Researchers working in the Black Sea have found currents of water 350 times greater than the River Thames flowing along the sea bed, carving out channels much like a river on the land. The undersea river, which is up to 115ft deep in places, even has rapids and waterfalls much like its terrestrial equivalents. If found on land, scientists estimate it would be the world's sixth largest river in terms of the amount of water flowing through it.
The undersea river, which is up to 115ft deep in places, even has rapids and waterfalls much like its terrestrial equivalents.
If found on land, scientists estimate it would be the world's sixth largest river in terms of the amount of water flowing through it.
Sounds fammiliar:
According to Pausanias, [the river-god] Alpheius was a passionate hunter and fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse, and metamorphosed herself into a well, after which Alpheius became a river, which flowing from Peloponnesus under the sea to Ortygia, there united its waters with those of the well Arethusa.
It is also deficient in oxygen and being very saline doesn't mix with the much less saline water flowing into the black sea from freshwater rivers. this means that the black sea is almost devoid of oxygen from 100 metres on down. That means, as Ballard discovered when he did some deep sea exploration, that anything that sinks below this level doesn't rot. He discovered a ship, about 15 centuries old, that was still as good as the day it sank. keep to the Fen Causeway
