Yup. That was Bill Ryan. There are salt deposits on the botton of the Med that are over a mile thick, it's a type of salt that forms only with the exposure to sunlight.
Further, The scowering(sp) marks found on the bottom near Gilbralter, I believe, occurred in the last 8-7,000 years.
Here is a map of the world's oceans reduced by a little over 300 ft.
During the Ice Age the world's oceans were reduced by 400-500 ft. Notice that the Med is closed off and divided in two, possibly three sections...and, this does not account for the drying that must have occurred.
I think when the water broke through at Gilbralter, it cascaded through each of the dams and climaxed with the flood of the Black Sea 7,600 years ago.
Actually, he said the Gibraltar waterfall event took place 5 million years ago. Interestingly enough, one of the more odd German plans for the postwar (had the Nazis won) was a hydroelectric project / bridge across the strait, to harness the slight current (I dunno if it goes in or out, but I suspect it's out). Another was to create a huge artificial lake (the old geography of Lake Tritonis, give or take) in order to irrigate the Sahara. ;'D
Ryan's work came from the engineering studies made by the Soviets leading up to the construction of the Aswan High Dam. That's described though in one of the early chapters of Noah's Flood. :')
