Tag: GOOGLEOCEAN

Tom Berge, a builder from Sutton, England, has been using Google Earth as a treasure-seeking tool, of sorts. While other Google hunters before have claimed to find lost ships or even Atlantis, Berge pursued a more tangible type of booty. Using the popular map application, Berge would canvass nearby areas and identify buildings whose roofs consisted of valuable lead tiles. An unidentified ...

Well, that was fast. Over the last few hours, reports from around the world indicated that a bizarre grid seen in Google Ocean might have been the legendary city of Atlantis. As it turns out, it was much ado about nothing; the lines were actually created by a ship used by Google to make the maps. The speculation about the "discovery" was fueled by the fact that researchers have named the same ...