The holes form a straight line and appear at regularly repeating distances, and they are surrounded by tiny mounds of sediment.
Explorers have discovered a series of mysterious,"perfectly aligned" holes punched into the seafloor roughly 1.6 miles beneath the ocean surface, and they have no idea who or what made them.
The strange holes were spotted by the crew of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Okeanos Explorer vessel as they investigated the Mid-Atlantic Ridge — a mostly unexplored region of the seafloor that is part of the world's largest mountain range. This isn't the first time that holes have been spotted in the area; two marine scientists from the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service also spotted mysterious holes during a dive in 2004."These holes have been previously reported from the region, but their origin remains a mystery," the NOAA researchers wrote on Facebook."While they look almost human made, the little piles of sediment around the holes make them seem like they were excavated by... something.
The unresolved mystery is reminiscent of an underwater"yellow brick road" to Atlantis that ocean explorers discovered on top of an underwater mountain near Hawaii in May. Scientists explained that discovery — they suspected that heating and cooling of the seafloor across multiple volcanic eruptions created the strange path.
What is creating the holes, on the other hand, may take a little longer to figure out. The researchers will continue to explore the region until September as part of the Voyage to the Ridge 2022 expedition, which aims to map out the region's coral reefs and sponge habitats alongside studying the region's hydrothermal vents and its fracture and rift zones. Maybe if they're lucky, they might just catch the hole-maker in the act.
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