posted 09-21-2003 01:02 AM            

By Paul Bader

More and more evidence is coming to light in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea which suggests that an ancient civilization dwelt there at the end of the last Ice Age when sea levels were lower and much of the area including the Grand Bahama Bank was dry land. In addition to the controversial Bimini formation discovered in 1968, and Paulina Zelitsky's discovery of an underwater "city" off the western tip of Cuba in 2001, Drs. Greg and Lora Little recently found a multi-tiered platform off Andros Island which is apparently larger in some respects than the Bimini formation. See: ://www.edgarcayce.org/am/ for details.

Last year, I contacted author/researcher William Donato of the Atlantis Organization to inquire on recent discoveries: "

The big news now is "Long Rocks" -- it's between Cat Island and Little San Salvador. Ron Smith first noticed it. It is limestone blocks covered with coral. They appear to be the remnants of triple concentric circles with a common center and other elements leading to the center as well as a long canal (it's described by diver Jay Darnell as a canal with flat square stones with a rippled appearance). The diameter of the outer circle is 2.2 miles and the long grand canal about 5 miles long -- both just the same as in Plato. It may be the Temple of Poseidon. We are going to try to check on it in June. We have a nonprofit organization now called A.P.E.X. Institute which takes donation and is funding this expedition. I look forward to hearing from you. Peace of the ONE! Bill Donato "

Bill Donato also believes that the Grand Bahama Bank was Edgar Cayce's "Poseidia" the western-most portion of the empire of Atlantis as it existed 12,500 years ago. I will be providing more details on this find and other Project Alta expeditions led by Mr. Donato as well as discussing Cayce's statements about Poseidia and its Temple of Records at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Halls-of-Atlantis/

posted 09-22-2003 10:29 PM            

Just 60 miles "beyond the pillars of Hercules" is a now submerged island.
It is a seamount 60 feet below sea level,
approximately 5 miles wide by 25 miles long.
It's location is approximately 7degrees 15 minutes West by 36 degrees 3 minutes North.
(at least one underwater archeologist plans to examine this seamount for signs of human occupation)

Before the rise of the ocean flooded this island,
it would have been just offshore of a vast plain, which is now the continental shelf of Spain & Portugal.
"All these and their descendants for many generations were the inhabitants and rulers of divers islands in the open sea; and also, as has been already said, they held sway in our direction over the country within the Pillars as far as Egypt and Tyrrhenia."
The other islands, Canaries to Bermuda, fit the description from Critias
quoted above.

This submerged island I give coordinates to; would have been a muddy reef for centuries after it's submergence.

"when afterwards sunk by an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud"- Critias

Conjecture that the inhabitants of this isle might have dug channels to obtain material to build seawalls, dikes,
to hold back the rising water level;
which were later also submerged, during a time of high seas.
A breach of dikes could fit Plato's description of the second catastrophe which he called the final sinking.

I have corresponded with Atlantis books' authors who agree that wherever it is,
Atlantis would have to be searched for below sea level.

The bimini roads would also have been above sea level 11,000 years ago.