What in the world?
Over the weekend, a team of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ocean explorers came across something seriously unsettling lining the Mid-Atlantic ocean floor: a series of holes dug into the sandy seabed at seemingly regular intervals, as seen in footage taken by the NOAA's remotely operated submarine.
The bizarre holes were bored about 1.7 miles beneath the surface, right at the crest of an underwater volcano near the Azores. The incident goes to show just how little we know about the area — a vast, unexplored mountain ridge that lurks deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean's surface.as a quest to obtain some baseline information about vastly understudied — and mysterious — deepwater areas surrounding the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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