OMG! Did Google Earth find Atlantis?

Google is officially denying widespread Internet rumors that its Google Earth software located the mythical sunken city of Atlantis off the coast of Africa. Either that, or Google is totally trying to hide something. Since I always appreciate a nice juicy conspiracy theory, I'm going to go with the latter.From what it sounds like, a British aeronautical engineer was playing around with the new Google Earth 5.0, which includes undersea data, and noticed something funny off the coast of Africa, about 600 miles west of the Canary Islands, that resembled a pattern of a street grid. According to the United Kingdom's Press Association, the pattern of streets equated to an area the size of Wales. (McCarthy, 2009)

The images you think Google took, are in fact computer generated topographic maps based on the sonar data received from ships and aircraft. If these were true images, then you would not see the bottom of the ocean, rather the surface and maybe 10m down.

McCarthy, Caroline (2009,2,18). OMG! Did Google Earth find Atlantis?. Retrieved February 20, 2009, from wired.com Web site: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10168269-36.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0