Atlantis does not live after all

The Sun claimed this morning that it has discovered the Lost City of Atlantis by using Google earth in its edition this morning.

Nice try but unfortunately this is not the case according to Helen Bidd who explains that

It turns out the Sun was tipped off on this world exclusive by a man called Bernie Bamford, an aeronautical engineer who stumbled across the suspicious-looking gridlines while playing with a new version of Google Earth, which allows the browser to explore under the oceans.

However

Google piled in to spoil the party. It turns out the criss-crossing lines, located 600 miles west of the Canary Islands, are just sonar data collected as boats mapped the ocean floor.