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I've dived at the Yonaguni Monument, and one thing that's usually not clear from breathless hype like this article is that the site is both quite deep (mostly 1
by teractiveodular 2y ago
I've dived at the Yonaguni Monument, and one thing that's usually not clear from breathless hype like this article is that the site is both quite deep (mostly 10-30m underwater), a fair distance from the shore (hundreds of meters, IIRC), and that said shore consists largely of steep cliffs.
I've yet to hear even the most rabid "lost continent of Mu!!!1!1" enthusiast propose any sort of plausible mechanism to explain how a manmade monument could somehow have moved hundreds of meters diagonally from above sea level into the bottom of the ocean without getting completely destroyed in the process.
- skywhopper 2y agoWasn’t the sea level 50m lower 10k years ago?
- _ph_ 2y agoIt wouldn't have to. 10k years ago, the sea level was way lower. At the end of the ice age, the sea rose by about 100m. The Dover strait was dry land during the ice age. So if those places were built long enough ago, they would have been over the sea level.