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mulegemichael
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huh?
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegemichael
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SORRY> Pictures wont post so I'm removing this.
Bob Durrell
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegemichael
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U2U or Email it to me if you want me to post it...?
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Read a item about, I believe it was Scripps Oceanography,
they sent a camera down in the region of LA Bay where
the Isles combine to funnel the Cortez flow during a
big tidal exchange creating a Venturi Effect.
Said they saw boulders the size of box cars being
moved on the bottom
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegemichael
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I think I got it this time.What's under the Sea of Cortez? In the 1960s the Soviet Union damed up all the rivers feeding the Aral Sea. Today it is dry
and these pictures show what it looks like now:
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I think I saw Noah's arc in one of those pics
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Looks like the Laguna Salada to me---------spanish galleons out there someplace, full of treasure for sure.
Someone should go for it, but not much fun looking in that waste land.
The Aral Sea situation is a true trajedy!!! It was HUGE, once upon a time in the very recent past.
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David K
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Trying to make the connection to the thread title? The Aral Sea is a lake (or was)... The Sea of Cortez is an arm of the Pacific Ocean. Damming the
Colorado River doesn't affect the water level...?
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Thanks Bob REAL interesting post. Wonder what the bottom of lake Mead would look like
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Trying to make the connection to the thread title? The Aral Sea is a lake (or was)... The Sea of Cortez is an arm of the Pacific Ocean. Damming the
Colorado River doesn't affect the water level...? |
Well, yes and no. 
I was just thinking that the pics of the dry Aral sea sorta look like the Laguna Salada, and that being the main connection.
But, the damming of the Colorado has a very real effect on the Laguna S. as it is the occasional flood waters from the Colorado River that backup
behind the sand berm "natural dam" in the delta of the Colorado River causing the water to flow into the slightly lower elevations of the Laguna
S.-------I have seen the water in the Laguna S. come and go over the many years in response to the Colorado river floods (which seldom happens
anymore, granted.) To the best of my knowledge, the waters of the Pacific have not entered the Laguna S. within written Historic times, but yes it
was an arm of the Sea of Cortez 1000's (millions?) of years ago as was the Imperial Valley, until the deposited sediments of the Colorado River
eventually cut them both off from the Sea.
Man's attempted control over water has always fasinated me.
Barry
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sancho
Read a item about, I believe it was Scripps Oceanography,
they sent a camera down in the region of LA Bay where
the Isles combine to funnel the Cortez flow during a
big tidal exchange creating a Venturi Effect.
Said they saw boulders the size of box cars being
moved on the bottom |
Wow, that is incredible!!! I knew there was A LOT of water passing by the mid-drift of the SOC during tide changes, but "house size boulders" is
truly amazing!! I would love to see that, even if just on a computer screen, or something.
Thanks for posting that tid-bit, Sancho.
Barry
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Cool thread .. thanks mulegemichael 
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dirt and mud and some scallops lol~
READY SET.....................
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In 1991 I flew over the Aral Sea on a real clear day. It was amazing to see how much this former "sea" has shrunk.
Regards, Pablito
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Trying to make the connection to the thread title? The Aral Sea is a lake (or was)... The Sea of Cortez is an arm of the Pacific Ocean. Damming the
Colorado River doesn't affect the water level...? |
I was just wondering how many similar shipwrecks were under the SoC
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Keep in mind that almost everything in the pictures here was NOT on the bottom of the Aral Sea. These ships were on the sea until the sea disappeared
from under them. I've seen pictures with rows of these derelicts sitting in partially dug channels. They only got partially dug because the water
disappered from under them before the channel could reach another large body of water. Pretty spooky! Notice, they are all sitting upright.
John
[Edited on 8-31-2011 by jbcoug]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
Looks like the Laguna Salada to me---------spanish galleons out there someplace, full of treasure for sure.
S |
Cussler, Inca Gold! Good book.
bacquito
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Trying to make the connection to the thread title? The Aral Sea is a lake (or was)... The Sea of Cortez is an arm of the Pacific Ocean. Damming the
Colorado River doesn't affect the water level...? |
I was just wondering how many similar shipwrecks were under the SoC
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OK... thanks for explaining what you were thinking about! Get Ed Vernon's book 'A Maritime History of Baja California' and Walt Peterson's 'The Baja
Adventure Book' for details on shipwrecks.
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other diminishing salt lakes
Protestors arrested in Iran re: Lake Orumiyeh which has lost over half its volume in 20 years due to dams and drought. The protest came about because
the parliament refused to implement a rescue plan for the lake which borders Turkey and Iraq.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14780708
"Raise your words, not your voice. It's rain that grows flowers, not thunder." ~Rumi
"It's the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~ Aristotle
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Dave
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Salton sink canal
There's been talk over the years about a canal system all the way up to a port near Indio which I think is pretty much downhill. It would be cool but
there's no money now and probably never will be.
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