# Atlantis found (Google Sea)?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 20, 2009, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698 "2009-02-20T09:06:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/21 "2009-02-20T21:17:56Z")

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But it’s in the Daily Mail, so it must be… no, actually, good point.

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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/22 "2009-02-21T01:02:45Z")

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Nonsense. Everyone knows Atlantis is really in the South pacific.

[http://tinyurl.com/chvyvx](http://tinyurl.com/chvyvx)

And it looks like [this](http://www.pathguy.com/cthulhu6_s.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/23 "2009-02-21T01:09:15Z")

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It’s the mother of all [Shreddies](http://www.productwiki.com/upload/images/post_shreddies.jpg)

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**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/24 "2009-02-21T02:27:41Z")

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The real question is why aren’t these patterns evident everywhere that sonar data was taken? Is only a subset of the imagery from substandard sonar tech?

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-google-sea/486698/25 "2009-02-21T03:53:17Z")

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A [particular kind of sonar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-scan_sonar) does this. Perhaps other systems don’t leave trails.

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