Some observational results of sea storm current

Dr. Hollister, a marine geologist of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, first pointed out that there was ocean storm current in the ocean. He found out the wavy texture in the seabed core samples, and suggested that this wavy texture was caused by the high speed sea current in remote antiquity. He then suggested a bold hypothesis that there existed a benthic storm current near the ocean bottom, and presented this hypothesis at the IUGG conference held at San Francisco in 1963. Unfortunately, the attention was not drawn to the hypothesis at the conference, and the hypothesis was criticized as a sheer nonsense. However, Dr. Hollister was still confident of this hypothesis because only the benthic storm current hypothesis can give an explanation on some peculiar phenomena at the ocean bottom. The examples of these phenomena include vast stretches of bare rock or grooves at the ocean bottom and gravels of 1 cm in diameter in the surface layer stirred up from the muddy layer 20 to 40 cm below the ocean bottom. Since 1980s, it has been found that some scientific instruments and submarine cables installed in deep waters were destroyed when the Atlantic huricane attacked the American east coast, which made people accept Hollister's hypothesis of benthic storm current.