{"id":214993,"date":"2025-05-29T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/lost-city-deep-beneath-the-ocean-is-unlike-anything-weve-seen-before-on-earth"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:09:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:09:25","slug":"lost-city-deep-beneath-the-ocean-is-unlike-anything-weve-seen-before-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/lost-city-deep-beneath-the-ocean-is-unlike-anything-weve-seen-before-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lost City\u2019 Deep Beneath The Ocean Is Unlike Anything We\u2019ve Seen Before on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lost-city-deep-beneath-the-ocean-is-unlike-anything-weve-seen-before-on-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.<\/p>\n<p>Their creamy carbonate walls and columns appear ghostly blue in the light of a remotely operated vehicle sent to explore.<\/p>\n<p>They range in height from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/oceanus\/feature\/lost-city-pumps-life-essential-chemicals-at-rates-unseen-at-typical-black-smokers\/\">tiny stacks the size of toadstools to a grand monolith<\/a> standing 60 meters (nearly 200 feet) tall. This is the Lost City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom. Their creamy carbonate walls and columns appear ghostly blue in the light of a remotely operated vehicle sent to explore. They range in height from tiny stacks the size of toadstools to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214993","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}