Last year author Ram V and artist Christian Ward published a new three piece comic book on the DC-superhero Aquaman. (I have commented on the Aquaman movie from the same year here and here.) The story is not really about Atlantis, acording to the DC universe the...
There is a beautifully written passage on the submerged continent and city Atlantis to be found in Jules Verne's famous novel published in French in 1869/1870. The English translation of the chapter is available online. For simplicity reasons I simply copy the link to...
The movie "Moonfall" from 2022 might be the worst movie ever done by Roland Emmerich, the movie director a Canadian journal aptly described as a "disaster-porn artist". Emmerich has filmed - or rather digitally created - a whole collection of gigantic flood waves over...
In folktales from various cultures there are tales of sea animals so big, that they get mistaken for islands. In some stories, sailors land on them and spend time on "land" before realizing that they are actually on top of a living, breathing animal. These islands...
In 2019 this 120 year old lighthouse on the Denish coast had to be moved 70 meters back The 23-meter-high lighthouse is located on a cliff about 60 meters above sea level. When it was put into operation, the cliff was about 200 meters from the sea. In the end, it was...
Already in 1986 the well known German news-magazine Der Spiegel published this image on it's front page. It depicts the Dome of Cologne, one of the most important cultural heritage sites of Germany, partially flooded. The visual strategies of the media have not...
This is from the New York times in 1959. thanks to Janet Grau for the lead!
Continental Shelf Station was an attempt at creating an environment in which people could live and work on the sea floor. Precontinent has been used to describe the set of projects to build an underwater "village" carried out by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his team in...
The british movie "Captain Nemo and the underwater city" by James Hill picks up the themes and main character Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's famous novel and the sucessfull 1954 Disney movie on the same material. While the earlier US-movie develops further the theme...
The book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Testament discusses at large an ecological crisis around 600 BCE in the so called "Fertile Crescent" (a region encompassing today's southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Egypt, and parts of Turkey and Iran)....
