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  • These Underwater Mountains Are More Dangerous Than They Look

    These Underwater Mountains Are More Dangerous Than They Look

    The ocean can look enormously peaceful, like a postcard sent from heaven by someone on Xanax. Under the surface, things aren’t nearly so calm and picturesque. And on the coast of North Africa, the UK’s Royal Navy found another salty hazard: Two previously unmapped underwater mountains, jutting up from the seabed.