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2023 TITAN SUBMERSIBLE TAGEDY (JUNE 18TH 2023)

2023 Titan submersible incident - Wikipedia

STOCKTON RUSH (1962-Died June 18th 2023,at 61).Americna business and exploration entrepreneur,and CEO of OceanGate,which provided submersibles for undersea tourism,research and exploration. And responsible for the deaths of 4 fellow passengers on the Titan submersible,through gross negligence,despite dying himself on board..Stockton Rush - Wikipedia

HAMISH HARDING (1964-Died June 18th 2023,at 58).British explorer,adventurer and businessman.He was the founder of Action Group and was chairman of Action Aviation, an international aircraft brokerage company with headquarters in Dubai, UAE.[5][6][7][8] As an adventurer, he was a member of The Explorers Club who visited the South Pole several times, descended into the Mariana Trench, broke a Guinness World Record for circumnavigation of the Earth, and travelled into space.Victim of OceanGate/Stockton Rush gross negligence following the Titan sub tragedy.Hamish Harding - Wikipedia

PAUL-HENRI NARGEOLET (1946-Died June 18th 2023,at 77).French deep sea explorer and RMS Titanic expert,who undertook many explorations to the wreck of the Titanic,and was considered one of the foemost experts on the wreck and it's tragedy.He himself was killed during the Titan Submersibles descent to visit the Titanic,in June 2023,potentially culpable for the tragedy.Paul-Henri Nargeolet - Wikipedia

SHAHZADA DAWOOD (1975-Died June 18th 2023,at 48).British Pakistani businessman and philanthropist,one of the wealthiest men in Pakistan.

And his son,SULEMAN DAWOOD (2003/4 - Died June 18th 2023,at 19). Victims in the 2023 Titan Submerisble tragedy through gross negligence of OceanGate and it's CEO Stockton Rush,who himself died on the sub.

Have Researchers Found an Undersea Road to The Lost City of Atlantis?

Not every road leads to Rome.

Some paths appear to be headed to the center of the ocean — like one recently spotted by scientists in the Pacific that they dubbed the “road to Atlantis.”

Late last month, oceanographers aboard the EV Nautilus vessel were out exploring the floor of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, a submarine range of volcanic mountains off the coast of Hawaii, when they came across what looked like a well-preserved brick road at the bottom of the sea.

On April 29, the researchers were amazed to see such a structure 3,376 feet underwater, near the top of Nootka Seamount. The discovery, as part of the Luʻuaeaahikiikekumu expedition, was captured on video during the group’s 24/7 livestream on YouTube.

“That’s a really unique structure,” another added.

“This is the yellow brick road,” a third researcher chimed.

“Are you kidding me? This is crazy,” an additional voice exclaimed.

Only about 3% of the 583,000 square miles within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument area has been recorded, although its peaks are known to rise over 16,000 feet from the seabed and summit just 200 feet below the surface of the water.

The legend of Atlantis dates back to Plato’s “Dialogues,” written about 360 B.C. — the first of all records of the lost city in history. In the philosopher’s tale, the city was a metaphor for the corruption of power, wealth and industry. In other words, it was created strictly as a plot device, and not the stuff of prehistoric folklore. Moreover, there isn’t a trace of archaeologic or geologic evidence that a sunken city ever existed.

Scholars are also quite sure that the realm of Oz existed only in the mind of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” author L. Frank Baum, who published the original story in 1900.

Researchers aboard the Nautilus had their fun when they dubbed the remarkable clip “Follow the ‘Yellow Brick Road’ to Geologic Features of Liliʻuokalani Ridge Seamounts” for social media, but explained the bricklike formation’s true nature in the caption.

“What may look like a ‘yellow brick road’ to the mythical city of Atlantis is really an example of ancient active volcanic geology,” they wrote.

What the team had actually seen was later identified as hyaloclastite, “a volcanic rock formed in high-energy eruptions where many rock fragments settle to the seabed,” they explained, while the “unique 90-degree fractures” that made it look like stone laid for a road are likely a result of “heating and cooling stress from multiple eruptions.”

The current mission, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, set out for a deeper understanding of how the northwestern Hawaiian Islands were formed. They also hope to spot healthy communities of coral and sponge, which are under threat globally.

Dawn Wright was born on April 15, 1961. Wright is a prominent authority on geographic information science (GIS) and has worked for more than fifteen years to map terrains, habitats, and ecosystems using GIS. She has spent her career furthering our understanding of deep sea environments and the ocean floor. In 2011, she became Chief Scientist at Esri.

Happy birthday, Dawn Wright!