{"id":176818,"date":"2023-11-26T10:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/expedition-reveals-enormous-ocean-mountain-twice-as-high-as-burj-khalifa"},"modified":"2023-11-26T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T16:25:50","slug":"expedition-reveals-enormous-ocean-mountain-twice-as-high-as-burj-khalifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/expedition-reveals-enormous-ocean-mountain-twice-as-high-as-burj-khalifa","title":{"rendered":"Expedition reveals enormous ocean mountain twice as high as Burj Khalifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/expedition-reveals-enormous-ocean-mountain-twice-as-high-as-burj-khalifa2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile there is so much we\u2019ve come to understand, so much remains unknown in our Ocean\u2013and we are thrilled to continue exploring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocean explorers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute have unveiled a colossal underwater mountain, challenging our perceptions of the ocean\u2019s mysterious depths.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Schmidt Ocean Institute.<\/p>\n<p>This seamount, found in international waters off the coast of Guatemala, stands at a staggering 5,249 feet (1,600 meters), dwarfing the Burj Khalifa, the world\u2019s tallest building. The revelation came during a seafloor mapping expedition to explore the Earth\u2019s least understood frontier aboard the research vessel Falkor (too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile there is so much we\u2019ve come to understand, so much remains unknown in our Ocean\u2013and we are thrilled to continue exploring.\u201d Ocean explorers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute have unveiled a colossal underwater mountain, challenging our perceptions of the ocean\u2019s mysterious depths. Schmidt Ocean Institute. This seamount, found in international waters off the coast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}