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Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 22 January 2010  Page Views: 13079

Natural PlacesSite Name: Bimini Road Alternative Name: Bimini Wall
Country: Caribbean Islands
NOTE: This site is 738.962 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Nassau  Nearest Village: Barley Town
Latitude: 25.765000N  Longitude: 79.28W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Not Known (by us) in the Bahamas.
An underwater rock formation, the Bimini Road is made of large, roughly rectangular stones of a limestone conglomerate known as "beachrock". The .5 mile long feature is generally straight for most of its length and then turns sharply at one end. The pieces of beachrock are generally eroded, with rounded edges and corners.

The feature is described variously:
- as a natural pavement which has become broken into pieces in place due to natural forces, or,
- as a man made structure, built either during an ice age when the shoreline of the Bahamas would have extended much farther out into the sea, or more exotically, prior to sudden and cataclysmic events that plunged it beneath the waves.
Much of the argument, for and against each basic hypothesis, involves whether or not there is more than one course of stones laid in place, the nature of smaller stones seen beneath the main layer, and exactly where bedrock lies in the area. Examination of the structure, by its very nature, is a difficult effort. Proponents of a natural origin find the "published" records of expeditions mounted by the backers of a man made origin lacking enough evidence to disprove the more mundane explanation.

Note: Diver's hired by Physic's foundation to Search for Atlantis. See Comment.
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Divers seeking Lost Continent of Atlantis in Bahamas by bat400 on Friday, 22 January 2010
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Submitted by coldrum ---

A group of Florida-based technical divers is poised to try to solve a New Age/ancient mystery near the island of Bimini, Bahamas, 50 miles off the South Florida coast.

Gainesville-based Global Underwater Explorers -- best known for mapping massive underground springs in North Florida -- has been hired by a Virginia Beach-based non-profit group to try to uncover evidence of the Lost Continent of Atlantis. The Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.) is devoted to the teachings of the late Edgar Cayce -- one of America's best-known psychics.

Cayce weighed in on a variety of subjects. One of his readings was that "Atlantis will rise near Bimini in 1969."

In 1968, Miamian D.J. Manson Valentine was flying over the Bimini Islands when he spotted a mysterious, U-shaped stone formation in shallow water near north Bimini that has since been dubbed the "Bimini Road."


[A.R.E. Director, Van Auken, 63, a lifelong Cayce devotee, hopes the divers from Global Underwater Explorers can unlock the secrets. Van Auken said the explorers are expected to conduct as many as four deep-diving missions near Bimini in 2010. Van Auken expects to spend between $20,000 and $50,000, securing a large mothership as the mission base for dives using rebreathers, high-definition video and digital mapping equipment, and possibly a two-person submarine.

Van Auken said previous explorations in the area -- some using high-tech methods such as sub-bottom profiling and side-scan sonar -- have shown "unnatural features" that appear to have been constructed by humans. He is not bothered by the taunts of Atlantis naysayers.

"We hope this will prove to be a remnant of Atlantis," he said. "With archaeologists, I don't use the 'A-word.' I use 'pre-Ice Age culture of some sophistication.' If you use the A-word, boy, you're out."

Robert Carmichael, CEO of Brownie's Marine Group, based in Fort Lauderdale, is one of the leaders of the GUE expedition. While Carmichael doesn't exactly buy into the Atlantis theory, he and his colleagues have observed some of the "unnatural features" Van Auken mentioned -- long, curving sandy trails winding through the sides of steep, underwater cliffs 200 to 300 feet deep that look like mountain switchback trails or ski runs."

"We're looking for evidence of human-made features," he said. "It's fine to not believe it. There are some of us that have this gut feeling and enjoy the search."

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