How long until James Cameron claims this underwater ‘road to Atlantis’ for himself?
The volcanic rock formation is odd, gorgeous, fascinating, and destined for Cameron's menagerie
Aux Features Atlantis
There’s so much we still have to learn/glean/abjectly fear from our planet’s four five oceans. Relatedly, there’s still so much underwater shit for James Cameron to claim in the name of his forthcoming Earthbound Na’vi utopia… like this deep-sea “road to Atlantis” recently discovered by a team of oceanographers as they work to continue mapping the ocean floor of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM), a marine conservation site near Hawaii in the North Pacific Ocean.
The fascinating find was spotted last month during one of the project’s many livestreams, and as per usual for these kinds of things, it threw the scientists into a very adorable, very nerdy tizzy. “What is this?” one exclaims as their submersible camera pans towards the formation. “It’s crazy how dry it looks, and it’s at the bottom of the ocean,” another muses, presumably as they gazed lovingly at one of their research vessel’s tiny computer screens.
Of course, the aquatic interstate (or “Yellow Brick Road,” as an off-camera oceanographer suggests) isn’t exactly as mysterious as one might initially assume—the video’s caption explains that Atlantis Avenue is most likely the result of lava cooling as it came into contact with water or ice to form a type of glass rock known as hyaloclastite. The even, brick-like fractures probably formed through repeated heating and cooling from nearby volcanic eruptions.
As Motherboard points out, there is a bunch of other equally fascinating footage available from the team for viewing, “including sea pigs, sea stars noshing on coral, and dancing sea cucumbers” thousands of feet below the ocean surface. In any case, we’re sure Cameron is en route towards Atlantis Ave. as we speak, probably in some billion-dollar deep-sea submarine shaped like a Na’vi head.
Send Great Job, Internet tips to [email protected]
14 Comments
If it’s near Hawaii, it’s obviously a road to Lemuria, not Atlantis. This is what happens when they eliminate theosophy from the Common Core.
Nobody reads Life’s Hidden Meaning anymore.
American education needs to get back to the three Ts – theosophy, teleology, and thaumaturgy.
My orgone accumulator is working overtime!
YOU’RE MISSING THE BIGGER PICTURE HEREThat feels like something movie conspiracy nuts would say
Yep and ‘They said I was crazy, well WHO’S CRAZY NOW?!’, that’s a good one too!
Can we like point out that Plato made up the idea of Atlantis and literally said that it was MADE UP — that is, that it was a metaphor and not a real place? Just sayin’. –Signed, a frustrated Classics Minor.
Atlantis was the Lemurians covering for the Lizard People from the Earth’s Core.Study it out!
Lemuria is in the basement of Comet Ping Pong along with sex trafficked kids and Benghazi!
I tried showing this article to my boomer mom and the first thing she said was that this was obviously lemuria not Atlantis. I must learn more of this ancient wisdom.
Five oceans? Have you ever heard of the Seven Seas?
Ocean and seas are different classifications
We sold 2 seas to the fish people of Atlantis, now we aren’t allowed to talk about them. I’ll miss them.
Never mind that, I’m attempting to sail the 117,000,000 lakes.