Atlantic Ocean

If we talk about the depths of the Atlantic they he has three And it is significant. The largest is the South Sandwich trench with a depth of 8 kilometers 428 meters It is located near the South Sandwich Islands to the east of Tierra del Fuego in the Greater Antilles, the island of Puerto Rico is a hollow Puerto Rico Its depth is 8 kilometers of 385 met the moat. And in the center of the Atlantic Ocean at the equator is the third depth - Romanche - with a mark of 7 kilometers of 728 meters. Life is represented in almost the same species as the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But here it is much poorer. This applies both to the representatives of flora and animal. To some extent this is due to the fact that the Atlantic Ocean from time immemorial a place of intensive sea fishing and trapping. Thus, whaling in the Bay of Biscay was conducted Basques still in XI-XII centuries. Commercial fishing in the North Sea is from the middle ages, but after the discovery of America in the XVI - XVII centuries unfolds a broad commercial fishing. After the invention of the harpoon gun in the North Atlantic whales were largely destroyed at the end of the last century, and even in the middle of XX century in connection with the development of pelagic whaling in Antarctic waters of the Atlantic are here whales were close to complete annihilation. But the most interesting moment in history and geography of the Atlantic Ocean is certainly a legend supposedly existed in ancient times, mysterious land between Africa, Europe on the one hand and America - on the other. Of course, all at once guessed that it was a mysterious island country - Atlantis. Since ancient times, or rather from the ancient Greek philosopher Plato's continuing debate about whether Atlantis existed there, really? And despite the long period of time, the question becomes every year more urgent in our time. After all, technology improved. And with its help there are additional opportunities to disprove or prove the authenticity or hypothetical nature of the legendary Atlantis. Proponents of its real existence are proof. But opponents in the meantime try to refute them. Who is right? Yet known for certain only one thing: finally there has not been proven just as nor disproved.