[ApplegateRanch]

However, Akkaya seemed to argue against exploring the site. “It is a dark place. There is nothing to be seen or to be shown to the public. If there had been anything to see I, myself, would have had a search. There is nothing more than pure mud down there.”

"There is nothing to see; else, I would have looked," is one of the most breathtakingly ignorant statements I have ever heard emerge from a scientist's mouth.

Maybe that 'dark place' will be illuminated when the Light Of The World returns...except then, we won't care.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I read it that way as well.