From: L' Ermit (lhermit@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 14:58:29 MST
Be very skeptical
Alexandria, Herakleion and Menouthis are real:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sunken/
http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/underseacities02.htm
As are numerous other Mediterranean Basin sites.
The bulk of the other "finds" have turned out to be overenthusiastic
interpretation of sidescan sonar images and even photographs of basalt
formations as found in the Giants Causeway in Ireland and off Cuba and
Japan. You can see from the images that these could easily confuse a diver -
never mind sonar. And yes, I'm pointing you there to see the pictures not
the text. Despite the claims made on that site it is beyond doubt that these
are natural formations.
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/phikent/japan/japan.html and
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/phikent/japan/japan2.html
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/phikent/japan/japan3.html
Hermit
http://www.lanuevacuba.com/nuevacuba/notic-01-12-820.htm
LOST CITY FOUND BENEATH CUBAN WATERS MAY BE A TRICK OF NATURE
[Hermit not maybe, is]
By David Keys
Archaeology Correspondent
The Independent
London
UK
Diciembre 8, 2001
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A Canadian underwater exploration company using sonar has found what looks
like an ancient lost city at the bottom of the Caribbean off Cuba.
The company, Advanced Digital Communications, based in British Columbia,
says an area of 20 sq km (8 sq miles) 650m below sea-level might have been a
large "urban centre" 6,000 years ago.
The submerged landscape has shapes resembling pyramids, roads and buildings,
with blocks of rocks measuring between 2m and 5m long, some stacked one on
top of another.
Archaeologists, however, believe that it is more likely that the explorers
have found a relatively common phenomenon.
Martin Dean, director of one of the world's leading marine archaeological
institutions, the University of St Andrews' Archaeological Diving Unit,
said: "The world's seas and oceans are full of underwater limestone, basalt
and other natural geological formations, some of them covering many square
miles, which are mistakenly interpreted as sunken cities with monotonous
regularity."
Over recent years there have been a number of "sunken city" claims and they
have all turned out to be submerged limestone or other geological
formations.
Cracking in limestone often creates natural "pavements" and other formations
that can look very similar to structures made by humans. The site is also
too deep for any human-made structures.
Dr Alistair Crame, head of the Geological Sciences Division of the British
Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, said: "It's very unlikely that the seabed
would drop 650m in 6,000 years. Normally geologists would expect such
subsidence to occur over millions of years; 650 metres is also 550 metres
below the lowest global sea levels experienced over the past million years."
One of the salvage company's engineers, Paulina Zelitsky, said: "It's a
really wonderful structure which looks like it could have been a large urban
centre. However, it would be totally irresponsible to say what it is before
we have evidence."
Her company is one of four foreign firms working with the Cuban government
in a search for Spanish treasure ships on the seabed of the Caribbean.
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