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A recent update of Google Earth corrected a three-year old error showing a grid on the ocean floor resembling an underwater city. The image went on to spark conspiracy theories that the mythical city of Atlantis had been discovered.

Turns out it was just an error, due to incomplete data of the ocean floor. Google Oceans, which is an extension of Google Earth, was recently revamped with more accurate data.

"The original version of Google Ocean was a newly developed prototype map that had high resolution but also contained thousands of blunders related to the original archived ship data," said David Sandwell, a geophysicist at Scripps Institute of Oceanography.

Google Ocean updated to correct grid alleged to be the underwater city of "Atlantis."

One of the most talked about changes is the correction of a "grid-like artifact on the seafloor." While discovering Atlantis would have been thrilling, the reality is far from it. According to the NOAA, the grid was created by an overlapping data set.

Read more at CBSNews.com.

(And don't tell Montana native Patrick Duffy that Atlantis doesn't exist.)