{"id":109434,"date":"2024-10-02T07:50:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109434"},"modified":"2024-10-02T07:50:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:50:48","slug":"scientists-stumped-by-dozens-of-gigantic-holes-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109434","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Stumped by &#8220;Dozens&#8221; of Gigantic Holes at the Bottom of a Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"block pb-1 text-3xl leading-none uppercase border-b lg:hidden xs:text-4xl font-k lg:text-5 border-red\">&#8220;They are in deeper water&#8230; and weren&#8217;t known before, as far as we can tell.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Hole Up<\/h2>\n<p>There are &#8220;dozens&#8221; of holes lining the floor of Lake Michigan \u2014 and scientists are stumped as to why they&#8217;re there.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/planet-earth\/geology\/scientists-confirm-there-are-40-huge-craters-at-the-bottom-of-lake-michigan\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\"><em>LiveScience<\/em> reports<\/a>, researchers at a protected region of the Great Lake are less sure than ever about the strange holes after doing a survey of the lakebed with a submersible robot.<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre craters were first spotted two years ago during a survey by the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast Maritime Sanctuary (WSCMS), which covers a protected area of Lake Michigan known to be home to at least 36 shipwrecks.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#8217;s (NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, the sanctuary&#8217;s scientists have now gotten a closer look at the holes \u2014 but they still have a lot of questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any kind of new discovery in the Great Lakes is exciting,&#8221; Russ Green, a maritime archaeologist with the sanctuary, told\u00a0<em>LiveScience<\/em>. &#8220;But these features really stand out \u2014 they are in deeper water&#8230; and weren&#8217;t known before, as far as we can tell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"font-k text-4 font-black  lg:border-b border-gray-900 pb-1\">Dreamwork<\/h2>\n<p>Coincidentally, local shipwreck hunter Brendon Baillod told the website that he also encountered the holes in the bottom of Lake Michigan around the same time as the sanctuary&#8217;s researchers while looking for a wrecked freighter. He found that the craters measured between 20 to 40 feet deep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were dozens of them in our search grid,&#8221; the shipwreck enthusiast recounted. &#8220;Most were 500 to 1,000 feet in diameter and of irregular shapes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though it took a while to compile all their data, Baillod, Green, and their colleagues\u00a0eventually got in touch with scientists from the NOAA to plan an expedition. That mission was finally executed this August, <em>LiveScience<\/em> notes, when a remotely-operated submersible was sent down\u00a0hundreds of feet to the depths of Lake Michigan\u00a0to examine the holes.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview earlier this year with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/wisconsin\/2024\/08\/27\/scientists-discovered-sinkholes-in-lake-michigan-heres-what-to-know\/74911082007\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\"><em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em><\/a>, NOAA scientist Steve Ruberg said that the first foray uncovered roughly 40 &#8220;perfect little circles&#8221; with shrimp and other marine wildlife &#8220;doing their thing in the dark down there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As of now, the prevailing theory is that the holes are some kind of sinkhole \u2014 but the scientists and shiphunters are holding off on calling them that definitively until they can do more research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll be exploring them for years to come,&#8221; Green\u00a0told\u00a0<em>LiveScience.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>More on underwater revelations: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/nasa-distances-oceangate-titanic-sub\" class=\"underline hover:text-the-byte hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:#ff0033\"><em>NASA Insists It Didn\u2019t Do Much Work on the Titanic Sub That Imploded, Killing Its Crew<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/lake-michigan-holes\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They are in deeper water&#8230; and weren&#8217;t known before, as far as we can tell.&#8221; Hole Up There are &#8220;dozens&#8221; of holes lining the floor of Lake Michigan \u2014 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109434\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}