Explorers View 'Lost City' Ruins Under Caribbean

Reuters ^ | December 6, 2001 | Andrew Cawthorne

[spycatcher]

Old background info posted here

For some reason the Free Republic search engine doesn't search posts more than a week or two old, so a more recent posted update isn't available to link. I found this old one using Google, but they don't index more recent FR stuff.

[rwfromkansas]

Hello, Atlantis. MAYBE....:)

[spycatcher]

Here's the more recent exclusive that scooped the mainstream media by two weeks and prompted Reuters to update their original report.

[Phil V.]

Atlantis?

No.

Flash Gordon's secret base.

[Traction]

What remained of The Maine was refloated after the investigation into her explosion. She was towed to sea beyond the 12 mile limit and scuttled in International waters. The location of her re-sinking has been known since that time. Again, the press can't get it right.

[rwfromkansas]

I doubt Atlantis is as large as initially thought, but at the same time, the literary record speaks of such a place. Contrary to most people who just brush off something they think is too far-fetched, I at least have an open mind on this. This may not be it, but it is one of the areas that is looked at geographically.

[CalConservative]

Seems to coincide well with the age of the Flood. More evidence!

[crypt2k]

Probably natural rock formations.

[Lancey Howard]

Zelitsky said the structures may have been built by unknown people when the current sea-floor actually was above the surface.

Interesting theory....

[#3Fan]

Another lost city thread. :^)

[crypt2k]

Scientists stumble upon sunken Maine

[The_Expatriate]

Lost city? How careless can one get? I mean, to misplace an entire city for centuries...

[spycatcher]

You're right that it was found and raised but at the time it only had to be towed 3-4 miles out for reburial in international waters.

[jrewingjr]

Here's a link to the same story - different source: Update on Underwater Megalithic Structures near Western Cuba. Very interesting, many pictures and diagrams.

[Anotherpundit]

"Atlantis" was a myth totally invented by Plato. Whatever this is, it's not Atlantis -- if nothing else, there wasn't any contact between the west and east hemispheres!

[spycatcher]

Hey I just posted that! Thanks anyhow, but what I couldn't find was the Free Republic post of that same article from a couple of weeks ago.

[jrewingjr]

Speaking of scooped, sorry I did not see your link in #3 when I posted my reply. Stupid eyes! Everyone should check it out. I listened to the story on the air and checked out the site a couple of weeks ago. Really amazing stuff.

[hinckley buzzard]

Flash Gordon's secret base has a higher probability.

Plato definitively located Atlantis as outside the pillars of Hercules. And he ought to know, since he made it up.

As in other of his writings, Plato made overt and exlicit use of myths and stories as instructional aids, especially for communicating moral lessons to children, which is the context in which the Atlantis story is put in the mouth of Timaeus.

It's a lot of fun to imagine a great ancient city lost beneath the waves, but that's all it is. The fact remains, there was no record of the Atlantis myth anywhere, ever, in any language, before Plato's stories.

It is a better thing to cultivate wonder at the mysteries of the real world, rather than to besot the imagination with idle fantasies...

[billybudd]

No, you fools, it's Fidel's underwater hideaway!

[Clinton's a rapist]

The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft