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GOOD-BYE TO THE BIMINI WALL AND ROAD?

A perennial fixture of sensational archeology has been the frequent report of submerged "walls" or "roads" off North Bimini, in the Bahamas. That there are closely fitted, rectilinear stones under about 15 feet of water is not in question.
The 1- to 10-ton blocks surely look manmade, but are they really? E.A. Shinn describes several "beach-rock" formations in the area, some exposed and some submerged under a few feet of water.
This beach rock, as his photos demonstrate, has a natural tendency to fracture into rectangular blocks, creating strips of pavement-like blocks essentially identical to the famous Bimini road.

Proponents of Atlantis and other radical archeological theories do not deny the similarity of the formations or even that the natural and supposedly man-made blocks are of the same composition.
The Atlanteans, they say, obviously made use of readily available materials, and beach rock was their choice. Shinn goes on to prove to his satisfaction that the Bimini block formations are still in place where geological forces left them about 2,200 years ago.
Further, he notes, there are absolutely no traces of human workmanship and no human artifacts in the area.

One mystery is admitted, however, in this debunking article; and that is the unanswered question of how the Bimini rocks came to be submerged in 15 feet of water, when considerable evidence indicates that no such sea-level changes occurred in the last 2,200 years.

There is something very interesting and manmade on the shallow seafloor near Bimini. That sea levels might not have changed much in the last 2200 years or so, would have nothing to do with Atlantis in any event, for that sinking was more than 10,000 years ago,

--in fact, the last subsidence of same is usually dated to the era from some 11500 to 10500 years ago...this is similar to the end of the Ice Age, in conventional chronology...