[Coyoteman]

During the 1999 expedition, Ballard’s team discovered a submerged ancient shoreline with a flat beach area beneath about 550 feet(168 meters) of water...

So how do you reconcile the two different studies?

[Fraxinus]

So how do you reconcile the two different studies?

As an interested lay man I blame continental drift.

For those talking about Noah's flood, I suspect it was a low probability, high impact event ~4K years ago that lost absolutely nothing in the retelling (I suspect it was a tropical storm raining itself out over the Zagros Mountains that flooded Mesopotamia).

[ForGod'sSake]

Maybe I should thank you for not pointing out the bad LINK TO THE ARTICLE I cited, but then again, maybe you didn't want to bring any more attention to research that contradicts a secular driven agenda. I doubt you searched it out yourself; whatever...

So how do you reconcile the two different studies?

Not having the wherewithal to independently research the two(of many) studies, I'm left instead making a choice of which I favor as more plausible or believable. I suspect you are in a similar situation?

Coincidentally, Robert Ballard was with the Woods Hole group for 30 years. Who do you choose to believe???