[Renfield]

Many good photos and diagrams are at the original site. It's a .pdf file so I can't post any pictures here. The author makes a strong argument that a harbor facility, similar to those made by the ancient Phoenicians, was constructed along the coast of Bimini sometime prior to 5000BC!

[Renfield]

Ping.

(Blam—I couldn’t find a free pdf-to-Word converter, so I can’t post the whole article or photos. Sorry.)

[Duke Nukum]

However, an inspection of the site shows that the skeptics’ most important claims about the formation are inaccurate.

Skeptics don't need real evidence because they already know what all the answers are supposed to be.

All they have to do is hear someone suggest something like Atlantis and they automatically know that it is a natural formation because Atlantis couldn't have existed.

Just like astronomers used to know with certainty that rocks didn't fall from the sky because there are no rocks in the sky. So anyone who claimed to see a rock fall from the sky was obviously a liar or crazy.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield! Read this yesterday while following the links within that page you'd already sent the link for, and tried to do the conversion. That online converter at the Adobe website, well, it kinda does nothing but run a gif animation claiming that the file is being processed.

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[Jack Hammer]

Reminds me of a program I saw on the History Channel about a similar formation near Okinawa or someplace like that; anyone else see that/recall that/have any information about that? Someone on the show was claiming it’s evidence of an ancient civilization, while someone else was claiming it’s just a natural - if unusual - geological formation.

[Squidpup]

So this is the truth about a hoax about a hoax?

[gleeaikin]

I don’t know how many will read the long article, I got to page 20 before my significant other begged to let him look at the latest stock market figures.

At any rate, it reports about two separate sets of phenomena. One the old known “Bimini Road” which I think is at least 20 feet under water, and the other more recently discover artifact which is only about 8 feet under water, which the article suggest could represent a more recent period of time.

The author presents numerous comparisons with finds at the shallower level which correspond to Mediterranean artifacts for harbors with Roman, Phoenecian, and related ancient peoples. These include anchor stones, and off shore harborages for quick visits.

Then they report things this expedition found on the “older sites” when they explored a difficult area which was covered with vegetation, and sharks. They opined that the earlier reporters may have avoided that site. There they discovered stones stacked on stones, with the ones on the top the most eroded, and also resting on large foundation blocs if you brushed away a little sand.

I am less than a quarter of the way through the article and am going back to see what else they say.

[ameribbean expat]

These people are considering the Bimini Road to be an isolated occurence. Bimini has many things to suggest it was a site of some significance in the past, not the least of which are the shark mound (which lines up on a perfect north-south and east-west axis), seahorse mound and cat mound, all of which are visible from the air but difficult to reach because they lie in a nearly impassable mangrove swamp. Throw in the “Healing Hole” which is a tidal pool in the middle of a mangrove swamp on North Bimini that fills up with mineral-laden (lithium and sulfur)fresh water on the outgoing tide and it gets interesting.

Bimini has only been inhabited for the last 150 years by modern man, but there is much evidence that the two islands have played a much more significant role in human history than we are aware.