In 1968, the American meteorological satellite ESSA-7 transmitted strange images to Earth that baffled scientists. The photographs in the North Pole area clearly show a huge hole of the correct round shape.
ESSA-3 and ESSA-7 images of the North Pole
The authenticity of the pictures is beyond doubt. But how can this phenomenon be explained? Several hypotheses have been put forward. For example, skeptics believe that this is not an opening at all, but a play of light and shadow, the result of the tilt of the planet in relation to the sun's rays. Hollow Earth theorists, however, were confident that the ESSA-7 image showed the opening of the dungeon entrance.
But most scientists have a different opinion.
School puzzle about the pool
From school, we know that the mighty warm North Atlantic Current, an extension of the Gulf Stream, is sweeping far north into the Arctic. But what attracts him to the North Pole? Geography textbooks explain this phenomenon by the rotation of the Earth.
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However, another powerful current (only cold) from the Pacific Ocean rushes into the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait. If it were controlled by the rotation of the Earth, the current would have to move eastward, along Alaska and across the Beaufort Sea to the shores of Canada. And, contrary to theory, it carries its waters to the northwest, gravitating, again, to the North Pole.
And now the school problem about the pool. Water enters the Arctic Ocean as if through three "taps". The largest, with warm water, from the Atlantic - 298 thousand cubic kilometers per year. The second, with cold water, from the Pacific Ocean through the Bering Strait - 36 thousand cubic kilometers per year. The third is the fresh flow of the rivers of Siberia and Alaska - 4 thousand cubic kilometers per year.
In total, 338 thousand cubic kilometers of water are poured into this basin annually. And the discharge occurs across the Atlantic, through the Faroe-Shetland Canal, which only passes 63 thousand cubic kilometers per year. There are no other known drains. Meanwhile, the water level in the Arctic Ocean is not increasing. Where does the "extra" water go?
Spiral movement
In 1948, by order of Stalin, a high-latitude air expedition "North-2" was organized under the leadership of the head of the Glavsevmorput, Alexander Kuznetsov. It included Pavel Gordienko, Pavel Senko, Mikhail Somov, Mikhail Ostrekin and other polar explorers.
The expedition took place in an atmosphere of complete secrecy. There were no reports about her in the media. The materials of the expedition were declassified only in 1956.
On April 23, 1948, the expedition members took off on three planes from Kotelny Island, heading for the North Pole. During the flight, experienced polar explorers were alarmed by the view under the wing: there is too much open water, which is not at all typical for such high latitudes at this time of year.
At 16:44 Moscow time, the planes landed on a large ice floe. It was approached by people who became the first indisputable conquerors of the North Pole.
Descending from the ladder, the members of the expedition looked around - and were greatly surprised. Gloomy gray sky, not cold at all. The weather is like a thaw during winter in the Central zone.
But there was no time to think about this oddity for a long time: you need to set up camp, set up tents to rest after a hard flight, and then start observing.
However, there was no rest. The life of the polar explorers was saved by the fact that the guard, who was prudently left outside, noticed a crack that split the ice shell right under the ski of the landing gear of one of the aircraft. The people who poured out of the tents at the alarm signal watched in horror as the gaping black rift widened before our eyes. A rushing stream of water seethed in it, from which steam was flowing.
The huge ice floe split into pieces. People rushed away, caught up in the mighty current. A hummock with a red banner crowning the conquered "point zero" disappeared in the swirling misty haze. And the unimaginable was happening around.
“The ice was rushing at an incredible speed,” Pavel Senko, a specialist in the study of the Earth's magnetic field, said later, “as you can imagine only on a river in an ice drift. And this movement continued for more than a day!
At first, the sextant showed that the ice floe was being swiftly carried to the south by the expedition. But further measurements showed that the direction of movement is changing all the time. Finally, one of the polar explorers guessed that they were drifting around the pole, describing circles with a diameter of about nine nautical miles.
Once a seal swam past the ice floe and even tried to climb onto it, but the speed of the stream did not allow. Where did it come from at the pole? After all, seals live only at the borders of the Arctic Circle.
Soon the polar explorers became convinced with horror that the radius of the circles described by the ice floe was constantly decreasing. That is, the trajectory of movement is a centripetal spiral. People seemed to be sucked into a giant funnel, the center of which was at the point of the North Pole.
On the third day of the drift, when there was almost no hope of salvation, the temperature suddenly dropped sharply, while the circulation slowed down.
Gradually, the pieces of ice were tightly rubbed against each other, froze and again became a solid monolithic shield. The miraculously saved expedition got the opportunity to return to the mainland.
Scared submarine
At the beginning of the 21st century, a marine geologist and professor at the University of Hawaii Margot Edwards, who led the work on creating a detailed map of the Arctic Ocean floor, managed to get access to a secret report from the US Navy archives.
She learned that in the 70s of the last century, an American submarine mapped the seabed in the North Pole region. But the submariners failed to complete this task to the end.
The crew was frightened by the constant strong hum coming from the depths of the ocean. In addition, some mighty force all the time strove to divert the submarine from the course. It was as if she was being sucked into a giant whirlpool. Not wishing to further tempt fate, the commander decided to leave the dangerous area.
“We thought that we already knew practically everything about the structure of our planet, but it turns out that we were wrong,” concludes Margot Edwards.
Death of the rescuer
In 1998, Andrey Rozhkov, an experienced scuba diver, a world-renowned rescuer who was called the pride of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, organized his own expedition to the North Pole.
She prepared very carefully, all the details of the upcoming operation to the smallest detail were worked out during numerous training dives under the ice. Therefore, Andrei Rozhkov had no doubts about the success of his plans.
On April 22 (that is, half a century after the North-2 expedition) Rozhkov and five of his comrades arrived at the North Pole.
They cut a scuba well, reinforcing its walls in case of breakage and ice movements. Rozhkov and his partner were lowered into an ice well and went under water. Soon the partner surfaced, as it was planned.
Andrei continued his dive, wanting not only to be the first scuba diver at the Pole, but also to conquer the depth of 50 meters. And this was also included in the plan. The underwater equipment had the necessary safety margin. The last signal from Rozhkov came when he reached 50.3 meters.
What exactly happened next - no one knows. He did not rise to the surface. The partner tried to come to the aid of a friend. However, immediately after the dive, he was caught up by such a rapid current that the scuba diver was forced to give the signal to rise up.
The cycle rate remained unchanged for about a day. There could be no question of any new immersion. Andrey Rozhkov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
Will there be subtropics in Siberia?
What is this polar funnel? According to the hypothesis of the Russian researcher Kirill Fatyanov, in the immemorial times of Hyperborea, it functioned constantly, not allowing a huge ice cap to grow at the pole, threatening the planet with "overturning" and a worldwide flood as a result (for those interested, we refer to his book "The Legend of Hyperborea").
After the planetary war of Hyperborea with its colony Atlantis, both continents sank to the bottom of the sea, the circulation of currents was disrupted, and the polar whirlpool disappeared. But in the 20th century, he periodically began to resume his activities, and now this is happening more and more often. What does this promise the Earth? Perhaps the climate will indeed return to the Cenozoic era, when there were subtropics in Siberia.
Victor MEDNIKOV, magazine "Secrets of the XX century", October 2016
