Is the meaning here that it's probable that the builders erected the structures under water? 
Posted on 05/23/2002 4:59:38 PM PDT by blam
Funny what a small world it is. I first went to Bimini and Chub Cay as a teenager in 1962.
I still go to both places when I can. After all these years, the fishing is still great.
I wanted my kids to know their beauty too, and took them there often as they were growing up.
Is the meaning here that it's probable that the builders erected the structures under water?
I've seen more 'creditable' reports about The Bimini Road being a natural formation than I've seen otherwise. The key word is 'creditable.' I spent a little time in the region in the '62-'64 time frame myself.
Aha! Enter my theory: The Gulf Of Mexico was blocked off (from the world's oceans) through Florida, Cuba and the Yucatan during the Ice Age. Over thousands of years, the Gulf partially dried out and eventually created a stable but reduced water level in the Gulf. The builders of this 'city' built on the shoreline of the 'reduced water level Gulf.'
When the Ice Age began to end and the world's oceans began to rise, the 'dam' broke and re-flooded the Gulf, submerging these structures. (just like the flood that broke through at the Bosporus and flooded the Black Sea, "Noah's Flood.")
Some are saying that The Bimini Road is associated with the civilization that built the underwater 'city' and was all part of a massive complex in that region. (Throw in a few earthquakes, some volcanic activity and maybe even a meteorite.)
I'm of the opinion that there is more to ancient histroy than we know.
I was remembering from a radio interview from last year.That may very well be true.(A fine interview among others can be found at this link below ) under 'Science and Medicine' from Dec of 2001,w/ an intersting Pic on her computer.Take a look.Like I said before,it appears she's doing this on HER TIME, no one elses.And if I found something like this,I'd probably tell people to back off too! LOL
http://www.earthfiles.com/earth310.htm
Sonar image of underwater site.
The Cactus Hill site and other sites suggest humans came to the Americas earlier than previously thought.
The sea level was still very low in 12,000.
So any human-built structures at then-sea-level would have to be at least 100 feet down.
With much of Eastern Carribean being shallow, could that have left places like the Cayman depths cut off from the Atlantic?
Blam's huge underwater terrain map of the entire planet swamped my PC, but it is mind-expanding and answers a lot of questions about prehistoric migrations.
With much of Eastern Carribean being shallow, could that have left places like the Cayman depths cut off from the Atlantic?"
Now you have your thinking cap on. The reduced ocean level range that I have seen the most mentioned is 300-500ft with most accepting 400ft. Somewhere I have an underwater map of the world with the ocean levels reduced by 300ft. It gets real interesting in the Caribbean and others areas show the Persian Gulf dried up, the Red Sea landlocked, Japan and Korea connected and etc. I'll see if I can find it again and post it. Also, don't forget the early American, Topper Site.
This is the general location of what Edgar Cayce said was the continent of Atlantis ... Cayce was a "psychic", but he nailed an amazing number of things in the teens, 20's and 30's ... He also nailed the structures off the coast of Bimini including the year they were discovered.
I've read most of Cayce's "readings". I don't recall the specific nails you refer to, but I do recall:
Cayce predicted that Atlantis would "rise" and to "expect it in 1968 and 1969". [See 958-3, Par. R5.]
As for the location, Cayce placed Atlantis; "between the Gulf of Mexico on the one hand - and the Mediterranean upon the other... the Pyrenees and Morocco on the one hand, British Honduras, Yucatan and America upon the other ... The British West Indies or the Bahamas ... Bimini and in the Gulf Stream through this vicinity..." [See 364-3, Par. R2]
Imho, that covers quite a chunk of territory, hardly a "nail".
USA Today Published Nov. 27, 2000
The road to Atlantis?...The Bimini Road part of the debate dates back to the 1930s, when Cayce went into a hypnotic trance and predicted evidence would be found near the island in the 1960s.
As the date neared, so did the searches for Atlantis, and several private pilots reported seeing what appeared to be a man-made anomaly in the waters off Bimini.
In the 1970s, David Zink, an amateur geologist who was formerly an English professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, took samples of the stones to a Houston psychic, who concluded they were part of fallen pillars from a sacred temple built around 28,000 B.C. The temple was built primarily by Atlanteans, Zink concluded, and their subcontractors were aliens from the star cluster Pleiades.
More scientific expeditions have been conducted in the area with inconclusive results. Skeptics say the Bimini Road is a natural formation of native beachrock and, indeed, seemingly similar formations can be found along the shorelines of North and South Bimini.
Others have suggested the rocks are ballast dumped from sailing ships...
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