The Island didn’t sink
It teleported there.
I don’t believe in the “the hydrogen bomb went off and made the island sink” stuff. I know it’s a TV show, but in reality, those bombs can obliterate things it touches. Underwater, we see that everything’s intact (minus the rustiness). Others say that the volcano could have made the island sink. Again, the volcano needed to be really powerful to sink an island, and apparently the lava didn’t want to touch Dharmaville. Then again, it’s more logical than the hydrogen bomb.
But the most possible way of it being underwater is the most relevant to the show. Remember when Ben turned the donkeywheel at the end of Season 3 (or 4, I forgot) and the Island magically teleported to a different part of the ocean (or so we think)? Well, I think the same happened here, but due to the interaction with the hydrogen bomb, it teleported where it wasn’t supposed to.
Instead of having the island “move” elsewhere on water, it “moved” underwater thanks to the bomb and the psycho magnet.
Maybe they had to show us the island under water with everything still there just to show us that it was the island??? good thoughts though 🙂
Interesting. Most plausible explaination I’ve heard so far.
That’s because the island is a spaceship.
The hydrogen bomb could very well have caused the island to sink. It’s an island only in that it’s surrounded by water but it’s definitely not like any other normal island in one very important way and that is now it is attached to the bottom of the ocean and how part of it stays above water. The island has been moved physical as we’ve seen before but that doesn’t work very well with what we know about islands… so it must be different. I’d have to guess that these energy pockets around the island (like at the Swan and the Orchid) have something to do with its ability to stay dry. If the hydrogen bomb destroyed one of those pockets it could have slipped under the surface of the water.
The whole reason that the island can move around is the electromagnetic quality about it. Now this is not a natural feature of the island as shown by the donkey wheel. It is a mechanical process and the bomb destroyed that “machine” so that is why it sank…..it is just a rock in the Ocean now…..
Ya I agree with Highbrow, the island seemed to be not connected to the ocean floor and I think the proof of the bomb sinking the island would be the Island stayed at the same exact spot that the 1977 bomb put it, underwater in that location & its in the same location it was during 2004 when they crashed so it wasnt moved & accidentally end up underwater.