aratake while exploring good underwater diving sites came across an underwater construction 20 feet below the water surface. The construct looked like a huge amphitheatre with heavy blocks and steps of stone. 250 foot base of the construct lies some 100 feet below the ocean’s surface with rising to a height of 80 ft.

The monument though comprises from medium to quite fine mudstones and sandstones of the Lower Miocene Yaeyama Group is believed to be deposited some 20 million years ago. The monument however is under debate to be completely natural, a modified natural site or a manmade artefact. Some researchers believe that these ruins can be a part of the mythological lost continent of Mu.
 

3. Madagascar’s Giant Bones

Underwater graves of prehistoric animals found in Madagascar comprise fossils of giant animals. Among these fossils were the remnants of lemur an extinct species weighing around 15 times of its present day relatives. Three sunken caves which are located at the Tsimanampetsotsa National Park have yielded huge number of bones with thousand years of Madagascar history. One of these caves was so full of bones that each time the divers searched it they found new bones with the most vital of them being the Archaeoindris. The Archaeoindris is a type of lemur that was the size of a gorilla.
 

4. Underwater Rivers

It is hard to believe, but rivers under water actually exist. One of the many secrets of the oceans is its underwater rivers like the one at the Black Sea’s bottom. This river has trees, leaves and even waterfalls and is around 350 times bigger than the River Thames and about 10 times bigger than the Rhine, Europe’s biggest river. If this river had been on land, it could be world’s sixth largest river in terms of the quantity of water flowing in it.

The discovery of this river can prove to be a great tool in revealing how living organisms survive in the depth of the oceans far away from the nutrient-rich waters close to the land. This underwater river is at places 115 feet deep with the waterfalls quite equivalent to the terrestrial ones.
 

5. Earliest Inhabitants

On exploring a sinkhole near Florida’s Aucilla River the divers made incredible discoveries like the evidence of a human occupation that dated 1,000 years ago than it was previously assumed. The same sinkhole was searched a number of times from 1983 to 1997 without much success.

However, from 2012 to 2014, it gave some remarkable artefacts like bone, stone tools, and a bi-face that is a kind of primitive human knife.  All these findings go to about 14,550 years back around 1000 years prior to even the Clovis people who were the earliest inhabitants of North America.
 

Ocean beds are clamped with secrets and treasures of ruins. It is astonishing to know that the oceans cover 71% of the earth with 97% of the planet’s water where 95% of the underwater world is yet to be explored.