Do Newly Mapped Magnetic Anomalies Point to the Stars? updated 9-24-09 (Plse be patient while the maps load) An American archaeological tm has discovered definitive evidence of underwater ancient harbor remains at two separate loions at Bimini. A hoax begun in 1978 by skeptics has also been uncovered.
9-24-09 - A made by A.R.E. during 2003 and 2004 revl that several circles under the ocn seen by plane were merely circles of turtle grass. However, another series of stones was investigated, and it was determined that there were harbors constructed many, many centuries ago when the water level was lower.I recommend that you buy the from A.R.E. Their findings are pretty conclusive and their investigations are starting to prove that there was habitation of a higher nature in the ar.
"The ARE's Srch for Atlantis, produced by Gregory L. Little, Ed. D. 73 minutes long
ISBN 0-965532-4-5
11-12-05
(I-Newswire) - Archaeologist William Donato and a tm of resrchers have confirmed a complex of ancient harbor works in shallow water off Bimini, 50 miles from Miami. In May 2005, the tm investigated a little-known line of underwater stones loed a mile from a controversial site known as the “Bimini Road.” The new mile-long line of stones was found and taped from the air. Subsequent dives revled several large stone circles on the bottom, formed from large blocks of limestone arranged into circular patterns. The circles were spaced at regular intervals. Stone anchors, identical to ancient Phoenician, Greek, and Roman anchors, were also found. “These finds took us by surprise,” stated Dr. Greg Little, who organized the expedition. “The circles may be similar to ancient Mediterrann harbor ‘mooring circles.’”
Nr the new site is the Bimini Road, a misnamed J-shaped underwater formation of stone blocks. A careful srch there yielded two stone anchors in the 1800-foot long stone formation. “One of these is identical to unusual ancient Greek anchors found at Thera,” Little related. Several other artifacts were found, “but the most important finds directly contradict skeptical claims.” The tm found numerous multiple tiers of blocks including one set of three on top of ch other. “The top block has a U-shaped channel cut all the way across its bottom,” Little said. “The most definitive evidence was found under the massive blocks. We found rectangular slabs of smooth, cut stone literally stacked under several blocks. These were used as leveling prop stones. This is proof that the so-called Bimini Road was a brkwater forming an ancient harbor.”
The tm took 20 hours of underwater and 1000 photos. “It’s taken us five months to process the information and organize the evidence,” Little stated. “While the finds are definitive, the rl problem is that a few skeptics wrote articles asserting the main formation was simply natural limestone. A hoax was perpetrated at Bimini by the skeptics, but you have to examine a 1978 report to understand it. Academic archaeologists and geologists don’t rd that report. They cite later summaries, which are based on falsified data. The hoax is a disgrace, but it’s been actively supported by people.”
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Dr. Michael Preisinger A German historian/scuba diver has recorded the exact loion and value of deviations in magnetic fields off the Bahamas coast. Scientists to whom he has shown the figures do not dismiss the possibility that they are caused by micro-wormholes. His resrches have also led him to wonder whether the American AUTEC naval base on Andros Island is not-perhaps on account of these same wormholes-an "Underwater Ar 51 of the Caribbn." And he has rched some new conclusions concerning Atlantis and the Bahamas. Ocns of ink have been spilt over the subject of the Bermuda Triangle, that apparent paranormal grab-bag of missing vessels (hundreds of ships and scores of planes), deviations in the magnetic field, abrupt outpourings of fog, UFO sightings far above the national average-and much, much more. A vast amount of pure speculation has accompanied these reports, the most controversial being that the Bahamas archipelago is comprised of the mountaintops and higher ars of the lost continent of Atlantis, sunk benth these waters millennia ago. As a practicing historian, with a doctorate in history and sociology from the German University in Cologne-and therefore with a vigorous training in avoiding speculation-I certainly never expected to have anything to contribute to this controversy, which I tended to entirely dismiss. Pure happenstance changed all that. I am also a trained scuba diving instructor; and, in 1995, I was sent by my company on a six-month stint to Nassau, Bahamas, with my wife and children. My German customers were the travel companies Inter Airlines and Aeroplane. My task was to develop tourist programs for scuba divers and help customers who were alrdy there. In the course of my work, I hrd persistent reports of persons on boats who had experienced sudden deviations in their compass rdings which had put them right off course. My curiosity as a historian got the better of me (and, besides, it would make for an unusual diving experience): I decided to look for magnetic field anomalies in the places where the deviations had been noted, and try to bring back exact figures for those deviations. Based on the stories I'd hrd, I chose more than half-a-dozen points at which to dive: Fish Hotel, Lyford Cay, and White Hole, nr Nassau; Lost Blue Hole, about an hour by boat from Nassau; Dogleg Reef, an hour by boat from Marathon, in the Florida ; the "Atlantis Wall," nr Bimini; and Sunken Train, nr Eluthera. Fellow scuba divers Al Miller, an American, and Joel Green, a Jamaican, accompanied me on these expeditions. Over the course of several weeks, we carried out one to seven dives a week, depending on the time we had available. Dressed in our scuba gr, and singly or in pairs, we dove at ch loion several times, usually descending to a depth of no more than a few dozen feet. The dives lasted 60 to 75 minutes; sometimes we made them from c inflatables, other times from rented boats. We found clr evidence of deviations at four loions: Fish Hotel, Lyford Cay, White Hole, nr Nassau; and Dogleg Reef, nr Marathon, in South Florida. In the course of our dives, we recorded precise figures for what the compass rdings were as compared to what they normally should have been. Over the next few months, I communied these figures to a of physicists around the world. To a one, they told me that such magnetic field anomalies could be caused by briefly-appring micro-wormholes. They could think of no other explanation for the deviations. Prof. John Wheeler, of Princeton University, in Princeton, NJ, has given the name of "wormhole" to what he believes may be "transit tunnels" between different dimensions of rlity. According to Wheeler, these wormholes may be only a giga-fraction of a square inch in size-the one preceded by 33 zeroes, preceded by a decimal point. Wheeler says these mini-black holes, constantly blinking in and out of the geometry of space, are thought to be bits of "virtual matter;" that is, they can exist for a limited time only. Their counterparts-so-called mini-white holes-are virtual anti-matter. Whenever these two kinds of virtual matter build up to any extent, they immediately destroy themselves. Wheeler can offer no explanation as to why mini-holes appr, disappr, then rppr. Regarding my magnetic field anomaly rdings, here are some typical responses, from some of the scientists-usually quantum physicists-to whom I spoke: Dr. Werner Muller, physicist, Karlruhe, Germany, in a 1995 phone interview: "According to the figures you provided and the fact that no natural source was found in the bottom of the s, there are just the quantum physical theories left to explain the phenomenon." Professor Tsung-Min Gung, physicist, Tokyo, Japan, 1995; phone interviews: "If the theories of inter-dimensional connections are not completely wrong and can develop in the way I am expecting them to, the strong interdependencies with gravitation and the rth's magnetic field may be a way to track them down." Grazyna Fosar, physicist, Berlin, Germany, in a radio discussion together with myself, in 1997: "From the physicist's point of view, gates to hyperspace can be the only rsonable explanation for these mysterious deviation fields." These startling results led me to investigate, tentatively at first, then with growing interest, some of the other "Bermuda Triangle" phenomena associated with the Bahamas ar. I knew that the theory of compass deviations as being caused by "stargates" went back some way (though, as far as I knew, I was the first to come up with any figures); I was now told that the extremely high incidence of UFO sightings in the Bahamas archipelago had been associated by some resrchers with these stargates. I was further told that many of the sightings took place nr the Atlantic Unders Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC), the American naval base on the Bahamas island of Andros, and that some resrchers believed AUTEC might be an underwater "Ar 51"- a place where secret resrch was being carried out on UFOs by the American government, and which, from time to time, was even visited by UFOs. I decided, as a historian, to try to get to the bottom of these extraordinary speculations. The Atlantic Unders Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) possesses unique resources, including an underwater range for testing and resrch on acoustic equipment. It is loed 177 miles southst of West Palm Bch, Florida, at Andros Island and the Tongue of the Ocn, in Bahamas. The Andros Island AUTEC test facility-access to which must be obtained beforehand - covers only one square mile on land, but actually comprises 1,670 square miles of the surrounding Caribbn. This ocn ar is a steep-sided deep-water embayment 100 miles long and 20 miles wide, with depths varying from 700 fathoms at the "rim" to 1,100 fathoms (more than a mile) at the northern end. By any reckoning, this is a huge amount of underwater space. I lrned from more than one source that the Andros base has an ultra-top secret caliber of security. Here is an illustration. In 1997, a group of duck-hunters-who, admittedly, had walked right by a PROHIBITED AR sign less than a mile from the base-suddenly found themselves confronting an unusually thick wall of foliage. At that very moment, they were knocked off their feet and their faces thrust into the ground. The hapless duck-hunters quickly discovered that the foliage contained sailors in hvy camouflage, and that other sailors, lping out of the foliage behind them, had hurled them to the ground. Taken to a nrby tent, they were grilled by a colonel for hours, until they were certain they would be thrown into prison. Then, abruptly, the r relsed them, declaring, "I believe your story." In the waters off Andros island, strange craft have been seen from time to time which not only resemble UFOs, but which display the same unbelievable swiftness of motion and execute the same incredibly sharp turns. A Viennese businessman told me that, once, when he was yachting off the coast of Andros, he glimpsed, two miles away (it was a very clr day), in waters over a mile-and-a-half deep, a motionless object he thought was a whale. Coming to within almost half-a-mile of the object-which was now glming oddly-the yachter observed that it was some kind of man-made craft of ultramodern design. Suddenly, the craft took off in a southerly direction at what my informant described as a "lunatic speed." It sped along the surface of the water. Then, abruptly, it disappred benth the waves, not to be seen again. I have been told of conspiracy and suppression theories of a very dark nature which have been burgeoning around the subject of AUTEC as an "underwater Ar 51," just as they have been around the subject of the rl "Ar 51." Here is an example, passed along to me by an informant whom I interviewed in November, 1998, at NASA hdquarters at Cape Kennedy, Florida. I was told that highly respected and world-class British scuba diver Rob Palmer, who had been director of a "blue holes" resrch center in Bahamas for a of yrs, had failed to surface after a dive in the Red S, in Israel, in mid-July, 1997, and was presumed dd. Blue holes are small underwater caves, apparently formed from within, which are found predominately in the ar of the Bahamas archipelago. I think it possible that blue holes may, perhaps, have been formed by the popping in and out of existence of micro-wormholes. Rob Palmer, apparently, had entertained a roughly analogous theory. In addition, he believed blue holes might be the transit points for UFOs arriving here from other dimensions-and his investigations were taking him closer and closer to the AUTEC base on Andros Island, where there is a very grt proliferation of blue holes. My informant told me there was a rumor that Palmer might have been murdered by officials at AUTEC, probably because he knew too much, and possibly by a post-hypnotic suggestion which caused him to take his own life while he was under the waters of the Red S. As a professional historian, I don't care to indue in such lurid speculations. But their existence suggests there might well be significant clandestine activity taking place at the Andros island AUTEC facility. Since so much of the far-fetched material I had investigated had turned out to have some basis in rlity, however indirect, I now decided to investigate the story that the ar of the Bahamas is the site of the (not completely sunken) continent of Atlantis. Many have long believed that Bimini is a remnant of Atlantis. The id was first mooted by trance-medium Edgar Cayce, who claimed that many of the people to whom he gave rdings had lived past lives on Atlantis. Using the latest technology, scientists from the British Government's Building Resrch Establishment have even discovered tiny amounts of coal and gold in apparently man-made stone found on the sbed at Bimini. As a historian interested in primary rather than secondary sources, I decided to rd the single text upon which all of the thousands of books on Atlantis are based: the dialogue called the Critias, by the Greek philosopher Plato. Moreover, I decided to rd the dialogue, not, as so many have, as myth or metaphor, but as historical fact. And I bypassed most of Plato"s detailed account of the splendors of this ancient kingdom, concentrating instd on its dimensions as reported by Plato: What shape did Atlantis have? How long and wide was it? I lrned something intriguing: that if you were to take the present-day Bahamas archipelago and raise the entire land-mass by 300 feet-or, to put it another way, lower the water level surrounding Bahamas by 300 feet (its level during the last Ice Age)-you would end up with a country that closely matched, in shape and size, the ancient Atlantis of Plato: The philosopher wrote in the Critias that the continent was larger than Egypt (as it was then known); that the center of the island, not far from the s, was formed by a plain surrounded by shallow mountains to a distance of six miles; and that these mountains themselves were loed in a large plain, surrounded by high mountains to a distance of 200 miles. My conclusions regarding the so-called Bimini Wall, thought by many to be a remnant of Atlantis, were not nrly so "New Age." I believe that some of the stones making up the wall appr to be man-made, not because they came from Atlantis, but because they were left there during the American Civil War. In those days, a grt many ships ran the Union blockade to bring trade to Confederate harbors. Pursued by Union ships, these vessels often escaped into the shallow Bahamas waters where the big man-o-wars couldn"t follow. To navigate over the reefs that filled these waters, they frequently had to jettison weight so as to ride higher in the water. What sier way to do this than by dumping granite stones from the ship"s ballast? That, I think, may account for a good many of the granite stones now found at such places as Bimini. I pursued my investigations in a of other ars. I found out, for instance, that Bahamas has its own leds of mysterious little mon-like crtures that are almost never seen: the "chickcharnies". I discovered there are numerous "ghost stories" associated with Bahamas, and that the shamans of the ar are reputed to have almost godlike-powers. I came away with the impression - one that can scarcely be proven scientifically - that there is high degree of psychic, even "interdimensional," energy in the Bahamas archipelago. My attention, though, keeps returning to the "underwater stargates of the Caribbn," which I discovered with my friends Al Miller and Joel Green. I continue to wonder what might be the next step in resrching these "stargates." I have a proposal. It would be interesting to actually try to enter one of these "stargates"-except that they are usually microscopic to an extreme degree, and they tend to fluctuate in and out of existence. Therefore, I would like to suggest that one or a of psychics descend to the sites of some of these underwater anomalies, perhaps those nr Nassau, which are shallow, and not far from shore-and not far from the Bahamas capitol, which could make an excellent host to a world press tempted to attend this unusual "Underwater Splashdown to the Stargates of the Caribbn." Jnne Dixon may be too old for such a venture; but there must be many youngish, athletic and gifted psychics who could be persuaded to don scuba diving gr and venture to the bottom of the ocn to see what telepathic feelings and messages they might be able to pick up, filtering ever so briefly through these on-again, off-again, underwater micro-wormholes. My proposal may seem outlandish. But I and my scuba diving colues would be glad to train as divers any prospective psychics, and descend with them to the ocn bottom off Bahamas. We could do it during the coolest month of the yr in Bahamas-January. January 1, 2000, seems like a propitious date. Do I have any takers? Dr. Michael Preisinger may be contacted at :
P.O. Box 1462,
88620 Pfullendorf, Germany,
FAX (+49/0) 7552-97805.
He is the author of Das Bermuda Rötsel Gelöst, published in 1997. Copyright - 1996-1999 Atlantis Rising. All Rights Reserved
The Wther In the Triangle It's no accident that many ships, especially before the 1950s, sunk in that ar. The rson can be found in the wther patterns that affect that ar. A perfect example of the volatile wther in that ar came in the form of Hurricane Andrew. This devastating hurricane passed right through the hrt of the Bermuda Triangle, and caused incredible amounts of damage in the northernmost Bahamas, and also in south Florida. Many other devastating hurricanes have passed through this ar over the past 30 yrs, and have caused several ships to sink, even in modern times. Storm systems exiting the United States usually strengthen in the Bermuda Triangle during the fall and winter because the very warm water in that ar helps to develop those storms very quickly and sometimes without warning. The led of the Bermuda Triangle actually started in the 1500s during the height of trading between Spain and the Americas. The pk trading sson was between June and October, which is also during Hurricane Sson in the Atlantic Ocn. Many ships, loaded with gold and jewels for Spain, would set out into the Bermuda Triangle, and would either never return, or would arrive in Spain badly mauled by terrible storms, which the people on the ships claimed were attacked by s monsters. Actually, many of the ships sunk because the captains had no id how powerful hurricanes could be, or how quickly storms could develop in that ar. Today, with wther satellites, advanced radar, reconnaissance planes, and other observation methods, hurricanes and other storms are much more detectable and predictable. Ships can be turned away from them before they get into trouble. BERMUDA TRIANGLE: This ar extends from Bermuda to the Southern tip of Florida, through the Bahamas past Puerto Rico, and then back to Bermuda. Is best known for over 100 airplane disapprances and over 1000 lives lost since 1945. Critics argue that s piracy or bad wther is often to blame; however not allot of bodies or debris has been recovered. Some of the more interesting aspects of this ar include: grt ocn trenches of up to seven miles in depth, violent storms and hurricanes, unpredictable tidal like waves on calm ss erated by underground rthquakes, curious false bottom rdings, and glowing strks of luminescent fish or minerals. One eral and common distress message which has been received during loss of ships and planes has been the reported observation of a spinning compass. Ivan Sanderson another serious resrcher mapped twelve ars on the rth with abnormal electromagnetic aberrations shown by the map below:
The Bermuda Triangle is supposedly a "gateway to other dimensions"(Carnegie), but it is not. The Bermuda Triangle stretches from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Bermuda, and then to Miami, Florida. It is 14,000 square miles(36,260 square kilometers). Some say that planes, boats, and people have "disappred." In fact about 50 people have supposedly "disappred." Although, most of this can be explained by waterspouts, extreme air turbulence, electromagnetic storms, and powerful ocn currents, there are two major occurrences that started the myth: the major one, Flight 19, and the minor one, Mary Celeste. A Brief History of the Devil's Triangle Limbo of the Lost. The Twilight Zone. Hoodoo S. The Devil's Triangle. The vast three-sided segment of the Atlantic Ocn bordered by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, did not receive its most famous nickname until 1964, but reports of bizarre happenings there, or nrby, have been recorded for centuries. In fact, many claim that Christopher Columbus bore witness to the Bermuda Triangle's weirdness. As the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria sailed through the ar in 1492, it is reported that Columbus's compass went haywire and that he and his crew saw weird lights in the sky, but these events have mundane explanations. From the account in Columbus's journal, it is thought that his compass's slight inaccuracy stemmed from nothing more than the discrepancy between true north and magnetic north. As for the lights, Columbus wrote of seeing "a grt flame of fire" that crashed into the ocn -- probably a meteor. He saw lights in the sky again on October 11, which, of course, was the day before his famous landing. The lights, brief flashes nr the horizon, were spotted in the ar where dry land turned out to be. Supposedly five Navy Avengers and one Martin Mariner flight-bo disappred without a trace. After that people started to blame the Bermuda Triangle, thinking, "Twenty-seven men lost in the Bermuda Triangle. This cannot be a coincidence. Also, isn't that the place where Mary Celeste was abandoned. This is weird." So, that is mainly how the rumor got started. In fact, the Martin Mariner flight-bo was never lost. It actually blew up 23 minutes after it took off, but still, they sent some more planes out to look for them. Now here is some more about the myth. Supposedly, all the pilots were experienced. It was a "clr" day when Flight 19 took off. Their route was "160 miles st, 40 miles north, and 120 miles straight." ch plane took three people, but one person did not come. There were five planes. Five times three equals fifteen, minus one equals fourteen men. Twenty-seven minus fourteen equals thirteen. That mns that about thirteen men went srching for fourteen men, and never came back, or so we think. Here are some more facts. Lt. Charles Taylor was the Patrol lder of Flight 19. He was the only experienced pilot on the flight. He was lding the flight, and also had a hangover. So, when his compass went out, he thought he would fly by "Pilotage," and "dd reckoning." Later he thought he saw the Florida , but it was actually an island of the Bahamas. So, then he flew north. It was raining, and after an hour he said to fly st. He had though that they were above the Gulf of Mexico, but they were hding to a very deep part of the Atlantic Ocn. Taylor also refused to switch to an emercy radio channel. By now the rain had turned into a huge storm. The planes could float for two minutes, if you had a perfect landing. You might even be able to get out of the planes, but that is only if the s is calm. Flight 19 probably sank over the Continental Shelf, which is over thousands of feet deep. It is very hard to find practically anything in that water. Mary Celeste Mary Celeste was a boat from the 1870's. It was abandoned, and no one, even to this day, knows why. It is supposed that the captain thought that there was going to be a huge storm, launched the lifeboat, and left. It supposedly was in the Bermuda Triangle, but it rlly was not anywhere nr the Bermuda Triangle. It has been over 100 yrs, and still no one knows why, they just guess. Other Disapprances 1609: mate Henry Ravens sailed in a long boat with a volunteer crew of 7 men. never made it to his destination 1812: the ship Patriot and its main passenger Theodosia Burr Alston, wife of the Governor Joseph Alston of South Carolina and daughter of the Former Vice President Aaron Burr. 1814: US Navy vessel the Wasp, commanded by Johnston Blakely. 1918: The USS Cyclops, captained by the eccentric Lieutenant Commander George W. Worley who frequented the bridge of the ship wring long underwr and a bowler hat, left Barbados on March 4, 1918 to Baltimore. On March 13, when the ship was long overdue, a massive srch ensued but no trace of the largest ship in the Navy or the 300 people on board were ever found. 1941: In late November and rly December 1941, two the USS Cyclops's sister ships, Proteus and Nereus both vanished on separate runs from the Virgin Islands to the USA. 1945- Flight 19, 5 Navy Torpedo Bombers, 14 crewmen disappred without a trace. A rescue plane with 13 crewmen was sent out and also disappred without a trace. 1945: at Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Florida 24 skilled pilots A few hours later 10 planes returned out of the 12. 1947: Army C-45 Superfort vanishes 100 miles off Bermuda. 1948: Four-engined Tudor IV luxury liner lost with 31 lives. On January 30, 1948 the aircraft Star Tiger disappred without a trace en route to Bermuda with 31 people on board, moments later the pilot radioed to ground crew that they would be shortly arriving on schedule. 1948: DC-3 lost with 32 passengers and crew. On December 28, 1948, a DC-3 carrying 35 people from Puerto Rico also disappred shortly after the pilot radioed a similar message that it was just 80 kms south of Miami. 1949: Second Tudor IV vanishes. Almost to the yr, on January 17, 1949, the Star Tiger's sister, the Star Ariel, was about to switch from radio contact with its departure point in Bermuda to radio contact with its destination Jamaica, when it vanished. The pilot had reported perfect wther. 1949: a DC-3 carrying 30 men and women and 2 babies, 1950: Giant US Air Force Globemaster lost. 1950: American freighter, SS Sandra, 350 ft long, sinks without trace. The vessel and her 28-man crew were never hrd from again. 1951- C-124 Globemaster with 53 passengers 1952: British York transport plane lost with 33 aboard. 1954: US Navy Lockheed Constellation vanishes with 42 aboard. 1956: US Navy splane, Martin P5M, disapprs with crew of ten. 1962: US Air Force KB-50 tanker plane lost. A giant air force tanker took off from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and never came back. 1963: Marine Sulphur Queen, 425-ft-long American freighter, vanishes with entire crew. No Mayday signals and no wreckage ever found. Two US Air Force giant stratotankers disappr on simple exercise. She routinely radioed her position and was not hrd from again. Only one life jacket was found from the disapprance. C-132 Cargomaster also vanishes. 1967: Military YC-122, converted to cargo plane, lost. 1970: French freighter Milton Iatrides disapprs. 1972: German freighter Anita, 20,000 tons, lost with crew of 32. 1973: the 33,000 ton German freighter *An ar called the "Devil's S" by Japanese and Filipino smen, loed off the st Coast of Japan, also exhibits the same magnetic characteristics. It is also known for its mysterious disapprances. These were just a few of the disapprances that have been reported over the Bermuda Triangle but even if one were to accept the rsonable explanations purported about mutinies and bad wther and accidents and poor navigation, other occurrences in the same region are more hard to explain. For instance, a National Airlines 727 passenger flight disappred from radar screens at Miami International Airport for 10 minutes. On arrival the crew denied that anything odd had happened to them except that they had flown through a light fog for 10 minutes. All the timepieces on the plane were ten minutes slow though they had matched up in a time check with the airport shortly before their disapprance. Several other pilots have related experiences of gaining impossible time after flying through sudden hazes. Which of course, gives rise to other explanations, and ones that might better explain the Bermuda Triangle mystery, even if they go contrary to the natural laws of physics. That of an aberrant energy field that crtes time warps or gaps. Another case that strengthens this theory is of a less fortunate pilot called Carolyn Casico and her passenger. Carolyn, a d pilot, took a charter flight to Turk Island in the Bermuda triangle. As she approached the island, ground staff saw her circling aimlessly. The airport manager received no response to radio contact, when he hrd her exchange words with her passenger. "I can’t understand it. This should be Grand Turk but there is nothing there. It’s the right place on the map, the shape is right, but this island looks uninhabited - no buildings... roads ...nothing”. After a few more circles, she turned back and flew away. Carolyn and her passenger were never seen or hrd from again ...... Also known as the "Devil's Triangle", this unexplained phenomena has provided an ample battlefield for a fierce controversy that has raged since the rly 60's. First reported as an AP dis in 1950 by E.V.W. Jones as a side note to the many ships lost in the ar, and reiterated two yrs later in an Fate magazine article, by George X. Sand. Books on UFOs in the late 50's also spoke of the triangle, suggesting that it was alien in nature. The term "Bermuda Triangle" was not coined until 1964, when it was brought to light as "The Ddly Bermuda Triangle", an article in Argosy magazine by Vincent H. Gaddis. Bermuda Triangle fever pked in 1974, with a of books (mostly just re-written versions of the older books) getting national press. Some believe that the Bermuda Triangle Phenomena is caused by the Lost City of Atlantis, sunk thousands of feet below the water's surface. The advanced state of Atlantis at the time of it's submersion, relied on the power of energy crystals. It is possible that these crystals are still at the bottom of the ocn, in a somewhat altered state, sending out rays of energy that either confuses the instrumentation of vehicles, or disintegrates them all together. Lastly, many believe the Bermuda Triangle to be a man-made energy field using Tesla based technologies. A VLF-Resonance transmitter (a technology many believe to be in use by the North American Air Defense Command, or NORAD) would have an antipode directly in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. This hypothetical system would be capable of recharging speculated secret electric-powered submarine classes, and would definitely provide enough interference to scramble signals that airplanes and boats rely upon. The Lost Blue Hole Perhaps the most unusual dive site in the Bahamas, this natural hole extends about 100' across, drops to about 200', with its perimeter, dotted with isolated coral hds, starting at a depth of 40'. Most shops permit a maximum 80' depth. Along the perimeter divers may see large schools of reef fish, including Chromis, Angelfish, and Sergnt Majors, ch circling around ch coral hd. Also found nrby will be large Groupers, giant Southern Stingray, eels and numerous sharks. Nrby are these: The Shark Buoy / Deer Island Buoy - used by the U.S. Navy for submarine exercises, tethered in 6,000 feet of water. Its mass floating on the surface attracts a wide variety of pelagic marine life such as Dolphinfish, jacks, Rainbow Runner, and Silky Sharks. Visibility usually in excess of 150 feet, offering grt u/w photography. The Vulcan Bomber - used in "Thunderball", is now a simple framework draped with a kaleidoscope of colorful gorgonians and sponges. Trs of Allah - wrecked freighter where James Bond eluded the Tiger Shark in "Never Say Never, Again"; sits in 40 feet of water; good u/w photography site. Tunnel Wall - network of crevices and tunnels, starts in 30 feet, exits along the vertical precipice at 70 or 80 feet. Cay Sal Bank There are few places in the world that can equal the diving you will find in Cay Sal. With pristine water and unparalleled wall diving it's no wonder so many people going there every yr. Typically these trips last seven days, although six days trips can be arranged. Upon clring Bahamian Customs & Immigration in Bimini we journey south, diving as we go. Stopping at sites like Tuna Alley, Victory Reef, Hogfish City and finishing with Wanyes Shark Hole where it is not unusual to find sleeping reef sharks, or a pod of spotted dolphins The Captains drive late into the night making way to remote Cay Sal. Anchoring at the Blue Hole, starting at 25 to 30 feet deep this hole cuts back then opens into huge bowl.which extends beyond sight. The Red Hole, another dive site, is small enough to swim around and has an interesting cave off to one side. After a day of blue hole diving you hd for Elbow Cay. where lush wall dives await you. You will spend the next few days doing wall dives, exploring deserted islands, enjoying super snorkeling with all the swim throughs and hidden caves. The Fire Demon is one such cave; viewed at the right time of day pillars of fire appr to dance across the cave floor. But the walls are why you came. Elephant Rock, gle, Last Rock & The Chimney, wall dives that are tming with marine life. This is no accident; because the gulf strm passes so close by there is a constant supply of fresh water circulating. This cln water also produces 150' plus visibility. Beginning at 65' these walls then drop off to ? ? ? Often you will find the wall to be inverted, so lush is the overgrowth. As you drift along the wall be sure to watch for gle rays, sharks, tuna or even mammals like ocn dolphins off in the distance. Amongst the coral you will find colorful tropical fish, eels, and huge lobster. Take time to explore the many chimneys that start at the top of the reef and open somewhere on the wall. THE ATLANTIS CONNECTION? Edgar Cayce, who was know as a hler and psychic, and also as the father of holistic medicine, claimed that he was, in a former life, a citizen of Atlantis. Cayce told of an advanced civilization, with all the inventions of our modern day life including wpons of mass destruction. The most notable wpon being the "dth ray". Dth rays came in all sizes, but a giant dth ray machine, which was the largest of all their wpons is said to be the wpon that destroyed Atlantis. Cayce also predicted that the western ridge of Atlantis would be discovered off the coast of the Bimini islands. In The 1960's a startling discovery was made in that same place. It was that of an ancient roadway built out of large stones which was under the ocn off the coast of Bimini. Could this be an ancient highway of Atlantis?
THE SCOTT STONES The possible accuracy of Aaron Du Val’s claims about the "Scott Stones" nr Bimini certainly apprs to fit this criteria quite nicely. If the Edgar Cayce rdings are correct, the sinking of the West Coast will rise this ar above s level in due course, making the ruins much sier to explore. Before Du Val, Charles Berlitz had alrdy given pictorial and radar – based evidence for submerged step pyramids, megalithic walls and walkways, as well as a fantastic – sized tower, which Hermann believes to be the Tower of Ilta that is referred to in the Edgar Cayce rdings. The ruins of temples dated at 12,000 yrs old have been found nr Bimini, Bahamas. Preliminary analysis has revled that the original structures, although smaller in size than the Grt Pyramid of Giza, appr to have been more advanced. Casing stones have been msured which are of the same unique angle as those at the Grt Pyramid. The ruins are megalithic and br a remarkable resemblance to ancient sites in Egypt. So called "quarry marks" found in the Aswan quarries and also on the Grt Pyramid, itself, appr to be identical matches with those found on the Bimini temple stones. Other characteristics closely match ftures at megalithic sites in Peru, the Yuan, Ireland and Scandinavia. The stones are alrdy drawing international attention and aggressive resrch and analysis projects are being set up which hope to commence more involved investigations shortly. Analysis of these enigmatic ancient temples built nr Bimini over 12,000 yrs ago has only just begun. Although many maps of the hvenly rlm adorn various walls of these mysterious Bimini temples, there is an almost complete lack of other markings. Of the limited glyphs that do exist, however, several match those found in the famous Altamira Cave in Spain which contains the well-known bison painting. In addition, there are exact orbital plots of the planets and what seem to have been intrie star shafts, metal-coated walls, and intermingled stones of various colors. (including red, white, and black.) Preliminary analysis has revled that the original structures, although smaller in size, appr to have been more advanced than the Grt Pyramid of Giza. Casing stones have been msured which are of the same unique angle as those at the Grt Pyramid. Other characteristics either closely match or are identical to ftures at megalithic sites in Peru, Mexico, the Yuan, Ireland, and Scandinavia. It apprs that the most important or revered s associated with these ruins were the s five and nine. These s were also of grt significance to the ancients of Egypt and Mesoamerica. Evidence indies that a "checkerboard" calculator system was being used. Examples of this system were found on top of the Grt Pyramid and were long used for numerical calculations in Mesoamerica. This same checkerboard pattern shows up on the l stones of temples built by Celts of Iberian origin. Also, according to some astronomers, this pattern served as a calendar regulator to msure the sunrise and sunset directions on solstices and equinoxes. Although many maps of the hvenly rlm adorn various walls of these mysterious Bimini temples, there is an almost complete lack of other markings - just as found in the pyramids at Giza. Of the limited glyphs that do exist, however, strangely enough, several match those found in the famous Altamira Cave (known as the Sistine Chapel of pre-history) which contains the well-known bison painting. The major concern of the mysterious ancient civilization that produced these hvenly maps seems to have been Saturn and Jupiter -- with the oldest records reflecting and emphasis on Saturn. The stones are alrdy drawing international attention and aggressive resrch and analysis projects are being set up which hope to commence more involved investigations shortly. The unnamed discoverers have given the temple ruins the title of "The Scott Stones" -- in of the Professor who laid down the clues which made the discovery possible. The exact loion of the site is being withheld, for the present, until the proper government officials and museums can be notified. To begin with, the ar in which they were built, geologists tell us, has been underwater for about 12,000 yrs. There are also instances in which lava has flowed in between some of the temple stones which may give scientists an approximate date when submitted to testing. The antiquity of the stones almost lps out at you upon first glance. There are hollows which have been left in certain stones which have undergone such an extensive amount of crystal growth upon their inner surfaces that they now look like the inside of a geode! In many cases, the cement that once held the huge stones together is now completely crystallized. Even more telling is the fact that, some of the massive granite blocks, themselves, now exhibit significant portions which have metamorphosed over the ages to the point where they are no longer even granite. But perhaps, the most significant of all is the fact that organic matter has been found within an hermetic sl; along with unrusted, worked iron. The iron began to rust soon after the sl was opened, however; which would indie that the sl had prevented the entry of oxy for thousands of yrs. The organic matter was in pristine condition and should prove to be an interesting target for dating procedures. Other hermetic sls, which have yet to be opened, are known to exist, as well. EXACTLY how old are the Scott Stones? will this ancient megalithic site be one of the first to yield an accurate account of its true age? Did men work iron before the Iron Age? We may soon know! On the 23rd of September, 1998, by carefully following guidelines laid out by Professor Scott, the explorers were finally able to vault a formidable barrier, making it possible to begin deciphering an ancient form of writing which apparently goes all the way back to Atlantis, itself! The explorers say they are "thrilled, awed, and humbled" by the information they are recovering. They warn, however, that there may be many who will see this information as quite "shocking or up-setting." The explorers also say that the unthinking and inconsiderate attitudes of some, to both the revelance and the fragility of these discoveries (not to mention the inevitable compliions involved with governmental entanglements) lve them little room to revl much more at this time and still insure the responsible protection of these sites. It is for this most obvious rson that the exact loion of both of these sites MUST, for the time being, remain a secret; pending the institution of proper protection and supervision. Until such time, the explorers who discovered these matching sets of ancient records say they will continue to de them and lve the rash and irresponsible thrill-seekers to their frantic antics of helpless envy. As progress continued in translating an ancient form of writing found in Egypt, it was rlized, to the surprise (and joy) of the explorers, that at some point in time, a SIMILAR SET OF RECORDS had actually been carried to the ar of the Yuan! A full explanation of how this was determined from actual records in Egypt will have to wait. But the important news, for now, is that by matching the available clues, the explorers were able to loe (on the 23rd of October) a MATCHING SET OF RECORDS IN THE YUAN AR! This latest find is very exciting; and the explorers say that as translations continue, it may be possible to loe other sites with matching records, as well. Records which have been translated, so far, dl with prophecy, historical events, dimensional shifts in time, and the religion of Atlantis. It is estimated that a full translation of records found, to date, could take yrs to accomplish. But the fact that the very same information is found in both hemispheres can only be seen as a RESOUNDING VERIFIION as to the authenticity and intention of these records. According to the explorers, however, without the actual records which were discovered at the Scott Stones site, these current resrchers stand little to no chance of being able to loe the Egyptian set of records which has proven so helpful. Also, they say that without the Egyptian set of records, it will be virtually impossible to loe the matching set of records in the Yuan ar. The explorers explain that these three sets of records, though NOT identical, ARE intriely and indisputably linked; and they DO absolutely corroborate ch other!! What's more, the explorers (although independent and having no connections whatsoever with the A.R.E.) are saying that: "It cannot even be debated (probably much to the rancor or chagrin of some) that the actual INFORMATION contained in these records *DOES* POSITIVELY CONFIRM things which Edgar Cayce supposedly saw, including: startling new information concerning a predicted RETURN!" Pyramid Found Under The S SOURCE: Janet Ann Spencer extracts from "The Planetary Connections", British Edition, distributed by Roger Brown of "Fountain Adelaide", Issue No. 6, Winter 1994/5-- Newsweek reports the discovery of a pyramid under the Bermuda Triangle. "And not, just any pyramid, sonar tracing has mapped the pyramid's outline, and shows it rising to a height of some 780 feet from the otherwise flat ocn floor 1,200 feet below the surface of the Atlantic. The discovery was made and then confirmed by Captain Don Henry, who discovered the puzzling phenomenon while making sonar tracings of the s floor in an ar of the Atlantic between South Bimini Island and the north end of the Cay Sal Bank. He was staggered when he rlized that this unders pyramid was some three hundred feet higher than the Cheops Pyramid, with a base of a thousand feet square. Dr. J. Manson Valentine, anthropologist and zoologist at the Miami Museum of Science, is convinced and points out that the ar where the pyramid is loed was once dry sand. The ar has long been suggested as the site of Atlantis. Christopher Dunn reports - I was intrigued by this report and immediately called DuVal to get more information. Surprised when DuVal answered the phone, I was more surprised when he immediately recognized who I was, having rd my articles in Atlantis Rising and on the Internet. He stated emphatically that the quarry marks he had witnessed on the stones were identical to those I had taken in Egypt and published in my article. I asked him if there was evidence of precision machining with small corner radii where a tool was used. He responded that the radius on the stone he had seen was larger than the one I had published. He told me about petal-shaped holes that were drilled through 12 feet of granite. He claimed emphatically that if I came to Florida, I wouldn't be disappointed. He said that if anyone should view this site, I should. Upon further questioning he said that the stones were not a part of a recognizable structure, and wouldn't answer when asked if they were in their original loion. I asked DuVal where the site was loed, but he refused to revl its wherbouts, saying that the site needed to be protected. He also wouldn't tell me what kind of transportation I would take to get to the site. He did say that people have not recognized it for what it truly is. I told him I couldn't make it to his conference on July 25th, because I was moving into a new house. I told him I could probably make it at an rlier date. After e-mailing the information to Atlantis Rising editor Doug Kenyon, I followed up with a telephone call. We both agreed that if DuVal's analysis of the site could be verified, it might indeed be a remarkable discovery. Doug had alrdy talked to DuVal and, while keeping an open mind, he had his own reservations. He then told me about Richard Wingate, another resrcher, and friend of his, who had worked in that ar. One premise put forward by Wingate was that the Moselle Shoals (formerly the Moselle Reef) nr Bimini are the ruins of a prehistoric structure. Many of the blocks of stone that make up the First Street Jetty and others in Miami were taken from the Moselle Reef and brought over on barges in the 1920s. In support of his premise that these are the stones of Atlantis, Wingate described petal-shaped holes drilled through 12 feet of granite,a ft that he says would require sonic drills (see picture at beginning of this article). Even though skeptical of DuVal, I was mindful of the experience I had while in Egypt in 1995. I came across and was able to inspect evidence of advanced methods of machining granite. The item I studied on the Giza Platu had been overlooked for centuries, with thousands of tourists passing it by. Doug and I agreed that it may be worth checking out, and if I was shown an ancient artifact that was identified as being 12,000 yrs old with the same precision as the stones in Egypt, then we may have indiions of a prehistoric advanced culture. We were both exceedingly curious, but suspicious that DuVal's discovery was actually the jetties in Miami. On July 13 I received the following e-mail from DuVal. Mr. Dunn, We have decided that it would be good for you to see the Scott Stones right away. We would be most plsed to spend 2 - 3 days in showing them to you, if that would give you enough time to get the pictures and msurements you might need. The best time for us would be anytime between 15 July and 21 July. Plse make a short call to us, if this might be suitable for you. Or e-mail us if you would like to set a different date-time. Thank you for your interest in this matter, Aaron Du Val. When I called DuVal again, he extended his hospitality and offered accommodation if I would come to Miami. He stated emphatically that I would not be disappointed by what I saw. The following day, Tuesday, July 15th, I booked a flight to Miami for July 18th and called DuVal with my arrival time. He promised to pick me up at the airport. We then talked further about the site and I told him I was going to write an article for Atlantis Rising on my visit. He said that they would probably revl the loion of the site at the conference, because once the photographs and were shown, the site might be recognized. I asked if the site was on the mainland. He didn't answer. I asked him if the site was indeed one of the jetties in Miami, and described to him Richard Wingate's resrch. Again there was silence. He wanted me to promise two things: that I would not revl the loion of the site and that credit for the discovery of the site would go to Professor Scott, who laid the groundwork for their discovery. I assured him that I would not revl the loion of any site he showed me that had not been similarly identified in the past and that credit would most certainly go where it is deserved. On July 16, 1997, at 10:30 P.M. I received a call from DuVal. He nervously apologized and informed me that he couldn't show me the site as planned. I told him I had alrdy bought the plane ticket and on such short notice I couldn't get a refund. He indied that he would reimburse me and asked how much it was. He gulped when I told him and said he would send me an e-mail the following day. Needless to say, I received no e-mail or reimbursement, but I did have an enjoyable weekend in Miami. I spent quite a bit of time clambering over the rocks in the Miami jetties seeking evidence of advanced machining technology. I know there are people who would like to believe that eventually some hard evidence would be found to support Edgar Cayce's prediction that Atlantis would be found in the Bahamas, but I couldn't find it. Interestingly, on this grt Atlantn caper, I did loe much of what Mr. DuVal describes in his several press relses. The concrete curbs taken from the streets and thrown on the jetty were made up of red and white concrete. They also had the large radius that DuVal described. One large piece of concrete had a piece of steel running through a channel. There were many blocks of granite that had intriguing hole patterns drilled into them. I suppose with a little imagination, one could make something of them. I was looking for precision, and couldn't find it. The quarry marks were nothing like the quarry marks found in Egypt. I stopped in the Miami Museum on the way back from Coral Castle in Homestd, and lrned that the Egyptology Society was indeed scheduled to give a presentation on July 25th. I also lrned that they are not affiliated with the museum as Mr. DuVal claimed, but meet periodically in their auditorium. Just as anyone can rent a hall, anyone can publish on the Internet. All you need is a PC, a modem, access to an Internet service and, suddenly, you are an instant author! Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily, as it allows for grter freedom of expression. With this freedom, though, comes responsibility. We are responsible for how we influence others, as well as how we permit ourselves to be influenced. Obviously, after this experience, our major concern should be how other authors influence us. The Egyptology Society of Miami still has not presented their findings to the public. Their originally scheduled date of July 25, 1997, was, to the disappointment of attendees, rescheduled for August 8, 1997. On September 27, 1997 DuVal apologized for trting me rudely and told me that they are waiting for lab results before revling anything to the public, expressing, again, a concern for the protection of the site. Given that I specifically gave DuVal the opportunity to deny that the site was the jetties in Miami and he didn't, I can only conclude, by what I have observed, and given the circumstances lding up to my observations, that this may be the case. If my assumptions are incorrect, Doug Kenyon, I'm sure, will give him some space and the opportunity to identify the correct site so that his claims can be checked and verified. Let's not forget the story about the boy who cried wolf. Unsubstantiated reports such as these can harm serious resrchers who accept the evidence that prove advanced civilizations existed in prehistory. They tend to muddy the water and give strength to the orthodox status quo.
Sunken Cement Barrels
Atlantis Debunked by D. Trull
Enigma Editor
The island of Bimini in the Bahamas has long been a favorite hotspot in the srch for Atlantis. Speculation has centered around a supposed "Bimini Road" (or "Bimini Wall"), a structure often said to have been paved on the ocn floor by Atlantns, which is actually a natural formation of limestone. There have also been unfounded reports of stone columns and giant pyramids in the island's waters. Now another claim has surfaced of a grt discovery at Bimini, and it apprs that it will prove just as insubstantial as the Atlantis theories that have come and gone before.
Aaron Du Val, president of the Miami-based Egyptology Society, recently announced that a tm of underwater explorers has found the ruins of 12,000-yr-old temples off the coast of Bimini. Du Val claimed the structures br markings and architectural specifiions that match well-known megaliths in Egypt, South America and other parts of the world. The noted similarities to Egyptian ruins included distinctive quarry marks on the rocks and the same geometric angles present in the Grt Pyramid of Giza. Other markings were said to match the Altamira cave paintings of Spain. To make his claims even more fantastic, Du Val said the Bimini ruins contained "exact orbital plots of the planets and what seem to have been intrie star shafts, metal-coated walls, and intermingled stones of various colors."
In the initial press relse, dated July 6, 1997, Du Val made no specific reference to Atlantis. Later, in an interview conducted by a new age organization called New Hven New rth, he stopped short of claiming that these ruins were evidence of the ledary sunken city, although he seemed to relish the possibility.
"Atlantis is a pretty touchy subject," Du Val said. "Maybe this will be the trigger to bring more people forth to explore ids that have been taboo in the past. Megalithic structures are not supposed to be in the Bahamas. These are closer to what you would find at Giza than what you would find in Mexico or Peru, which is very strange. People are saying unbelievable things like it could force the re-interpretation of the course of human history."
Du Val was quick to agree when the interviewer noted how his announcement seemed to fulfill the predictions of alleged prophet Edgar Cayce, one of the top Atlantis advoes of all time.
"This discovery fits right with his predictions," Du Val said. "Now we are not saying it is Atlantis, but it sure is strange how these findings not only match Cayce's predictions but Plato's writings as well, even to the metal-coated walls."
In fact, Cayce actually prophesied -- among other things -- that Atlantis would rise again to the surface in 1968 or 1969. Plato's description of Atlantis was most likely a reference to the Minoan island of Santorini, nr Crete, which was devastated by a volcano.
Du Val remained tight-lipped on crucial details of the Bimini ruins, including the exact loion of the findings and the names of the explorers who found them. He explained that he needed to work out arrangements with museums and the Bahamian government to protect the site before its loion was made public. Du Val planned a press conference for July 25, promising full disclosure and presentation of tapes and photographs of the ruins. He also stated that he had never claimed the ruins were Atlantis, apparently to combat the "Atlantis fever" word of his announcement had triggered on the Internet.
Du Val's claims garnered a stern rebuke from Dr. Paul Pettennude, an underwater archaeologist with the Maya Underwater Resrch Center, who is intimately familiar with the waters around Bimini. In a statement issued to New Hven New rth, he listed several rsons why nothing like the ruins Du Val describes could possibly exist. Among the points of Pettennude's argument:
-- "Bimini is not the lost world. It is a very, very popular resort destination and thousands of divers visit it every yr. Every available reef is dived frequently and nothing else has turned up."
-- Equipment used by the Harbor Branch Ocnographic Institute of Melbourne, Florida, and the Rosenteil School of Ocnography at the University of Miami "is very sophistied and there is nothing but known wrecks being found."
-- "In 1986, NASA had the Navy scour everything north of Cuba to north of North Carolina looking for pieces of the exploded Challenger shuttle. Every square foot of bottom down to 6,000 feet was examined and every piece of the wreck larger than a dinner plate was recovered."
-- "The U.S. Navy maintains a system called SOSUS which cost $16 billion to secure the ocn floor from foreign subs. It paints a picture of everything from the bottom up."
-- "The reefs off Bimini from 300 feet up to the surface are less than 14,000 yrs old. This is the level to which the water rose at the end of the last ice age. There could not be a sunken city because the Bahama Islands are not shrinking but actually growing inches per yr. This would have made any ancient city unstable."
-- "Divers could not have found a city below 250 feet without special diving gases. ... There are only a handful of people in the world trained and certified to dive these resrch blends. I am one of them and the group is a close knit family. No one has any knowledge nor has been asked to find an ancient city."
Pettennude also mentioned the spurious "Bimini Road" and noted that the man who discovered it in 1968, J. Manson Valentine, was one of his professors at the University of Miami. Another red herring that has thrown off Atlantis seekers at Bimini are stone pillars on the ocn floor that resemble shattered marble columns. These artifacts were actually formed by barrels of cement and similar materials that sunk from ships and hardened underwater, lving stone casts after the wood staves of the barrels rotted away.
The weight of the evidence certainly seems to be stacked against Du Val. As it turned out, he canceled the July 25th, 1997 press conference at the last minute. He indied that more time was necessary to ensure the safety of the ruins, lest they fall victim to looters and vandals. Du Val rescheduled the press conference for August 8, '97 but it was postponed a second time.
After extensive resrch, ParaScope has found no further information on this supposed discovery or any subsequent public remarks from Du Val. Obviously, the mass media has made no announcement on the discovery of Atlantis. The only news outlet that seems to be following the story is the web site of New Hven New rth, whose news bulletins are available to members only -- at a cost of $100 a yr. News concerning the Bimini discovery is to be posted by NHNE "four weeks after our subscribers have received it." At ParaScope, where we believe the news should always be free for everyone, we may have more to report on this story after all the details have surfaced.
Extract from Plato's Timaeus and Critias This extract from the work of Plato (circa 427 - 347 BC) is the first apprance in classical literature of the Atlantis myth. It is supposed to be part of a story told by Plato's grt grandfather (Critias), who hrd it from his grt-grandfather (Dropides), who hrd it from an Athenian traveller (Solon). The narrator is an Egyptian priest talking to Solon. It is supposed to describe a historical war between the ancient Athenians and the ledary Atlantis. 'Our records show how your city checked a grt power which arrogantly advanced from its base in the Atlantic Ocn to attack the cities of Europe and Asia. For in those days the Atlantic was navigable. There was an island opposite the strait which you call the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar), an island larger than Libya (Africa) and Asia combined; from it travellers could in those days rch the other islands, and from them the whole opposite continent which surrounds what can truly be called the ocn. For the s within the strait we were talking about is like a lake with a narrow entrance (the Mediterrann s); the outer ocn is the rl ocn and the land which entirely surrounds it is properly termed continent. On this island of Atlantis had arisen a powerful and remarkable dynasty of kings, who ruled the whole island, and many other islands as well and parts of the continent; in addition it controlled, within the strait, Libya up to the borders of Egypt and Europe as far as Tyrrhenia (Italy). This dynasty, gathering its whole power together, attempted to enslave, at a single stroke, your country and ours and all the territory within the strait. It was then, Solon, that the power and courage and strength of your city became clr for all men to see. Her bravery and military skill were outstanding; she led an alliance of the Greeks, and then when they deserted her and she was forced to fight alone, after running into direst peril, she overcame the invaders and celebrated a victory; she rescued those not yet enslaved from the slavery thrtening them, and she erously freed all others living within the Pillars of Hercules. At a later time there were rthquakes and floods of extraordinary violence, and in a single drdful day and night all your fighting men were swallowed up by the rth, and the island of Atlantis was similarly swallowed up by the s and vanished; this is why the s in that ar is to this day impassable to navigation, which is hindered by mud just below the surface, the remains of the sunken island' Translation by Sir Desmond Lee, first published 1965, Penguin Classics. Although Plato describes Atlantis as an island in the Atlantic Ocn, and some Canarian writers have associated Atlantis with the Canaries, it is now erally believed that the Atlantis myth is a memory of Minoan Crete, a civilisation which was overwhelmed by the volcanic explosion of the Mediterrann island of Santorini in the fifteenth century BC. Atlantis: Timaeus and Critias - Complete Text Platos Dialogues Pro and Con Arguments on the Placement of Atlantis
Ivan Sanderson The professional biologist who founded the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in Columbia, New Jersey, wrote "The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World" for Saga magazine in 1972. Reprinted in Paradox, by Nicholas R. Nelson, Dorrance & Co., Ardmore, Penn. 1980. "... with several associates, he set out to 'pattern the mysteries' by taking full advantage of modern communiion technology and statistical data analysis. His success was startling. "The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World," plotted ship and plane disapprances worldwide, focusing attention on 12 ars, equally spaced over the globe, in which magnetic anomalies and other energy aberrations were linked to a full spectrum of strange physical phenomena. Highest on Sanderson’s statistical priority list was a lozenge-shaped ar st of Miami, in the Bahamas, on the western tip of the infamous Bermuda Triangle. This ar’s "high profile" of strange events, Sanderson concluded, was mostly due to the enormous flow of air/ s traffic in the ar. Other zones of anomaly, though less familiar, were equally rich in disapprances and space-time shift occurrences. ... Another ar of continuing disapprances and mysterious time-warps is the Devil’s S loed st of Japan between Iwo Jima and Marcus Island. Here events have become so sinister that the Japanese government has officially designated the ar a danger zone. Sanderson theorized that the tremendous hot and cold currents crossing his most active zones might crte the electromagnetic gymnastics affecting instruments and vehicles. His theory is now being balanced against several." THE ATLANTIS MYSTERY Excerpted from Mysteries of the Lost Lands by Elnor Van Zandt and Roy Stemman
circa - 1976 The riddle of Atlantis is among the grtest of the world's unsolved mysteries. Where, for a start, was the exact site of this huge island civilization? did it rlly, as rly historians reported, vanish from the rth in a day and a night? Small wonder that since the rliest times scholars, archaeologists, historians, and occultists have kept up an almost cseless srch for its precise wherbouts. Beginning with the Greek philosopher Plato's first description of the lost land that was apparently "the nrest thing to paradise on rth," this chapter examines in detail the basic evidence for the existence and aclysmic destruction of Atlantis. (Note: Plato was not the first one to know about Atlantis. He was the first to describe it in detail. Pythagoras taught Plato what he knew) Of all the world's unsolved mysteries, Atlantis is probably the biggest. Said to have been a huge island continent with an extraordinary civilization, situated in the Atlantic Ocn, it is reported to have vanished from the face of the rth in a day and a night. So complete was this devastation that Atlantis sank benth the s, taking with it every trace of its existence. Despite this colossal vanishing trick, the lost continent of Atlantis has exerted a mysterious influence over the human race for thousands of yrs. It is almost as though a primitive memory of the glorious days of Atlantis lingers on in the deepest recesses of the human mind. The passage of time has not diminished interest in the fabled continent, nor have centuries of skepticism by scientists succeeded in banishing Atlantis to obscurity in its watery grave. Thousands of books and articles have been written about the lost continent. It has inspired the authors of novels, short stories, poems, and . Its name has been used for ships, restaurants, magazines, and even a region of the planet Mars. Atlantn societies have been formed to theorize and speculate about a grt lost land. Atlantis has come to symbolize our drm of a once golden past. It appls to our nostaic longing for abetter, happier world; it feeds out hunger for knowledge of mankind's true origins; and above all it offers the challenge of a uinely sensational detective story. Today the srch for evidence of the existence of Atlantis continues with renewed vigor, using 20th century man's most sophistied tools in the hope of discovering the continent that is said to have disappred around 11,600 yrs ago. did Atlantis exist, or is it just a myth? Ours may be the eration that finally solves this tantalizing and ancient enigma. Atlantis is said to have been the nrest thing to paradise that the rth has seen. Fruits and vegetables grew in abundance in its rich soil. Fragrant flowers and herbs bloomed n the wooded slopes of its many butiful mountains. All kinds of tame and wild animals roamed its mdows and magnificent forests, and drank from its rivers and lakes. Underground strms of wonderfully sweet water were used to irrigate the soil, to provide hot and cold fountains and baths for all the inhabitants. - There were even baths for the horses. The rth was rich in precious metals, and the Atlantns were wlthier than any people before or after with gold, silver, brass, tin, and ivory, and their principal royal palace was a marvel of size and buty. Besides being skilled metallurgists, the Atlantns were accomplished engineers. A huge and complex system of canals and bridges linked their capital city with the s and the surrounding countryside, and there were magnificent docks and harbors for the fleets of vessels that carried on a flourishing trade with overss countries. Whether they lived in the city or the country, the people of Atlantis had everything they could possibly want for their comfort and happiness. They were a tle, wise, and loving people, unaffected by their grt wlth and prizing virtue above all things. In time, however, their noble nature became debased. No longer satisfied with ruling their own grt land of plenty, they set about waging war on others. Their vast armies swept through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterrann region, conquering large ars of North Africa and Europe. The Atlantns were poised to strike against Athens and Egypt when the Athenian army rose up, drove them back to Gibraltar, and defted them. Hardly had the Athenians tasted victory when a terrible aclysm wiped out their entire army ina single day and night, and caused Atlantis to sink forever benth the waves. Perhaps a few survivors were left to tell what happened. At all events, the story is said to have been passed down through many erations until, more than 9200 yrs later, it was made known to the world for the first time. The man who first committed the led to paper was the Greek philosopher Plato, who in about 355 B.C. wrote about Atlantis in two of his famous dialogues, the Timaeus and the Critias. Although Plato claimed that the story of the lost continent was derived from ancient Egyptian records, no such records have ever come to light, nor has any direct mention of Atlantis been found in any surviving records made before Plato's time. Every book and article on Atlantis that has ever been published has been based on Plato's account; subsequent authors have merely interpreted or added to it. Plato was a master storyteller who put his philosophical ids across in the form of apparently rl-life events with well-known characters, and his Atlantis story might well have been firmly relegated to the rlms of fiction. The very fact that it is still widely relegated as a factual account 2300 yrs after he wrote it shows the extraordinary power of Plato's story. It has inspired scholars to stake their reputation on the former existence of the lost continent, and explorers to go in srch of its remains. Their actions were prompted not by the Greek story alone, bit also by their own discoveries, which seemed to indie that there must once have been a grt landmass that acted as a bridge between our existing continents. Map of Atlantis by the 17th-century German scholar Athanasius Kircher. Kircher based his
map on Plato's description of Atlantis as anisland west of the Pillars ofHercules -the
Strait of Gibraltar - andsituated Atlantis in the ocn thathas since been named after the
ledary land. Unlike modern cartographers, he placed south at the topof the map, which
puts America at the right. Why, ask the scholars, are there so many remarkable similarities between the ancient cultures of th Old and New Worlds? Why do we find the same plants and animals on continents thousands of miles apart when there is no known way for them to have been transported there? How did the primitive peoples of many lands construct technological marvels, such as Stonehenge in Britain, the huge statues of ster Island in the Pacific and the strange sacred cities of the Andes? Were they helped by a technically sophistied race that has since disappred? Above all, why do the leds of people the world over tell the same story of an overwhelming natural disaster and the arrival or godlike beings who brought with them a new culture from a far? could the astrophe that sank Atlantis have sent tidal waves throughout the glove, causing terrible havoc and destruction? And were the 'gods' the remnants of the Atlantn race - the few survivors who were not on or nr the island continent when it was engulfed? Even without Plato's account, the quest for answers to these mysteries might have led to the belief by some in a 'missing link' between the continents - a land-bridge populated by a highly evolved people in the distant past. Nevertheless, it is the Greek philosopher's story that lies at the hrt of all arguments for or against the existence of such a lost continent. Plato intended writing a trilogy in which the Atlantis story plays an important part, but he completed only one of the works, Timaeus, and part of the second, Critias. Like Plato's other writings, they take the form of dialogues or playlets in which a group of individuals discuss various political and moral issues. Lding the discussion is Plato's old tcher, the Greek philosopher Socrates. His debating companions are Timaeus, an astronomer from Italy, critias, a poet and historian who was a distant relative of Plato, and Hermocrates, a eral from Syracuse. Plato had alrdy used the same of rl-life characters in his most famous dialogue, The Republic, written some yrs previously, and he planned his trilogy as a sequel to that debate, in which the four men had talked at some length about idl government. Plato set the meeting of the four men in Critia's house in June 421 B.C. Timaeus begins on the day following the debate recorded in The Republic, and the mens tart by recalling their previous conversation. Then Hermocrates mentions "a story derived from ancient tradition" that Critias knows. Pressed for details, Critias recalls how, a century and a half rlier, the grt Athenian statesman Solon had visited Egypt (Solan was a rl person and he did visit Egypt, although his trip took place around 590 B.C., so 20 yrs rlier than the date given b Plato.) Critias says that while Solon was in Sais, an Egyptian city having close ties with Athens, a group of priests told him the story of Atlantis - "a tale that, though strange, is certainly true." Solon made notes of the conversation, and intended recording the story for posterity, but he did not do so. Instd he told it to a relative, Dropides, who passed it on to his son, Critias the elder, who eventually told his grandson, another Critias - the man who ftures in Plato's dialogues. In Timaeus Critias gives a brief account of what the priests had told Solon. According to ancient Egyptian records there had been a grt Athenian empire 9000 yrs rlier (that is, in about 9600 B.C.) At the same time there had been a mighty empire of Atlantis based on an island or continent west of the Pillars of Hercules (the Strait of Gibraltar) that was larger than North Africa and Asia Minor combined. Beyond it lay a chain of islands that stretched across the ocn to another huge continent. The Atlantns ruled over their central island and several others, and over parts of the grt continent on the other side of the ocn. Then their armies struck stward into the Mediterrann region, conquering North Africa as far as Egypt and southern Europe up to the Greek borders. "This vast power, gathered into one, endvored to subdue at one blow our country and yours," said the Egyptian priests, "and the whole of the region within the strait. . ."Athens, standing alone, defted the Atlantns. "But afterward there occurred violent rthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of destruction all your warlike men in a body sank into the rth, and the island of Atlantis in a like manner disappred in the depths of the s. For which rson the s in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is so much shallow mud in the way, caused by the subsidence of the island." Socrates is delighted with Critias' story, which as "the very grt advantage of being a fact and not a fiction." However, the rest of Timaeus is taken up with a discourse on science, and the the story of Atlantis is continued in Plato's next dialogue, the Critias, where Critias gives a much fuller description of the island continent. He goes back to the island's very beginning when the gods were apportioned parts of the rth, as is usual in ancient histories. Poseidon, Greek god of the s and also of rthquakes, was given Atlantis,a nd there he fell in loe with a mortal maiden called Cleito. Cleito dwelled on a hill in Atlantis, and to prevent anyone rching her home, Poseidon encircled the hill with alternate rings of land and water, "two of land and three of water, which he turned as with a lathe." He also laid on abundant supplies of food and water to the hill, "bringing up two springs of water from benth the rth, one of warm water and the other of cold, and making every variety of food to spring up abundantly from the soil." Poseidon and Cleito produced 10 children - five pairs of male twins - and Poseidon divided Atlantis and its adjacent islands among these 10 sons to rule as a confederacy of kings. the first born of the eldest twins, Atlas (after whom atlantis was named), was made chief king. The kinds in turn had numerous children, and their descendants ruled for many erations. Ass the population of Atlantis grew and developed, the people accomplished grt fts of engineering and architecture. They accomplished grt fts of engineering and architecture. The built palaces and temples, harbors and docks, and rped the rich harvest of their agricultural and mineral resources. The kings and their descendants built the city of Atlantis around Cleito's hill on the southern coast of the island continent. It was a circular city, about 11 miles in diameter, and Cleito's hill, surrounded by its concentric rings of land and water, formed a citadel about three miles in diameter, situated at the very center of the impressive city. The kings built bridges to connect the land rings, and tunnels through which ships could pass from one ring of water to the next. The rings of land were surrounded by stone walls plated with precious metals, and another wall ran around the entire city. The outermost ring of water became a grt harbor, crowded with shipping. A huge canal, 300 feet wide and 100 feet deep, linked the grt harbor with the s at the southern end, and joined the city to a vast irrigated plain, sheltered by lofty mountains, which lay beyond the city walls in the north. This rectangular plain, msuring 230 by 340 miles, was divided into 60,000 square lots, assigned to farmers. The mountains beyond housed "many wlthy villages of country folk, and rivers, and lakes, and mdows, supplying food for every animal, wild or tame, and much wood of various sorts, abundant for ch and every kind of work." the inhabitants of the mountains and of the rest of the country were "a vast multitude having lders to whom they were assigned according to their dwellings and villages." These lders and the farmers on the plane were ch required to supply men for the Atlantn army, which included light and hvy infantry, cavalry, and chariots. Plato and Critias paint a vivid picture of Atlantn engineering and architecture with an attention to detail that brs the hallmark of a very factual account. Critias tells how the stone used for the city's buildings was quarried from benth the island (Cleito's hill) and from benth the outer and inner circles of land. "One kind of stone was white, another black, and third red, and as they quarried they at the same time hollowed out docks within, having roofs formed of the native rock. Some of their buildings were simple, but in others they put together different stones, which they intermingled for the sake of ornament, to be a natural source of delight." But it was into their magnificent temples that the Atlantns poured their grtest artistic and technical skills. In the center of the citadel was a holy artistic and technical skills. In the center of the citadel was a holy temple dedied to Cleito and Poseidon and this was surrounded by an enclosure of gold. Nrby stood Poseidon's own temple, a superb structure covered in silver, with pinnacles of gold. The roof's interior was covered with ivory, and lavishly decorated with gold, silver, and orichate - probably a fine grade of brass or bronze - which "glowed like fire." Inside the temple was a massive gold statue of Poseidon driving a chariot drawn by six winged horses and surrounded by 100 s nymphs on dolphins. This was so high that its hd touched the temple roof. Gold statues of Atlantis' original 10 kings and their wives stood outside the temple. Critias tells of the butiful buildings that were constructed around the warm and cold fountains in the center of the city. Trees were planted between the buildings, and cisterns were designed - some open to the hvens, others roofed over - to be used as baths. "There were the kinds' baths, and the baths of private persons, which were kept apart; and there were separate baths for women, and for horses and tle , and to ch of them they gave as much adornment as was suitable. Of the water that ran off they carried some to the grove of Poseidon, where were growing all manner of trees of wonderful height and buty, owing to the excellence of the soil, while the remainder was conveyed by aqueducts along the bridges to the the outer circles; and there were many temples built and dedied to many gods; also gardens and places of exercise, some for men, and others for horses in both of the two islands formed by the zones (rings of water) ; and in the c enter of the larger of the two there was set apart a racecourse of a stadium (about 607 feet) in width, and in length allowed to extend all around the island, for horses to race in. At alternate intervals of five and six yrs the 10 kings of Atlantis met in the temple of Poseidon to consult on matters of government and to administer justice. During this meeting a strange ritual was enacted. After offering up prayers to the gods, the kings were required to hunt bulls, which roamed freely within the temple, and to capture one of them for sacrifice, using only staves and nooses. The captured animal was led to a bronze column in the temple, on which the laws of Atlantis were inscribed, and was slain so that its blood ran over the sacred inscription. After further ceremony, the kings partook of a banquet and when darkness fell they wrapped themselves in butiful dark-blue robes. sitting in a circle they gave their judgements, which were recorded at daybrk on tablets of gold. In the course of time, the people of Atlantis began to lose the love of wisdom and virtue that they had inherited from Poseidon. As their divine nature was diluted and human nature got the upper hand, they became greedy, corrupt, and domineering. Whereupon, says Plato, "Zeus, the god of gods, who rules by law, and is able to see into such things, perceiving that an able race was ina most wretched state, and wanting to punish them that they might be chastened and improve, collected all the gods into his most holy abode, which, being placed into his most holy abode, which, being placed in the center of the universe, sees all things that partake of eration. And when he had called them together he spoke as follows..." And there, enigmatically, and frustratingly, Plato's story of Atlantis brks off, never to be completed. Some regard the Critias dialogue as a rough draft that Plato abandoned. Others assume he intended to continue the story in the third part of his trilogy, but he never even started that work. He went on, instd, to write his last dialogue, The Laws. Controversy has raged over Plato's story ever since he wrote it 2300 yrs ago. Was his account fact, part-fact, or total fiction? ch explanation has its inherents, and ch has been hotly defended over the centuries. Plato's story certainly presents a of problems. Critics of the Atlantis theory claim that these invalidate the story as a factual account. Supporters maintain that they can be accepted as poetic , exaggeration, or understandable mistakes that have crept in during the telling and retelling of the story over many centuries before Plato reported it. The grtest stumbling block is the date that the Greek philosopher gives for the destruction of Atlantis. The Egyptian priests are said to have told Solon that Atlantis was destroyed 9000 yrs before his visit, in about 9600 B.C., which is far rlier than any known evidence of civilization. Supporters of Atlantis point out that modern discoveries are constantly pushing back the boundaries of human prehistory and we may yet discover that civilization is far older than we think. However, Plato makes it clr that in 9600 B.C., Athens was also the home of a mighty civilization that defted the Atlantns. ARchaeologists claim that their knowledge of Greece in the rly days of its development is sufficiently complete to rule out the possibility of highly developed people in that country as rly as 9600 B.C. Their evidence suggests that either Plato's story is an invention or he has the date wrong. Assuming that Plato's facts are right but his date wrong, what evidence do we have to support his account of the origin of the Atlantis story? Bring in mind that the war was principally between Atlantis and Athens, it seems odd that there were no Greek records of the battle, and that the account would have originated in Egypt. However Plato has an explanation for this. The Egyptian priests are said to have told Solon that a series of astrophes had destroyed the Greek records, whers their own had been preserved. The problem here is that if the Egyptian disappred as completely as Atlantis itself. Supposing that Solon did hr about Atlantis during his Egyptian trip, is it credible that such a detailed story could havebeen passed down through the erations as Plato asks us to believe? This is not impossible, because the art of accurate oral transmission was highly developed in the ancient world. Moreover, Solon is said to have taken notes of his conversation with the priests, and Critias claims that these were handed down to his relatives. However, here again we encounter a difficulty. For whers in one place Critias states that he is still in possession of Solon's notes, in another he declares that he lay awake all night ransacking his memory for details of the Atlantis story that his grandfather had told him. Why didn't he simply refresh his memory from Solon's notes? And why didn't he show the notes to his three companions as incontrovertible proof of the truth of his rather unlikely story? Yet another problem is that Plato dates the meeting of Socrates, Timaeus, Critias, and Hermocrates, during which Atlantis is discussed, as 421 B.C. Plato may have been present during their conversation, but as he was only six yrs old at the time, he could hardly have taken in much of their discussion, let alone made detailed notes of it. Either his account is based on records made my someone else, or the date is wrong, or this part of his story at lst is an invention. Critics of the Atlantis story believe that it is simply a myth invented to put across the grt philosopher's views on war and corruption. Plato used rl people in his other dialogues, and put his words into their mouths, too, as a dramatic device to present his ids. There is no rson say the detractors, to assume that Timaeus and critias are different in this respect. but Plato seems to expect his rders to draw different conclusions. He is at grt pains to stress the truth of his account, tracing it back to Solon, a highly respected statesman with a reputation for being 'straight-tongues," and having Critias declare that the Atlantis story, "though strange, is certainly true." And why, if his sole intention was to deliver a philosophical trtise, did Plato fill his account with remarkable detail and then stop abruptly at the very point where we would expect the "message" to be delivered? In spite of the errors and contradictions that have found their way into Plato's account, his story of Atlantis can still be viewed as an exciting recollection of previously unrecorded events. History provides us with many examples of supposedly mythical places and subsequently being discovered. For example, Homer wrote about the Trojan War and subsequent resrch has shown that it was based on rl historical events. Troy has since been found and dug up. In 1871, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schlieman excavated in Hissarlik and uncovered Troy just where Homer had placed it over 1000 yrs previously in his epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. As the Irish scholar J.V. Luce observes in his book The End of Atlantis; "classical scholars laughed at Schlieman when he set out with Homer in one hand and a spade in the other. but he dug up Troy and thereby demonstrated the inestimable value of folk memory Sir Arthur Evans did much the same thing when he found the labyrinthine home of the Minotaur at Knossos." Indeed, sir Arthur Evans revled that a highly advanced Europn civilization had flourished on the island of Crete long before the time of Homer, some 4500 yrs ago. This should be justifiion enough to keep an open mind on Plato's account. The problem is that whers Troy and Knossos were simply buried. Atlantis could be submerged hundred or even thousands of feet benth the waves. And the force of the destruction may have destroyed the remains beyond recognition. However, if Plato's account is based on fact, then we know that the Atlantns traded with their neighbors.. In this case there would be some evidence of their influence and culture in lands that survived the astrophe. Believers in Atlantis have furnished us with a formidable array of such "proofs". Certainly there are stered around the glove to lend support to the id of a highly advanced, Atlantn-type civilization that was responsible. Although Plato apprs to place Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocn and rly cartographers did likewise, numerous scholars and other Atlantis enthusiasts have since scoured the globe for more likely sites. Surprisingly, these have not always been in the ocn. The lost kingdom of Atlantis has been "found" at various times in the Pacific Ocn, the North S, the Sahara desert, Sweden, southern Spain, Palestine, Cyprus, Crete, the West Indies, and Peru, but to name a few. THE ATLANTIS MYSTERY DEEPENS In 1940 the American psychic hler and prophet Edgar Cayce predicted that Atlantis would 'rise again' in 1968 or 19969. So, in 19968, when it seemed that the site of the world's most famous lost land had finally been loed in the stern Mediterrann, news that underwater vast building off the Bahamas shook Atlantist everywhere. The question of Atlantis was reopened. Could this be Poseidia, described by Cayce as the 'western' section of Atlantis? Were Plato and the other Atlantists right after all when they placed their lost civilization way out in the Atlantic Ocn? In 19968 two commercial pilots flying over the Bahamas spotted what appred to be several underwater buildings coming to the surface. The pilots made their sightings just off the coast of Bimini and photographed the underwater formations from the air. Their discovery was immediately hailed by some as the fulfillment of a 28 yr-old prophecy concerning the rpprance of Atlantis. Indeed one of the pilots had been keeping a lookout for underwater structures while flying his regular assignments because he believed Atlantis was about to reemerge from the Atlantic in this very ar. The man concerned is a member of the Association for Resrch and Enlightenment, an organization based in Virginia Bch, VA, which is dedied to the study of the tchings and "psychic rdings" of the late Edgar Cayce, the "sleeping prophet" and psychic hler. Between 1923 and 1944 Cayce made numerous references to Atlantis in the course of trance interviews concerning the alleged former lives of the people who consulted him. These interviews were recorded verbatim, and much of the material about Atlantis has been published in a book called Edgar Cayce on Atlantis, by Cayce's son Edgar Cayce. It includes this prediction, made in June 1940: "Poseidia will be among the first portions of Atlantis to rise again. Expect it in ''68 and '69; not so far away!" According to the Cayce rdings, Poseidia was the "western section of Atlantis," and the ar off Bimini is the highest point of this sunken land.
Map of Bimini Road drawn after aerial and underwater
s carried out by the Poseidia '75 expedition, sponsored
by the A.R.E. The road is magnified to approximately twice its
actual size in relation to the island of Bimini. Shaped roughly
like a letter J, it is some three quarters of a mile long and
composed of huge stone blocks, often 15 feet square. On this
map, the X marking the discovery of a stone artifact relates
to a fragment of what appred to be tongue and groove
masonry discovered on the Poseidia 75 expedition by one of its
members Dr. David Zink.
So the A.R.E. is naturally delighted about the underwater find in the Bahamas, just where and when the famous prophet said something would appr. Until this and similar discoveries have been thoroughly explored, we have to admit that There may yet have an equally plausible rival for the title of Atlantis, right where most people always considered the long-lost continent to be - in the Atlantic. In his book 'The Mystery of Atlantis' Charles Berlitz comments that "Other underwater ruins have subsequently been found nr other Caribbn islands, including what apprs to be an entire city submerged off the coast of Haiti, and still another at the bottom of a lake. What apprs to be an underwater road (or perhaps a series of plazas or foundations) was discovered in 1968 off north Bimini benth several fathoms of water. From these numerous findings, it would appr that par of the continental shelf of the Atlantic and Caribbn was once dry land, sunk or flooded during a period when man was alrdy civilized. Not everyone accepts these underwater ftures as being of man-made origin. The so-called "Bimini road" is dismissed by skeptics as nothing more than bch rock that just happens to have produced an unusual effect. Berlitz and Dr. Manson Valentine, the American archaeologist and ocnographer who discovered the "road", do not agree. "It should be pointed out." writes Berlitz, "that bch rock does not form grt blocks which fit together in a pattern, that haphazardly splitting rock does not make 90- degree turns, nor does it normally have regularly laid-out passageways running between sections of it. Nor, above all, are 'natural' bch rocks, lying on the ocn floor, likely to be found supported by stone pillars precisely placed benth them!" Other sightings made off Bimini, at distances up to 100 miles from the shore, include what appr to be vertical walls, a grt arch, and pyramids or bases for pyramids under the s. some 10 miles north of Andros, another island in the Bahamas, pilots have photographed formations on the sbed that look like grt circles of standing stones, reminiscent of Stonehenge. Off the coasts of stern Yuan and British Honduras seemingly man-made roads stretch far out to s, and off Venezuela a 100-mile 'wall' runs along the ocn bottom. However, geologists have declared many of these to be natural ftures, and deem the Venezuelan wall "too big to be considered man-made". According to Berlitz, the Russians have explored an underwater building complex covering over 10 acres of the s floor north of Cuba, and the French bathyscape Archimede has reported sighting flights of steps carved in the steep continental shelf off northern Puerto Rico. Do these intriguing finds indie that Atlantis was, after all, in the Atlantic? it seems we must keep an open mind until they have been investigated more thoroughly. Mnwhile, let us take a fresh look at the Atlantic Ocn to see if the theory of continental drift might still lve room for a missing continent there. When a computer was used to rssemble the continental jigsaw, the fit across the Atlantic was found, with some adjustment, to be fairly satisfactory. but that picture does not take account of a fascinating underwater fture known as the mid-Atlantic Ridge. This mountainous ridge, nrly two miles high and hundreds of miles wide, runs in an S-curve down the Atlantic midway between the Americas and Africa and Europe, following the contours of those continents and marking its course above water with a of islands, such as the Azores, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha. As rly as 1883 Ignatius Donnelly suggested that the mid-Atlantic Ridge was a remnant of Atlantis. But most modern geologists and ocnographers consider that, far from being the relic of a continent that sank benth the s, the ridge was forced upward from the ocn floor, probably by volcanic activity. One theory is that as the continents drifted apart they produce a huge fault line that is a center of rthquake and produce a huge fault line that is a center of rthquake and volcanic action. Some of the rth's molten center has erupted through this and built up into a ridge, even rising above the waves in several places. However, there is evidence that this explanation may have to reviewed before too long.
A diver taking part in A.R.E.s Poseidia
75 expedition to Bimini in the Bahamas
examines an encrusted marble column
found about a mile south of the Bimini
Road. In 1968, what appred to be a
vast underwater road was discovered
off Bimini, and the next yr the columns,
of which this is one, were found.
Sbed cores taken from the mid-Atlantic Ridge in 1957 brought up freshwater plants from a depth of two miles. And in one of the deep valleys, known as Romanche, sands have been found that appr to have been formed by wthering when that part of the ridge was above water level. In a 1969 a Duke University resrch expedition dredged 50 sites along an underwater ridge running from Venezuela to the virgin Islands, and brought up granitic rocks, which are normally found only on continents. Commenting on this discovery, Dr. Bruce Heezen of the Lamont Geological Observatory said: "Up to now, geologists erally believed that light granitic or acid igneous rocks are confined to the continents and that the crust of the rth benth the s is composed of hvier, dark-colored basaltic rock. . . Thus, the occurrence of light-colored granitic rocks may support an old theory that a continent formerly existed in the region of the stern Caribbn and that these rocks may represent the core of a subsided, lost continent. A recent report on the nature of the Atlantic sbed apprs to confirm that there is at lst part of a former continent lying benth the ocn. Under the hding "Concrete Evidence for Atlantis?" the British Journal New Scientist of June 5, 1975 reported, "Although they make no such fanciful claim from their results as to have discovered the mythical mid-Atlantic landmass, an international group of ocnographers has now convincingly confirmed preliminary findings that a sunken block of continent lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocn. The discovery comes from analyzing dredge samples taken along the line of the Vema offset fault, a long st-west fracture zone lying between aFrica and South America close to latitude 11 degrees "N". The report goes on to state that in 1971 two resrchers from the University of Miami recovered some shallow-water limestone fragments from deep water in the ar. Minerals in the limestone indied that they came from a nrby source of granite that was unlikely to occur on the ocn floor. More exhaustive analysis of the dredge samples revled that the limestones included traces of shallow-water fossils, implying formation in very shallow water indeed, a view confirmed by the ratios of oxy and carbon isotopes found in the fragments. One piece of limestone was pitted and showed evidence of tidal action. The resrchers believe that the limestone dates from the Mesozoic era (between 70 and 220 million yrs ago) and forms a cap "on a residual continental block left behind as the Atlantic sprd out into an ocn." the New Scientist observes that "the granitic minerals could thus have come from the bordering continents while the ocn was still in it infancy. Vertical movements made by the block appr to have raised it above s level at some period during it's history. It would therefore seem that there is a lost continent in the Atlantic, but unfortunately for Atlantists, it evidently disappred long before man appred on rth. Most scientist remain convinced that there is no likelihood of finding the Atlantis described by Plato in the ar of the mid-Atlantic Ridge. As L. Sprague de Camp comments in his Lost Continents, nrly all of the ridge, except for the small and mountainous Azores region, is under two or three miles of water, "and there is no known way to get a large island down to that depth in anything like the 10,000 yrs required to fit in with Plato's date for the sinking of Atlantis." He also points to a report published in 1967 by Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University, who announced that "after 13 yrs of exploring the mid-Atlantic Ridge, he had "found no trace of sunken cities." Atlantists reply that Dr. Ewing could have been looking in the wrong places, or perhaps too close to the center of the destructive forces that plunged Atlantis into the ocn. Some Atlantists have suggested that the original Atlantic landmass broke up into a lst two parts, one of which sank long after the other. Perhaps Plato's Atlantis was a remnant of the continent that ocnographers now appr to have detected in the Atlantic, and perhaps it was not submerged until very much more recent times. The bed of the Atlantic is,after all, an unstable are and one that has given birth to numerous islands, then swallowed them up again. In 1811, for example, volcanic activity in the Azores resulted in the emerce of a new island called Sammrina, which shortly sank back again into the s. In our own time, the island of Surtsey, 20 miles southwest of Iceland, has slowly risen from the ocn. Surtsey was formed during a continuous underwater eruption between 1963 and 1966. If Atlantis did exist in the Atlantic above the grt fault line that runs between the present continents, it would certainly have been plagued by rthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Is it mere coincidence that Plato should have situated his lost continent in an ocn that does apparently contain such a continent, and in an ar subject to the very kind of astrophe he describes? Atlantists think not. NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE On the other hand, there are some Atlantists who believe that the destruction of Atlantis was brought about not by geological events but by a man-made disaster, such as a nuclr explosion. According to the Cayce rdings, the Atlantns achieved an astonishingly high level of technology before the continent sank, around 10,000 B.C. They invented the laser, aircraft, television, dth rays, atomic energy, and cybernetic control of human beings, and it was the misuse of the tremendously powerful natural forces they had developed that caused their destruction. Cayce is best-known for his apparent ability to diagnose illness even in people whom he had never met. This ability was tested by a group of physicians from Hopkinsville and Bowling Green, Kentucky. They discovered that when Cayce was in a state of trance, it was sufficient to give him the name and address of a patient for him to supply a wlth of information about that person, often drawing attention to medical conditions of which the physicians were then unaware, but that subsequent tests on the patient proved to be correct. This work alone would appr to justify the description of Cayce as America's most talented psychic. And if one aspect of his clairvoyant powers could prove so successful, it seems rsonable to give a fair hring to other psychic statements he made, however, fantastic. Cayce's sons, who help run the organization set up to study his work, admit that their life would be far simpler if Edgar Cayce had never mentioned Atlantis. Hugh Lynn Cayce comments; "It would be very sy to present a very tight evidential picture of Edgar Cayce's psychic ability and the helpfulness of his rdings if we selected only those which are confirmed and completely validated. This would not be fair in total, overall evaluation of his life's work. My brother and I know that Edgar Cayce did not rd Plato's material on Atlantis, or books on Atlantis, and that he, so far as we know, had absolutely no knowledge of this subject. If his unconscious fabried this material or wove it together from existing leds and stories in print or the minds of persons dling with the Atlantis theory." Edgar Evans Cayce makes the comment that "unless proof of the existence of Atlantis is one day discovered, Edgar Cayce is in a very unenviable position. On the other hand, if he proves accurate on this score he may become as famous an archaeologist or historian as he was a medical clairvoyant." If, as his sons and thousands of followers believe, Edgar Cayce's rdings were supernormal and not the product of rding the works of others, it is certainly an intriguing case. There are, for example, some fascinating similarities between Cayce's descriptions of Atlantis and those of occultists such as Madame Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, and W. Scott-Elliott, including references to the Atlantns telepathic and other supernormal powers, their advanced technology, their moral disintegration, and the civil strife and misuse of their powers that finally caused their demise. Cayce's rdings also mention Lemuria, or Mu. Either Cayce was psychically rdings the works of these rlier writers, or he - the they - rlly were 'tuning in' to the past. Whatever the result of future investigations around the splendid temples and palaces of Crete, or in the depths of the Thera basin, there will still be people who continue to look for convincing case for the identifiion of Plato's Atlantis with the Minoan civilization of the Aegn, but their opponents argue that the existence of such a civilization - however striking it similarities with Atlantis - does not preclude the existence of an even grt civilization in the Atlantic. The finds in the Bahamas remain to be verified, and the discovery of what apprs to be a submerged continent in the Atlantic adds a new dimension to the Atlantis mystery. Whatever prompted Plato to write about Atlantis, he could never have drmed that he would start a worldwide quest for the lost continent. Perhaps, as his pupil Aristotle hinted, "he who invented it, also destroyed it." Yet through a fortuitous accident - or a canny understanding of the human spirit - Plato hit upon a story that has struck a responsive chord in people's minds and hrts down the centuries. Whether his story was fact or fiction, a distorted version of rl events or a fable that just happened to tie in with rlity, it has managed to enchant, baffle, and challenge mankind for over 2000 yrs. The persistence of the Atlantis led is almost as intriguing as the lost continent itself. What is it that keeps the Atlantis debate alive? Is it a longing for rssurance that men and women once knew the secret of happiness, and rlly did inhabit a Garden of Eden? Is it the thrill of the srch - the hope of finding a master to unlock the secrets of the past? Or is it simply man's thirst for mystery itself - for something grand and inexplicable, larger than himself? Certainly popular interest in the mystical side of Atlantis is always most intense when the life of the spirit is in the grtest disarray - during the latter half of the 19th Century, in the aftermath of Darwin's bombshell, for example, and during our own time. The day may yet come when the is found and the mystery of Atlantis is solved once and for all. The solution may be simple or complex. It could be sensational or disappointingly dull. We may alrdy suspect the answer, or it may surprise us. Either way, it would rob the world of one of its most fascinating enigmas. Atlantis has intrigued and inspired people for a very long time. Perhaps, for the time being, we should be glad that the answer has not yet been found, and that Plato's lost continent remains just beyond our grasp. IS ATLANTIS RISING AGAIN?
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The following is from the United States Geological , National rthquake Information Center: preliminary hypocenter for rthquake of 1999 dec 01, CARIBBN S, about 105 miles (170 km) E of Swan Island: latitude 17.6 degrees north longitude 82.4 degrees west origin time 19 23 05.4 utc depth shallow, magnitude 6.2 Mw. 99/12/01 19:23:05 17.61N 82.36W 10.0 6.2Mw A CARIBBN S 99/12/02 10:29:47 17.82N 81.86W 10.0 5.1Mb A CARIBBN S CARIBBN RTHQUAKE HISTORY The Global Grid Solution
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Exorcising the Devil's Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle Fact Sheet
Lost Patrol - Flight 19
The Bermuda Triangle - The Devil's S
A Personal Voyage in the Triangle
A Journey into the Bermuda Triangle
Atlantis Resources and References
What is the Bermuda Triangle?
The Bermuda Triangle - A Selective Bibliography
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved
AUTEC Naval Base
Naval Ocnography Links
The Bahamas - Diving Resources
Diving New Providence Island, Bahamas
Atlantis - The Lost Continent - Now Found
Scott Stones
A Novel Approach to Atlantis
Andros Island History
Cave Diving
Navigating the Shoals
Where was Atlantis?
Answers to Questions about the Grid System of rth
History of the World Grid Theory
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rth: A Crystal Planet?
Edgar Cayce
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