What Makes These Giant Seafloor 'Tracks'?

Looks like the undersea cable network...

...."Just how big is this network?

TeleGeography lists nearly 350 cables — some cross oceans, others follow coasts down along continents. The whole network of submarine cables spans more than 550,000 miles, with some being buried as far underwater as Mount Everest towers above ground.

How are they laid?

The cables connect to "landing stations" along the seaboard. Massive cable-laying ships go on voyages to lay the fibre along the ocean floor —plowing across the sea floor to bury the cables. Naturally, their courses are plotted to run along flat seabed as much as possible, avoiding coral reefs and ship wrecks as well the deep trenches or undersea mountains."...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-undersea-cables-that-power-your-internet-and-why-theyre-at-a6710581.html

Buried cables would seem to fit the general shape of many of the tracks.

However couple things seem to indicate otherwise

The width of the tracks is at least a mile on the ones I can find. Some are more than five miles wide. Perhaps I have the idea of a cable trench greatly underestimated, but that seems far and away excessive.

There are several places where the tracks form loops and other places that look as if it were driven like a snow plow clearing a parking lot.

Still other tracks simply stop in the middle of no where. Laying a thousand miles of cable and quitting no where near land seems improbable.

I appreciate your input.

From the scale on the bottom of the map, they seem to be greater than 1km wide. Maybe Netmaker would be able to elaborate as to whether these patters might be from trawlers covering a section of the sea, going from one side to the other and then turning back.

There is another pattern around 40km to the SW that looks like "pillow block" optics pattern on a ridge that seem too geometric to be "natural", like a series of bunkers.

Interesting find!

Major changes to the sea floor due to huge fishing nets being dragged across it. Maybe NetMaker would like to claim the 5th.

Many of us at CR4 have helped NetMaker do the fishy things he does. Maybe we should claim the 5th also.

It's odd that last month when Area 51 was invaded there were no aliens found. I wonder where they all went? Can we find any evidence of where all those huge flying saucers may have gone to hide? They are big and when they land or take off they always leave a long and wide trail of destruction through the corn field next to the trailer park. Where could they be now?

Pulling nets across the sea floor that produce miles wide tracks of long lasting track marks would probably take a very powerful ship. I think the width of these tracks makes this explanation unlikely.

I think I'm seeing the same pattern:

The image isn't very clear, but what I'm seeing is directly south of the reference point. My first impression was of a hammered stamp, as of a silversmith.

In any case it really is interesting!

Bottom trawler(benthic) mud trails off the coast of Louisiana.....

Probably a combination of ocean currents, pipelines and cable runs, bottom trawler fishing, frame stitching of satellite images, alien activity....

There are some weird looking natural phenomena under the sea matey....

Natural seismic fissures may be partially straight, but eventually veer off to one side, to some extent, if left in their natural state. Criss-crossing ''tracks'' are very untypical features, at nearly a mile wide and crossing bottom slopes, ''ignoring'' dramatic elevation changes, in some instances. It collectively looks like ''ribbons'' of the underlying rock strata were systematically exposed as part of a comprehensive program for further study. (ocean geologists ?) might be able to venture a comparative guess as to when some of the substrata was exposed... The widespread nature of the ''ribbons-of-exposure'' suggests semi-systematic disturbance by, as yet, unspecified organised entities for, as yet, unspecified purposes, by parties to be identified at a later date... Rod Serling would know for sure... or maybe Edgar Cayce?...

Is it possible that the area has been "mined" for mineral nuggets? The regularity of the width and systematic method looks almost like ploughing a filed. The irregularity at the southern portion is almost like equipment "bogged" during turning too sharply.

This does seem the most plausible explanation.

Was talking to my Scotch mate Glen Livet and he says they were probably made by "Nessie's" American cousin having a crawl along the bottom.

Could also be the sonar tracks of vessels hunting/looking for something which sorta, kinda explains the "loops" as a vessel reverses course to parallel its original track with the sonar still active and recording - there is a triangle in the image (if you zoom out a bit) and Bermuda is nearby...maybe someone lost a sub?

They could be the tracks made by Aircraft carriers. These vessels tend to go back and forth in the same areas during landing/takeoffs and it is close to the airfield where the F35s are based. A large vessel travelling at speed, (25nk+) would create a lot of deep water turbulence which would tend to hang around and spread slowly, rather like high altitude vapour trails. The tracks could also be submarines on sea trials.

If you want to see the typical tracks of a carrier on trial have a look at the 'Vessel Finder' site and search for HMS Prince of Wales operating in the Moray Firth off the North east coat of Scotland.

The satellite cameras sometimes play tricks when viewing water images.

possibly turbulence from subs?

Scallop dredging used to be big business of the Carolina coasts,before the cow nosed skate became overpopulated due to excessive killing of it's main predator:sharks.

The Skates migrate down the coast at the prime reproductive times of the scallops, which are a favorite food,and now scallops are hard to find in these areas.

Underwater fences have been installed to help deter the skates and to reestablish the scallop population.

There are more of these tracks further north of the mentioned location.

Perhaps some of these tracks are fences, or the remains of a previous industry but they seem much too large to me.

Could it be from Beach replenishment along the Carolina coast? They vacuum up sand from offshore and pump the slurry onto the beach.

Maybe it's this guy?

Auroral Chladni (plus Cetacean music of the spheres speculation)

These are Chladni patterns formed by "ground plane images" of
electromagnetic currents generated from HAARP, 60 and 50 cycle long
distance power transmissions, and natural auroral phenomena causing
patterned faint liquefaction of the sand in otherwise placid bottom water.

The patterns are electromagnetic radio frequency and acoustic phoneme
Fourier transforms of standing magnetic field wave agitation of slightly
magnetic suspended particulates above bedrock geometric features and are
particularly strong where there are conductivity anomalies in the bedrock.
The viscosity and conductivity of the sea water, the density and magnetic
properties of the sand between the bottom and the bedrock, and very slow
bottom water migration patterns determine the geometries of "sand dune"
patterns above long seams of conductivity in the bedrock.

Some observe that whales hear this "music of the spheres" and sing back to it.

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thewildotter

Dredging to rebuild the beaches after the hurricane.