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A team of divers and archaeologists have made a discovery deep in the sea off the Gulf of Cadiz that they hope could possibly solve an enigma that is thousands of years old. They uncovered large concentric circular structures that look like artificial walls which are said to bear similarities to Plato’s descriptions of the mysterious lost city of Atlantis. At a press conference held in the Cádiz municipality of Chipiona this Saturday, September 30, the divers and technicians who carried out a scan of the area, spoke of their findings. Spain's Supreme Court Prevents La Línea De La Concepción...

The replica of a wooden Phoenician ship, which visited Lyme Regis last year, has completed its 6,000 mile voyage across the Atlantic. The Phoenicia visited Lyme Regis last July before setting out on its voyage from the old port of Carthage, Tunisia, in September. It called in at Cadiz (Spain), Essaouira (Morocco), Tenerife (Canary Islands) and Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) before arriving in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the Coral Ridge Yacht Club on Thursday, February 4... The ship's trans-Atlantic voyage was part of the Phoenicians Before Columbus Expedition, designed, with the help of the US-based Phoenician International Research Center, to...

For six years, a building supervisor in Spain quietly collected a $41,500 salary from his local government without showing up for work. And he would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for him getting an award for his 20 years of loyal service. Joaquin Garcia, 69, was recently fined $30,000 for the extended paid vacation from a water treatment plant in Cadiz -- the maximum penalty government officials could deliver, the BBC reported.

NORTHAMPTON, Mass (Reuters) – A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain. "This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters. "It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," said Freund, a University of Hartford, Connecticut, professor who lead an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis. To solve the age-old mystery, the team used a satellite...

Portuguese police have seized half a tonne of explosives at a house that they say was being used as a base by Basque separatist group Eta. The discovery, which also included bomb-making equipment, was made in the central Portugal town of Obidos. Fake licence plates, detonators and maps were also found, officials said. A militant group fighting for an independent Basque homeland, Eta has been blamed for more than 820 deaths during its campaign in Spain. "The material was stored in secure conditions which indicates the work of professionals," local police chief Helder Barros said. Several of the explosives were...

People who say that nothing's harder to get rid of than a bad penny must never have met Keith Brackpool. The British-born promoter, who has spent the last dozen years pushing a scheme to pump water to Southern California from beneath 35,000 acres his Cadiz Inc. owns in the Mojave Desert, just won't go away. ... In the past his posse has included ex-Gov. Gray Davis and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Now he has added Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who last week publicly endorsed the scheme as "a path-breaking, new, sustainable groundwater conservation and storage project." The endorsement was embedded...

Let us today hoist a glass — preferably of cool, clean Colorado River water — to Keith Brackpool, a walking illustration of how the generous bestowal of campaign donations and other largess can keep a man cozy with California politicians, even in the face of evidence that what he's selling may not be worth buying. Brackpool is the chairman and chief executive of Cadiz Inc. For years, Cadiz tried to entice the Metropolitan Water District into a $150-million scheme to store surplus water from the Colorado in the Mojave Desert. The skeptical MWD, which serves most of Southern California, finally...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Thirsty, Growing States Turn to New Sources to Meet Demand CADIZ, Calif. -- This is one big, dry state, and Keith Brackpool wants to slake its thirst. The politically connected British wheeler-dealer is pressing ahead with an ingenious plan to sell billions of gallons of drinking water to Southern California from his company's aquifer, buried here beneath the broiling badlands of the Mojave Desert. Contentious? They don't call them "water wars" for nothing.

SACRAMENTO -- A British-born water mogul who has directed more than $250,000 to Gov. Gray Davis is drawing conflict of interest complaints as he pushes a massive Southern California water project that could earn his company half a billion dollars over 50 years. Davis has turned to Keith Brackpool repeatedly for advice on water issues, and the governor's aides have asked him to weigh in on key policymaking sessions, even when Brackpool's companies stood to gain. An early Davis supporter, Brackpool is a prominent example of the entrepreneurs who have contributed heavily to Davis and been rewarded with high-profile appointments...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new chief of staff, who is spearheading a $9-billion plan to improve California's water system, was paid $120,000 last year by a Los Angeles developer seeking to build a massive water storage project under the Mojave Desert. According to interviews and her financial disclosure statement, Susan P. Kennedy earned $10,000 per month in 2005 as a consultant to Cadiz Real Estate, operated by her longtime friend Keith Brackpool. For nearly a decade, the British-born Brackpool has tried unsuccessfully to put together a public-private partnership that would use the aquifers under his San Bernardino property to...

--gt; Babbitt Will Head New Cadiz Unit Seeking Opportunities in Mideast SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has joined water-development firm Cadiz Inc. and will head a new subsidiary aimed at finding business opportunities in the Middle East.Mr. Babbitt, the former Arizona governor who ran the Interior Department during the Clinton administration, gives Cadiz -- a company known for its high-profile political connections -- a big name to draw upon as it seeks to manage water resources in one of the most arid parts of the world.quot;I would think you would open some pretty big doorsquot; by...

<p>Keith Brackpool, chief executive of Cadiz Inc. and the man who would be king of California's new private water industry, has spent much of his career swimming in controversy.</p> <p>He once resigned as CEO of a company after loaning himself money from the firm's treasury. He was linked indirectly to a spectacular corporate collapse in his native England.</p>

The Atlantis between Spain and Morocco Revealing discoveries  Expedition: "The Ibero-Marroqui Atlantis '"   By Maria Fdez-Valmayor  A Scientific Expedition has started off at the end of this summer for the area of the Straits of Gibraltar in search of possible ruins of the well-known civilization like Atlantis by Plato. According to the project? Atlantis Ibero-Moroccan, between the coasts of southwest of the Iberian Peninsula and the northwest of Africa evidences of cities or submerged coastal villages of the Age of the Bronze would have to be, that could belong to the Island or Peninsula of Atlantis. The expedition...

--- Does a Trail Exist? --- Published November 4, 2002 by Forest Glen Durland Copyright 2002 by Forest Glen Durland Contents Introduction Treasures attracting various types of people. Gold Fever!!! Tracks - Footprints in the Sand. Here is where the action starts. Definitions Land Swap Game - Here's the routine. Players in the Game References and sources of documentation with excerpts to help research scholars. End Note   Introduction Only facts are presented with links to documentation. The readers are free to check that documentation and form their own conclusions. There definitely exists a big bucks scam involving the swapping...

<p>This was one of the loonier water ideas Southern California has ever come up with -- to pay a politically connected entrepreneur millions upon millions of dollars to pump a corner of the Mojave Desert. Yes, the arid Mojave.</p> <p>Total payout: more than a half-billion dollars (valued in today's currency) over a half-century. With a Rolodex of lobbyists and leaders that only money can buy, the company named Cadiz Inc. seemed to have it all. Everything, that is, except the water.</p>