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The depths of our seas and oceans hold many mysteries and mankind has always been most thrilled to find answers to numerous folklores and natural phenomenon that occur on the ocean beds. This quest for the underwater world of mysteries has been led to the immense success achieved by marine tourism that in the recent times has seen magnificent surge. [...]

Pavlopetri, off the southern coast of the Pelopennese in Greece, dates back to around 3000 BC. Sunk into the Mediterranean Sea, it breaks the antiquity record as the world’s oldest underwater town. The Greek government discovered the submerged town in 1967 but just recently announced that ‘5000-year-old pottery fragments have been recovered from [...]