Undersea river discovered flowing on sea bed

wow. that's incredible. 350 times greater than the thames. amazing what we have still to learn about earth. awesome story.

Thank you Still Waters for posting this. It's very interesting. ----------------- As for the researcher's opinions in the article: I can't figure out why they call it a river. It's deep channel in the sea with faster currents. If it was fresh water flowing I could understand it, but unless I read it wrong, the water is saltier because it's settled down to the lower channel. It's still strange to think the channel waters could be moving so much faster than the top water... It's a wonder they don't have sightings of great sea monsters from something like an inversion effect like happens in deep ... [More]

Those rivers, lakes and seas you see in Spongebob make sense to me now!

anything to do with our oceans fasinates me because we know so little about them... great article!

I dont understand how this is possible :S Also is it freshwater under salt water??

3-D radar image, using false colour, of the undersea river channel where it enters the Black Sea from the Bosphorus Strait. Photo: University of Leeds To me it appears to be nothing but a river-like bed carved out when the Bosporus dam breached (what was it? 5700 BC?), and the water of the Mediterranean spilled over into the Black Sea. It's not a river at all, it'a gulley carved into the bottom of the Black Sea, before the Black Sea came into existence.

I think it could be a river (current), i mean, its not the first to be found and i think the dam breached way before, didnt it? i mean like 8000 bc? no?

I dont understand how this is possible :S Also is it freshwater under salt water?? You could read the article and find out, it's not all that hard.

this is amazing, it just makes me want to do more reaserach on 'polarization' of the shifts, and just ackkk its aweeeoomse! Ocean water needs to be explored more and is, plus no cancer in the ocean! XD

That is utterly amazing. Now, if only we could live entirely under water. I mean, I suppose we can in ways. But... underwater cities would be amazing. It'd be a sort of heaven for me.