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Massive underwater ruins could be evidence of Plato's lost Atlantis, researcher insists
Fox News Discovery ^ | 11/18/2025 | Andrea Margolis

Posted on 11/19/2025 6:09:36 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan

A team of independent researchers is claiming to have found Atlantis.

The research centers around stone structures on Spain's Salmedina Island, off Chipiona in the Gulf of Cádiz, west of the Strait of Gibraltar.

The ruins are spread across roughly 11.6 square miles of offshore seafloor and adjacent coastline, with some walls measuring 23 feet high and 6.5 feet thick.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: andreamargolis; archeology; atlantis; cadiz; catastrophism; chipiona; gibraltar; gulfofcadi; gulfofcadiz; history; pillarsofhercules; salmedinaisland; spain; spartel

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To: Jonty30

It would seem crazy to believe that the Pacific islands were inhabited 40k years ago by seafaring hunter gatherers but the mid-Atlantic ridge was NOT inhabited 15K years ago.


21 posted on 11/19/2025 8:18:27 AM PST by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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To: Vaduz

Disneyland and Disneyworld could both sink right now as far as I’m concerned. It ain’t what it used to be.


22 posted on 11/19/2025 8:20:28 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Eye of the Sahara!


23 posted on 11/19/2025 8:23:13 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: nitzy

Right, it doesn’t make much sense. If the ridge was above water someone would’ve gotten there. There is evidence that there were humans in North America 30k years ago.


24 posted on 11/19/2025 8:25:01 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: Jonty30

Did some reading and discovered that these islands are a part of the Mid Atlantic Ridge: Azores, Ascension, St. Helena, and Tristan da Cunha.


25 posted on 11/19/2025 8:40:08 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Yes


26 posted on 11/19/2025 10:58:11 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Atlantis was an allegory. Never existed, pure fiction. Everybody “researching” it is either a fool or a scam artist. Might as well look for R’lyeh.


27 posted on 11/19/2025 11:03:30 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: dfwgator

I don’t recall it being in Goodfellas.

I just remember Pesci saying “Oh n-”.


28 posted on 11/19/2025 11:50:51 AM PST by OKSooner (We are all mortal... But Jim and his website have made a significant difference in my life. RIP)
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To: OKSooner

It was the scene where they beat up Billy Batts.


29 posted on 11/19/2025 11:55:43 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Left and returned to Rota several times. Must have cruised right over them.


30 posted on 11/19/2025 1:19:16 PM PST by Az Joe (No matter how cynical you get, it's never enough to keep up.)
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To: dfwgator

Now I’m gonna have to go watch it again.


31 posted on 11/19/2025 1:23:30 PM PST by OKSooner (We are all mortal... But Jim and his website have made a significant difference in my life. RIP)
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To: logi_cal869

ok
https://maps.app.goo.gl/8ckJC9LtYJX1TchEA


32 posted on 11/19/2025 2:00:46 PM PST by FreepOnTheBorderlands (Hate is a Democratic party value)
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To: discostu

Quite possibly some truth, some fiction. New findings with modern technology uncovering many ancient buildings, structures, temples, etc., are happening more and more frequently. There could very well be an ancient place that sunk thousands of years ago that was advanced for the time, just as well Plato’s story could be pure fiction. Neither one has been proven. Yet.


33 posted on 11/19/2025 3:09:00 PM PST by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Anyone still named Plato?


34 posted on 11/19/2025 3:15:09 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

Never heard of anyone named Plato, but I have heard much stranger names, like “X”, or “Moonunit” or “Dweezil” and others.


35 posted on 11/19/2025 3:26:27 PM PST by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: Jonty30

It could be more than that because of eustasy/isostasy.

The earth isnt solid. Its just solid on the very surface and we are too small to be able to tell otherwise but the earth has various layers becoming far more liquid the further travel toward the center.

Just as on a waterbed additional weight creates pressure down in some areas which means the water moves elsewhere. Mountains across the surface are like a body pushing down in one spot. In a similar way the ice caps dont just remove water and therefor weight from the ocean, it also adds more weight and therefor pressure to the poles.

Like a pea being smashed between your fingers, the distance between the poles will begin to diminish as the sides bulge out due to the weight of the caps.

So its not just a matter of the water moving elsewhere bringing the water level down, its a matter of pressure moving from one place to another causing land that was previously under pressure to now rise.


36 posted on 11/19/2025 3:56:08 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: FreepOnTheBorderlands

smh

It figures. I brought up Google Earth first to look at the sea floor profile, and the island does not exist there.

Web search: Bupkis. I just didn’t have any more time to expend on it this morning.


37 posted on 11/19/2025 4:17:58 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Yeah, this was having the smell of the sea floor complex off of Cuba.

I just hate this clickbait crap. If a scientist makes a discovery, write a paper before leaking BS tidbits to the press.


38 posted on 11/19/2025 4:20:01 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Atlantis is in the Pegasus galaxy.
Everyone knows this...


39 posted on 11/19/2025 9:33:57 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: minnesota_bound

Except me.


40 posted on 11/20/2025 12:24:23 AM PST by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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