Scientists Found a 'Yellow Brick Road' at The Bottom of The Pacific Ocean

[Judi Lynn]

04 November 2024
ByCarly Cassella



Yellow Brick Road Seen by Nautilus
A deep-sea 'yellow brick road'. (The Ocean Exploration Trust/E/V/Nautilus/YouTube Screenshot)

An expedition to a deep-sea ridge, just north of the Hawaiian Islands, revealed a surprise discovery back in 2022: an ancient dried-out lake bed paved with what looks like a yellow brick road.


The eerie scene was chanced upon by the exploration vessel Nautilus, while surveying the Liliʻuokalani ridge within Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM).

PMNM is one of the largest marine conservation areas in the world, larger than all the national parks in the United States combined, and we've only explored about 3 percent of its seafloor.

Researchers at the Ocean Exploration Trust are pushing the frontiers of this wilderness, which lies more than 3,000 meters below the waves, and the best part is, anyone can watch the exploration.

A highlight reel of the expedition's footage published on YouTube in April 2022 captured the moment researchers operating the deep-sea vehicle stumbled upon the road to Oz.

More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-a-yellow-brick-road-at-the-bottom-of-the-pacific-ocean

[multigraincracker]

1. That's almost 2 miles down.

[Easterncedar]

2. Geology is cool

Like the giant city underwater off the coast of Japan, it’s nature!

[marble falls]

3. Alien paving crews.

[Easterncedar]

4. I visited the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland some years ago.

Fantastic. Hard not to see it as a creation of hands of some kind.

[marble falls]

5. When my daughters were young we lived in Arizona, My eldest, around three at the time thought that ...

... a lot of the rock outcrops were castles. I look at most of these things, like Japan's 'atlantis', the devil's causeway, and I see geology.