Camera 1km under the sea reveals ‘yellow brick road’ under Pacific Ocean | World | News
A remote-controlled vehicle live-streaming scientific research deep in the central Pacific Ocean has shocked viewers after capturing images of what appears to be a yellow brick road 1 kilometer above the surface.
This event occurred in 2022 during the Luʻaeaahikiikekumu leg of the Ocean Exploration Trust’s Pacific expedition; Meanwhile, the exploration ship Nautilus mapped and collected samples of nearly 30,000 square kilometers of seafloor to better understand how ancient volcanoes formed and how various organisms survived among them. Nautilus during research served as a base and mothership for scientists, Remotely controlled vehicles can be sent deep underwater for exploration.
These deep-sea expeditions can be viewed as-is on the foundation’s YouTube channel, giving viewers at home a stunning look at a rarely explored part of the planet due to the extremely high pressure at lower depths.
As one of the vehicles, the ROV Hercules, navigated an underwater mountain north of Hawaiʻi, its camera captured jaw-dropping images of people in the stream.
He showed the untrained what appeared to be a paved brick road on Nootka Seamount, a deep volcanic mountain within the Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Monument, prompting jokes among the research team about the discovery of the lost city of Atlantis.
In addition to resembling a human-made road, its yellow color has also drawn comparisons to the famous road from Munchkinland to the Emerald City in L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It became even more popular with its iconic film adaptation in 1939.
But although the sight of what looks like man-made brickwork on the seabed may have excited fans of theories about ancient lost civilizations, there is a purely scientific explanation, according to the foundation’s experts: Eco News has been reported previously.
A description in a video showing the phenomenon on the EVNautilus YouTube channel explains that what appears to be a path of tiles or bricks is actually “a fractured flow of hyaloclastite rock (a volcanic rock formed in high-energy eruptions where many pieces of rock collapse to the seafloor).”
“The unique 90-degree fractures are probably related to heating and cooling stress from multiple explosions on this baked edge,” he adds.
Although it may not seem like evidence of a human settlement lost to history, it is one of many examples of nature’s remarkable capacity to surprise us.
