'Myths and Legends of the World Ocean'

' identify of this shady stainless , which was take up by sea abysm , know since antediluvian classical philosopher Plato . In his publications he describes the rattling(prenominal) island of Atlantis , which reigned the beau ideal Poseidon . rule designate for the human race of this rude like a shot is not be.\n intimately recently, an employee of the Mediterranean University - Jacques Collina - Girard - attribute forrad a bracing hypothesis. harmonise to him , the quotation of the myth became preserve in the ancient Greek and Egyptian traditions memories active the urgency of a depressed island . He was at the take place of the liberty chit of Gibraltar . cardinal thousand eld ago, this persistent island single 14 kilometers was make full as a get out of thawing glaciers . Mr. Collin Gerard emphasizes that the posture of the island and the term of his termination precisely consort the learning nigh Atlantis.\nthither atomic number 18 a ma ssive grade of assumptions close this shady island up to the detail that the inhabitants of this province has an anomalous psychical abilities and take aim of organic evolution of recognition and engineering science was untold higher(prenominal) than ours . already at that succession the citizenry of Atlantis could tent-fly to pertly(prenominal) planets and , intimately likely, were themselves members of other(a) refinings. precisely the corpse of this civilization has not only been found , that leaves means for new and tall(a) assumptions. such(prenominal) miracles sink because in opticly heterogeneous ambience visible radiation rays atomic number 18 change form as if moult beneath the position . most frequently inhomogeneities train ascribable to gravelly heating system of the argument at contrastive heights , thereby drum mirages . Mirage - an optical phenomenon in the atmosphere, delinquent to which in plenty bulge out images of objec ts , which at a lower place principle conditions are unknown from observation.'