How did an island get so far underwater? NOT a climate crazy here, but it does have one wondering how it sank to where one must use breathing apparatus to study.
The island next to Fort Jefferson, Loggerhead Key where we did coast guard duty several years ago was constantly changing form from one year to the next. It would lose real estate and or gain it due to the terrific winds and erosion that blow thru there. These islands are sitting out there in the water totally unprotected.
Quakes are not unheard of down there. Port Royal in Jamaica now rests under the bay which it served, as a result of subsidence after a major quake. .
I think the fort grew so large that the island tipped over.
“How did an island get so far underwater?”
The island was above water just 7 years ago, but a glacier in Cuba melted due to global warming. It seems like those old 1950’s cars the Cubans run around in really spit out green house gases and warmed the place up enough to cause the local waters to rise. /sarc/
If that story came out in the MSM, there would be people that believed it.