Photo: AL.com
Photo: AL.com
The thriving eco system has stood devoid of oxygen for over 12,000 years. Some of the tree stumps found are half-a-mile in diameter.
Big tree... or else the reporter got it massively wrong (again).
Seriously...
I guess we’ll see it on the new season of “Ax Men”.
On the other hand, I’ll bet there a lot of charter captains that ain’t to pleased at this becoming public knowledge.
Curious as to why they are limited to 40 minutes???
Thanks for the post.
I want to see the stump that is “half-a-mile in diameter”.
Must be one of "Jack In the Beanstalk" trees...
...10 miles offshore of Alabama.
The thriving eco system has stood devoid of oxygen for over 12,000 years. Some of the tree stumps found are half-a-mile in diameter.
Scientists from Louisiana State tested some of the samples brought up by divers that proved to be 52,000 years old. That means these trees were probably thriving during an period earlier than the Ice Age. Incredibly researchers say the inside of the tree appears to still be hard.
...is owned more by the sea than it is by the U.S. or Mexico is another mystery.
So, if it is only a mile wide, and it is 10 miles offshore from Alabama, how in the heck does Mexico even figure into this?
And, if they were without oxygen for 12,000 years, but some of the trees are 52,000 years old, what happened to the other 40,000 years?
Finally, if some of the trees are a half mile wide, and the whole thing is only am mile wide, just how huge a forest could this be?
This report is more full of holes than swiss cheese.
The author really needed an editor.
“And it took some curious fishermen to discover it by questioning why there so many fishing congregating in one area.”
“Some of the tree stumps found are half-a-mile in diameter.”
That article is officially the dumbest thing I’ve read in the last hour. The Latino’s at Histrionically(on purpose, thanks spell check because hispanically wasn’t recognized as a word) Speaking News need some series edumacation...
Excerpt from article, “ Some of the tree stumps found are half-a-mile in diameter. “
Wow! Now that’s some tree! It must have been thirty or forty miles tall! Just imagine the size of the squirrels that lived in it, lol :)
Here is a link to an article that does not use English as a Second language, yet. It actually says the stumps are about 2 meters in diameter and cover an area about 1/2 mile wide.
I don’t know why we need to go to hispanically speaking since this is U.S. forum.
Come again?
Shelby Stanga will bring those logs up.
“Scientists from Louisiana State tested some of the samples brought up by divers that proved to be 52,000 years old.”
Any dem mud bug skeletons found in the area ?
Willing to bet them scientist names' were *Boudreaux and Thibodaux*.
Sounds like the work of them boys :)
“What’s next for the primeval underwater forest that is owned more by the sea than it is by the U.S. or Mexico”
It is 10 miles off the coast of Alabama. Apparently the author in “Hispanicly”speakingnews did not look at a map. There is no way the area is “owned” by Mexico, though under international law standards there is no doubt it can be claimed to be in “U.S. territorial waters”.
The “Hispanicly”speakingnews author must be something of a “racist”.
Here’s the first report that the “Hispanicly”speakingnews reporter cut and pasteed from:
http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/ancient_underwater_forest_off.html
adding his own spin at the end that they might be “owned” by Mexico
