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How Long Can You Tread Water?

 
itdonmatter
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How Long Can You Tread Water?
“Yes, it happened right here,” I mumbled,
digging my toes into the sand.

“You mean, the bells were ringing under the
sea?” quizzed Josephine.

I looked out over the waves. “Yes, down over
there.”

Have you heard about Dunwich? That great
British city in the days of King Alfred
(remember him, the “cake-burner”?)

Dunwich in East Anglia was a bustling town.

And in the reign of Henry II, it had a royal
palace and more than 200 churches.

Among sailors and merchants its market was
known all over Europe.

Dunwich was so important, it used to return
TWO members of parliament.

Imagine a great city like this being slowly
but surely swallowed up by the greedy sea.

In 1347, more than 400 houses and as many
shops and windmills were engulfed.

When Sir Francis Drake was fighting the
Spaniards, scarcely a quarter of the fine
old city was left.

At last, all that remained of Dunwich were
the cracked and battered walls of the Church
of All Saints. For years it hung poised
on the very edge of the cliff – and then one
day crashed into the sea beneath.

The low cliffs are still crumbling away by
five to six feet annually.

BELLS THAT RING
UNDER THE SEA

Fishermen reported that during storms
the bells of lost churches could be heard
pealing as the sea currents surged through
the bell towers.

Can you imagine this:

Coastal erosion along a strip of the
Yorkshire coast of England has resulted in
the loss of 35 towns since Roman times.

That’s right, 35 towns!

Do you have an atlas? Okay, see if you can
find this:

Look for the narrowest part of the English
Channel, namely the Strait of Dover. Close
to the English coast you may see marked
the Goodwin Sands, a line of sandbanks just
beneath the water.

These sandbanks are all that is left of the
vast estate of Earl Godwin, father of King
Harold.

All this land, with its park, cattle, sheep
and deer, sank beneath the waves 900 years
ago.

The Dover Strait is still widening by about
one foot a year.

There are, of course, places where land has
been built up with earth eroded from other
sites. But the overall result has been
loss of land.
SOME OTHER RECENT INUNDATIONS

* Denmark: Off the coast of Denmark is the
small island of Nordstrand. It is the last
trace of a large tract of rich farmland that,
as recently as 300 years ago, was covered by
an inrush of the sea. Six thousand people
and their homes were swept away.

Holland: In the 13th century, the slowly
rising North Sea suddenly rushed inland over
parts of low lying Holland and formed the
big inlet called the Zuider Zee, destroying
30 villages and 80,000 people. In the 19th
century, the Dutch reclaimed this rich land
with dykes.

* England: During the reign of Henry II,
one of the most important seaports of England
was Shipden in Norfolk on the east coast.
It had a large and beautiful church famous
all over England. Five hundred years ago,
Shipden was swallowed up by the sea – church,
dock and all.

GRADUALLY RISING SEAS

Of course, not all underwater ruins found
today have resulted from the rising sea
level.

In some cases the land actually sank under.
Nevertheless the rising ocean is still slowly
but steadily wearing away the coastlines of
the world.

Generally the erosion is scarcely noticed.
At times, however, the waves suddenly gulp
down wide stretches of land without warning.

Some time back, I was invited to conduct a
seminar series in the Solomon Islands in the
south west Pacific.

One of the folk told of a low-lying island
in the Solomons which was recently abandoned
by its inhabitants, due to a rising sea level.

Currently the sea level is rising at the rate
of 1.5 feet (45 centimetres) per century.

Recent predictions are for a dramatic increase
in this rate very soon.

It’s a pity… some of our most exotic low-lying
tropical islands seem next in line to be
swallowed up.

Want to see some special place before it
disappears? There’s probably no need to rush
to your travel agent… not yet.

Actually, the world’s sea level has been
inching up for the past 4,000 years.

This has been caused by
(a) the melting of the post-Flood ice
and
(b) the gradual evaporation or outflow
of post-Flood inland basins to the
sea.

The gradual rise of the oceans is thus
another ongoing consequence of the Deluge.

Flood waters left behind on the land, in
the form of ice or inland lakes, have been
gradually returning to the oceans.

The result has been not only a drying out
of the land, but a corresponding rise in
sea level.

SURPRISE ON AN OLD MAP

The Hadji Ahmed map of 1559, whose original
source dates back thousands of years, shows
a landbridge between Siberia and Alaska,
which existed when the original map was
drawn.

If the ocean between these two land masses
were lowered 100 feet today, there would be
a dry-land path between them.

According to some oceanographers and
geologists, the ocean level may have been
as much as 500 feet lower than today.

Ireland was connected with England; the
North Sea was a great plain; Italy was
joined to Africa, and exposed land cut the
Mediterranean into two lakes.

Since then, the rising seas have engulfed
coastal land and islands, turning isthmuses
into straits and large islands into
underwater plateaus.

Along many of the world’s shorelines are
lost islands, now deep below the sea, with
remains of cities, palaces and temples.
OVERFLOWING ONTO THE
CONTINENTAL SHELF

In fact, most of the continental shelf,
which marks the true boundaries between the
ocean basins and the continental areas, now
lies under a mean depth of 430 feet of
water.

It ranges from 300 feet to about 1,500 feet.)

The present continental shelf probably
defines the edge of the oceans as they
developed during the post-Flood glacial peak.

With the ice melt and the draining or
evaporation of inland basins, the seas rose,
with minor fluctuations, to their present
level.

The ocean basins can thus be characterized
as overfull – water not only fills the
ocean basins proper, but extends out over
the low margins of the continents. So
concludes a panel of geologists.

Oceanographers and geologists generally
agree that a dramatic, rapid rise of water
occurred several thousand years ago.

This has slowed to about 1.5 feet per
century.
UNDERSEA CANYONS

Around the world’s coastlines are undersea
river canyons, which were once above the
ocean. Such canyons cannot be cut
underwater.

* The submerged Hudson Canyon, one hundred
miles long and hundreds of feet deep,
could only have been formed above water
when this extension of the Hudson River
was dry land.

* Off the coast of Europe are the Loire,
Rhone, Seine and Tagus canyons. The
drowned Rhine Valley runs under the
North Sea to disappear between Norway
and Scotland – showing that the North
Sea was dry land.

* Numerous other canyons were cut at the
edge of the former ocean basin (now
submerged): La Plata in Argentina, the
Delaware and St. Lawrence in North
America, the Congo in West Africa.

* Off the African west coast are
submerged river canyons whose rivers no
longer exist in the now-arid land.

All these canyons were cut out above water.
Now they are submerged.

ANCIENT MAPS SHOW
NOW-DROWNED ISLANDS

The curious Buache map was copied from
sources whose origins are lost in antiquity.

This ancient “treasure map” portrays
correctly the location of the Canary Islands
and the correct outline of an underwater
plateau which formed their extended shape
before the oceans rose.

Anciently, the Greek islands would have been
larger and more numerous, as well.

The Ibn Ben Zara map of 1487 (likewise
copied from charts apparently thousands of
years old) does in fact show many islands
which are now under water.

OCEAN POURED INTO
MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA

In fact, there is evidence suggesting that
as the ocean level rose, it back-filled the
Mediterranean.

And as the Mediterranean rose, it back-
filled the Black Sea. Consequently, a number
of post-Flood roads and settlements became
permanently submerged.

This explains the drowned remains found in
the Black Sea by Russian scientists in the
1950s and later by Robert Ballard.

During an exploration of the seabed, Soviet
archaeologists discovered the legendary town
of Diosuria at the bottom of the Black sea,
off Sukhumi.

Then, in September, 2000, at 311 feet
beneath the surface of the Black sea,
Ballard’s team, with a submersible,
discovered a collapsed man-made building
with planks and beams.

Ballard said, “If you drained it back, it
would be rolling countryside with meandering
streams. We located the countryside and
located the river systems.”

The media saw this as evidence of a local
flood that may have inspired the biblical
story of Noah.

How little do they know! Ballard did NOT
find evidence of that Great Flood.

What Ballard found was a post-Flood regional
catastrophe that occurred several hundred
years after the world-wide Flood – when
melting glaciers raised sea level until the
waters of the Mediterranean breached the
natural dam of the Bosphorus.

Sea water which had first come in from the
Atlantic to fill the Mediterranean, now from
the Mediterranean poured into the Black Sea
basin.

It poured in at 200 times the volume of
Niagara Falls. The heavier salt water plunged
to the bottom of the existing fresh water
lake and began to fill the basin like a
bathtub.

This rising lake-sea inundated and submerged
thousands of square miles of land, destroying
local communities, killing people and wiping
out plants and animals.

But that was NOT Noah’s Flood.
DROWNED CITIES

In the Mediterranean, silting – as well as
uplifting – of land has occurred - so that
some ancient ports, such as Ephesus, Priene
and Miletus are now miles from the sea.

And the remains of the former ancient
harbour city of Phalassarna, in Crete, lie
20 feet above sea level, on the cliffs!

Conversely, other ruins, such as a temple at
Pozzuoli on the Adriatic Sea’s Gulf of Venice
have sunk… then come back up again. This
temple now shows the distinct holes left by
underwater borers from its prolonged
immersion 20 feet under the sea!

In the Mediterranean, earth movements
resulting from earthquakes and volcanoes
account for most of the submerged cities,
but not all.

Because of the general rising of the water
level of the Mediterranean, large sections
of cities well known to history are now
under water.

Among these are Baise (a sort of ancient
Las Vegas), numerous points along Italy’s
western coast, cities along the Adriatic
coast of Yugoslavia, parts of Syracuse in
Sicily, Lepis Magna in Libya, as well as
the ancient harbours of Tyre and Caesarea.

There are more than 250 known drowned
cities in the Mediterranean.

Helike is believed to lie on the sea bottom
near Corinth.

In ancient times this sunken city was a
tourist attraction for Roman visitors to
Greece.

They used to pass over it in boats, admiring
the ruins visible through the clear water.
The statue of Zeus, still standing, was
clearly visible on the bottom.

The small island of Malta, with its giant
megaliths, gives evidence of having once
been part of a larger, now drowned, land.
ROADS DISAPPEAR INTO THE DEEP

A thousand feet offshore from the island of
Melos are the ruins of an ancient city at a
depth extending to 400 feet.

>From it there branch out roads, descending
even deeper – to unknown destinations.

Jacques Costeau found on the sea bottom
another paved road far out in the
Mediterranean.

Sicily was once joined to Italy by land over
which ships now sail.

DROWNED MINES

Five miles directly offshore from Marseilles,
on the French Riviera, at a depth of 80 feet,
divers have found horizontal and vertical
mining tunnels, smelting facilities and slag
heaps lying outside the shafts.

HANNIBAL’S DROWNED CAMP

The camps that Hannibal used as a staging
area prior to his invasion of Rome lie under
shallow water off Peniscola, on the eastern
coast of Spain.
Anonymous Coward
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01/09/2007 05:27 PM
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Re: How Long Can You Tread Water?
thank you for this.
interesting it is.

so how many new islands have been made?
if there is one, isn't there the other?
lost vs new land?
Mickey blue

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01/09/2007 05:39 PM
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Re: How Long Can You Tread Water?
Papua New Guinea is disappearing as we speak,the islands in the region.
The Netherlands has addressed this by raising the dikes to 42feet,twice the height they were and rewilding their major rivers.
You had better visit Venice soon,too.

I live above Sacramento,California which is 15' above sea level and protected by levess,over a hundred years old. The system is guaranteed to look forward to massive flooding problems in the future and we are compared to New Orleans as a future problem.

Good material and most interesting. Knew most of it but not all of it so thanks alot.
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01/09/2007 05:52 PM
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Re: How Long Can You Tread Water?
Your most very welcome...

Glad you injoyed truth.
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01/09/2007 08:33 PM
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Re: How Long Can You Tread Water?
thank you!
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01/09/2007 08:57 PM
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Re: How Long Can You Tread Water?
Who drew the map of the Antartic.

It was post flood, but without the ice and snow?
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Re: How Long Can You Tread Water?
[link to nabataea.net]
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01/09/2007 09:05 PM
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Re: How Long Can You Tread Water?
[link to www.goldenageproject.org.uk]
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01/09/2007 09:12 PM
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Re: How Long Can You Tread Water?
Your most very welcome...

Glad you injoyed truth.
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