How long until James Cameron claims this underwater 'road to Atlantis' for himself?
The volcanic rock formation is odd, gorgeous, fascinating, and destined for Cameron's menagerie
There’s so much we still have to learn/glean/abjectly fear from our planet’s four five oceans. Relatedly, there’s still so much underwater shit for James Cameron to claim in the name of his forthcoming Earthbound Na’vi utopia… like this deep-sea “road to Atlantis” recently discovered by a team of oceanographers as they work to continue mapping the ocean floor of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM), a marine conservation site near Hawaii in the North Pacific Ocean.
The fascinating find was spotted last month during one of the project’s many livestreams, and as per usual for these kinds of things, it threw the scientists into a very adorable, very nerdy tizzy. “What is this?” one exclaims as their submersible camera pans towards the formation. “It’s crazy how dry it looks, and it’s at the bottom of the ocean,” another muses, presumably as they gazed lovingly at one of their research vessel’s tiny computer screens.