Post by account_disabled on Dec 23, 2023 20:11:34 GMT -8
What he and his fellow researchers found was a forgotten world of astonishing abundance grazing herds of plump parrotfish eightmetre high ft forests of branching corals humphead wrasse the size of baby rhinos and sharks. So many sharks. You couldnt look in any direction without seeing one or two he says. an atmosphere of the abnormal a scattering of uncanny clues that this place was different.
Every time you turned around there was something strange going on says Palumbi. Like a mysterious crack in the reef. Small irregular fissures are not uncommon Mobile App Development Service except this one was in a perfectly straight line an orderly chasm at least a mile long. And then there was the navigation incident. Earlier his team had been aboard the dive boat about to drop anchor in a lagoon several kilometres from the nearest land when the navigation system started screaming according to its calculations they had run aground.
They hadnt. Palumbi was diving in one of the most radioactive places on Earth the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Archipelago. Nearly seven decades earlier this ringshaped band of islands formerly an archetypal tropical paradise had been used to test the atomic bomb. Over years in the s and s the US blasted its tranquil waters and those of a neighbouring atoll with nuclear weapons equivalent to megatonnes of TNT more than times the force used at Hiroshima.
Every time you turned around there was something strange going on says Palumbi. Like a mysterious crack in the reef. Small irregular fissures are not uncommon Mobile App Development Service except this one was in a perfectly straight line an orderly chasm at least a mile long. And then there was the navigation incident. Earlier his team had been aboard the dive boat about to drop anchor in a lagoon several kilometres from the nearest land when the navigation system started screaming according to its calculations they had run aground.
They hadnt. Palumbi was diving in one of the most radioactive places on Earth the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Archipelago. Nearly seven decades earlier this ringshaped band of islands formerly an archetypal tropical paradise had been used to test the atomic bomb. Over years in the s and s the US blasted its tranquil waters and those of a neighbouring atoll with nuclear weapons equivalent to megatonnes of TNT more than times the force used at Hiroshima.