What the Heck Is at the Bottom of the Baltic Sea?
Sceptics expected
that a deep-water dive would debunk the slew of extra-terrestrial
theories surrounding an unidentified object sitting at the bottom
of the Baltic Sea.
But the Swedish
expedition team that took the plunge surfaced with more questions
than answers – and certainly no solution to its origins.
The divers
found that the object, which some have likened to the Millennium
Falcon because of its unusual round outline, was raised about 10
to 13ft above the seabed and curved in at the sides, giving it a
mushroom shape.
They added
that the object has ’rounded sides and rugged edges’
‘First we thought
this was only stone, but this is something else,’ diver Peter Lindberg
said in a press release.
At the center
of the object, which has a 60-meter diameter, has an ‘egg shaped
hole leading into it from the top’.
Surrounding
the hole, they found a strange, unexplained rock formation. Adding
fuel to the speculative fire, they said that the rocks looked ‘like
small fireplaces’ and the ‘stones were covered in something resembling
soot’.
‘Since no volcanic
activity has ever been reported in the Baltic Sea the find becomes
even stranger,’ Mr Lindberg continued.
A brief video
clip of the dive was released to Swedish-language paper Expressen
and can be viewed on Gizmodo.
June
18, 2012
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