Atlantis? No, it Atlant-isn't.

[Tombpsyco]

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Patterns like this can actually be seen over much of the ocean floor
in Google Earth. What is it? Is it real? Why does it look like this?

Some have speculated that these are the plow marks of seafloor farming
by aliens. If there really are little green men hiding somewhere, the
ocean's not a bad place to do it. Mars, Venus, the moon, and even some
asteroids are mapped at far higher resolution than our own oceans (the
global map of Mars is about 250 times as accurate as the global map of
our own ocean).

One theory that's gained more traction is that these marks might be
the ruins of the lost city of Atlantis. If that were the case, some of
the city blocks would have to be over eight miles long - that's about
fifty times the size of a city block in New York City (if you zoom in
and use the measurement tool in Google Earth, you can do this
comparison yourself).

So what is it? The scientific explanation is a bit less exotic, but we
think it's still pretty interesting: these marks are what we call
"ship tracks." You see, it's actually quite hard to measure the depth
of the ocean. Sunlight, lasers, and other electromagnetic radiation
can travel less than 100 feet below the surface, yet the typical depth
in the ocean is more than two and a half miles. Sound waves are more
effective. By measuring the time it takes for sound to travel from a
ship to the sea floor and back, you can get an idea of how far away
the sea floor is. Since this process — known as echosounding — only
maps a strip of the sea floor under the ship, the maps it produces
often show the path the ship took, hence the "ship tracks." In this
case, the soundings produced by a ship are also about 1% deeper than
the data we have in surrounding areas — likely an error — making the
tracks stand out more. You can see all of the soundings that produced
this particular pattern with this KMZ file.
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I think this is similar to the moving rocks in dry lake beds in the
southwestern USA. Wind currents across the lake bed move the rocks,
leaving similar tracks. So why can't the ocean currents off the coast
of Africa do the same thing. Are there any other places like this on
the sea floor or is this the only place it happens.