Climbing Greece’s Mount Olympus is an impressive feat, but an underwater equivalent could be even more astonishing.
According to popularmechanics.com, oceanographers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute recently discovered a 3,109-meter-tall seamount along the Nazca Ridge, west of Chile.
Regardless of climb-ability, the 3,109-meter seamount is a massive find. It’s one of many made during the oceanographers’ 28-day late-summer exploration in the research vessel Falkor (too), whimsically named for the famous luckdragon from The Neverending Story.
Despite the scale of this discovery, it represents only a fraction of the ocean floor; less than 30% of Earth’s oceans have been mapped in high resolution.
Along with mapping the ocean floor, the expedition revealed new marine life, including the rare Promachoteuthis squid, while studying coral gardens on the seamount’s rocky slopes.
Source: popularmechanics.com
