Previously undiscovered ancient city found on Caribbean sea floor

Herald de Paris ^ | 12/9/2009 | Jes Alexander

[Abathar]

WASHINGTON, DC (Herald de Paris) - EXCLUSIVE - Researchers have revealed the first images from the Caribbean sea floor of what they believe are the archaeological remains of an ancient civilization. Guarding the location’s coordinates carefully, the project’s leader, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time, says the city could be thousands of years old; possibly even pre-dating the ancient Egyptian pyramids, at Giza.

The site was found using advanced satellite imagery, and is not in any way associated with the alleged site found by Russian explorers near Cuba in 2001, at a depth of 2300 feet. “To be seen on satellite, our site is much shallower.” The team is currently seeking funding to mount an expedition to confirm and explore what appears to be a vast underwater city. “You have to be careful working with satellite images in such a location,” the project’s principle researcher said, “The digital matrix sometimes misinterprets its data, and shows ruins as solid masses. The thing is, we’ve found structure - what appears to be a tall, narrow pyramid; large platform structures with small buildings on them; we’ve even found standing parallel post and beam construction in the rubble of what appears to be a fallen building. You can’t have post and beam without human involvement.”

Asked if this city is the legendary city of Atlantis, the researchers immediately said no. “The romanticized ideal of Atlantis probably never existed, nor will anyone ever strap on a SCUBA tank, jump in the water, and find a city gateway that says, ‘Welcome to Atlantis.’ However, we do believe that this city may have been one of many cities of an advanced, seafaring, trade-based civilization, which may have been visited by their Eurocentric counterparts.”

[dangus]

The top just looks like artifacts from saving images in small file sizes. The bottom... so the water is THAT clear we can see such details on the sea bottom through hundreds of feet of water.

[dragnet2]

Top image, top left side, appears to be airport/runway.

[Leo Carpathian]

Aaaamazing! Even clouds under water!
Musta have been built by fish-people.
Kinga Husssein Oooobama taxed them soooo much, that they sunk!

[Beowulf9]

boy, this is interesting. Somebody aught to tell Sunken Civ!

[eldoradude]

Here's more detailed image:

[citizencon]

the city could be thousands of years old; possibly even pre-dating the ancient Egyptian pyramids, at Giza.

I bet they'd find a statue of Helen...Thomas, that is...

[martinidon]

The global warming freaks will go nuts over this. They will claim that there is a 75% chance this will be NYC in 5 years....

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Nothing new. Back in March and April of 1966 the major newspapers had several articles about sunken cities “found” off the coast of Peru and Chili.

Nothing was ever mentioned about them again.

[eldoradude]

And another - what appears to be clouds is sunlight reflecting off the surface of the water:

[exinnj]

The “researcher” is anonymous, the location is “hidden” - classical signs of a hoax.

[stboz]

Oh, horse-feathers. Look at the streets! Where are the interchanges? I see no cloverleafs or diamonds.

OTOH, maybe all they had was SUVs...with no freeways, how do you get to grandma's house?

These folks got drowned out after the last iceage ended....just ask the polar bears....Damn! This is getting complicated.....Algore is in Copenhagen....maybe if I call him to explain.....no, wait a minute...there can't be any polar bears....Gore said so.....just, Damn!

[Othniel]

Looks like a giant computer chip. Maybe they'll find "Intel 8088" written on it somewhere.

[eldoradude]

the Starbucks prominently displayed in the lower left edge of the city.....

Maybe if I got good at photoshop I could do some images of prehistoric Starbucks off the coast of Hawaii...and with our Nigerian banker friends could raise money for an expedition and research. Hehe, I'd rather go to Hawaii than the Caribbean :D

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks GeronL for the ping, and thanks Abathar for posting the topic. Here's a link Quix sent me on another thread:

• More from Caribbean site .. New detail images just released

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[DTogo]

Smells fishy...

[Tribune7]

Guarding the location’s coordinates carefully, the project’s leader, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time . . .

I don't think I'd buy shares in anything this guy is selling.

[Nighttime in America]

There are several different types of “satellite imagery”, such as radar, visual, infra-red, or combinations of them. The article doesn’t say which one was used. So there’s no way to guess how realistic the images are.

[SunkenCiv]

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[dragnet2]

The “researcher” is anonymous, the location is “hidden” - classical signs of a hoax.

Ya think?

Ya mean that isn't an airport, under the ocean, in the upper left image?

Had me fooled.

[RegulatorCountry]

Wonder how deep they were in debt.

They were underwater, clearly.