Ocean Explorer divers check out... what is it?

[flourbug]

Is it a UFO?
Is it a geological formation?
Is it an archaeological site?



Divers from Ocean Explorer are going down to examine an anomaly on the floor of the Baltic Sea... that strangely resembles a wreck of the Millennium Falcon.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...on-object.html

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[linttrap]

Website to follow their progress. Unfortunately they do a lot of excited statements to keep you hanging in there but so far, no real info:

http://www.oceanexplorer.se/

[Grassy Gnoll]

Its is NOT the Millennium Falcon.


It is clearly the Death Star.

or the AT&T logo....

[mordan]

The Euro.

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Is it not obvious?

[linttrap]

New images from the dive team.

[Sysiphus]

It does have the look of a metallic meteor about it. Will be interesting to see when they come back with a sample.

[kaneohegirl]

its been a week... have they been swallowed by guppies or what?

[andy]

http://www.facebook.com/groups/178384865554985/

[gsgs]

Euro going down was also my first idea

in German:
http://grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.blo...runde-der.html

http://oceanexplorer.se

new dive on Thursday

Everything is top secret now

[Potemkin]

Originally Posted by gsgs

Euro going down was also my first idea

in German:
http://grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.blo...runde-der.html

http://oceanexplorer.se

new dive on Thursday

Everything is top secret now

Are you hinting it is alien and there is some government conspiracy?

I would say it is more likely the people funding this project keeping it tightly under wraps.

It is quite popular to try to recoup some of the expidition costs by producing some kind of show to be shown on National Geographic or Science Channel.

There was probably a "leak" by the PR firm to drive interest and gat free advertising in the press.

After that, clamp down. Why let the press get all of the use out of the news and information and degrade the value of your intellectual property? (The upcoming show.)

[gsgs]

http://www.oceanexplorer.se/

"huge mushroom"

[Twoolf]

I always wondered where Star Gate Command dumped Atlantis. Sure as hell couldn't keep in in San Francisco Bay......

[linttrap]

There's a video of the dive here:

http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sa-s...-pa-nara-hall/

[Catbird]

Originally Posted by Twoolf

I always wondered where Star Gate Command dumped Atlantis. Sure as hell couldn't keep in in San Francisco Bay......

See the novel Legacy: Homecoming. Atlantis returns to Pegasus.

[linttrap]

Google translation of article. The frequent mention of mushroom relates to shape, not that it is organic.

The circle on the bottom of the Baltic became a world first when it was discovered a year ago - now thickens the mystery.
Express can now publish exclusive pictures from the first dive at the item - at 85 meters depth.
- We were there to find answers, but only got even more issues, says Stefan Hogeborn, 47, one of the divers from Ocean X Team, which investigated the circle on the bottom of the Baltic.


On June 11 last year went nine professional divers on the Baltic Sea to locate shipwrecks. The divers ran in zigzag back and forth over a large area to search for a number of specific wrecks - when a large, round formation showed up on their scanner screen. They examined the object closely and what they found puzzled the whole world.
Some of Sweden's leading researchers in marine archeology saw the first pictures from the circle that was taken with the so-called sonar, a scanner tool, but no one could answer what the pictures depicted.
Raises more questions

The mysterious discovery spread in the media worldwide, such as CNN reported on the Baltic Sea Mystery. So far no pictures from diving in the circle published.
Now Express - the first newspaper - publish the first pictures from the dive at the mysterious object. A dive that was supposed to provide answers to the mystery - but instead brought even more questions.
Stefan Hogeborn has 20 years experience of diving and working as underwater photographer and dive instructor. Here he describes the first dive at the world famous circle in the Baltic Sea:
- The first thing we will see is some kind of rock formation that looks to be cast in cement, he said.
When they swim further, they see several rock formations.
- It looks almost like a pearl necklace or that someone has tried to make a fireplace with an inch-sized rocks on the ocean floor.
The furnace-like rock formations on top of that which constitutes the large circle that was discovered with a scanner tool last year. Divers images shows that the circle in turn consist of several blocks formed by "rolls" or "mushrooms" that is attached to each other, forming the circle. Overall, the object is 60 meters long and about as wide.
- When we had swum across the object, we get to the weird thing. Then it's like someone has pinched the mountain at the edge, as if you have breathed together two molds, and it sticks out between stone formers, said Stefan Hogeborn.
"Probably sandstone"

At the next dive, they took a sledgehammer to dislodge a piece of material. Stefan Hogeborn describes the sense of carbonized material. During the last dive divers discover an oblong hole in one and a half times the six inches that go into one of the rocks which form the circle.
- I have never, ever, ever, seen anything like it, says Stefan Hogeborn.
Expressen has let Martin Jakobsson, a professor of marine geology and geophysics at the University of Stockholm, see an image from the dive.
- There is probably some kind of sandstone. When you look at the structure, it looks like it, he says.
The samples from the discovery of the Baltic Sea has been sent for analysis.
- Since we did not get any answers to the questions we asked ourselves, we have brought this to the experts who may be looking at the pieces we brought up, says Stefan Hogeborn.


Fact Summary

Rock Formation, which almost seems to be cast in cement, according to the divers.
At one point there was what is likened to a pearl necklace - or that someone has tried to make a fireplace with an inch-sized rocks on the ocean floor.
The furnace-like rock formations on top of that which constitutes the large circle that was discovered with a scanner tool last year. Divers images shows that the circle in turn consist of several blocks formed by "rolls" or "mushrooms" that is attached to each other, forming the circle.
Overall, the object is 60 meters long and about as wide.
Elsewhere, it looks like someone has pinched the mountain at the edge, as if you have breathed together two molds and it sticks out between stone formers, according to the divers.

[Samen]

First released photo.

A stone from ice age, or a UFO from stone age?