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    Underwater City off Cuba's coast

    Underwater Cities; Noah's Flood Proof? ... Page 1

    "It is stunning. What we see in our high-resolution sonar images are limitless, rolling, white sand plains and, in the middle of this beautiful white sand, there are clear manmade large-size architectural designs.

    It looks like when you fly over an urban development in a plane and you see highways, tunnels and buildings," Zelitsky said.

    Evidence of ancient city found in depths off Cuba 1/2 Mile Down

    By Michael Posner. The Globe and Mail. Montreal, Canada. December 7, 2001.

    A team of Canadian and Cuban researchers have discovered the remains of what may be a 6,000-year-old city submerged in deep ocean waters off the western coast of Cuba.

    Using sophisticated sonar and videotape equipment, offshore engineer Paulina Zelitsky, her husband, Paul Weinzweig, and her son, Ernesto Tapanes, have found megaliths "of a kind you'd find at Stonehenge or Easter Island," Mr. Weinzweig said in an interview yesterday.



    "Some structures within the complex may be as long as 400 metres wide and as high as 40 metres," he said. "Some are sitting on top of each other. They show very distinct shapes and symmetrical designs of a non-natural kind. We've shown them to scientists in Cuba, the U.S. and elsewhere, and nobody has suggested they are natural."

    Moreover, an anthropologist affiliated with the Cuban Academy of Sciences has said that still photos taken from the videotape clearly show "symbols and inscriptions," Mr. Weinzweig said. It is not yet known in what language the inscriptions are written.

    The sonar images, he added, bear a remarkable resemblance to the pyramidal design of Mayan and Aztec temples in Mexico. Mr. Weinzweig said it is too early to draw firm conclusions from the evidence collected so far.

    The research team plans another foray to the site -- off the Guanahacabibes Peninsula on Cuba's western tip -- next month. Next summer, it hopes to return again, this time with the first deep-water mobile excavator, equipped with functions needed for on-site archeological evaluation, including the ability to blow sand off stone.


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    Geologists have recently hypothesized that a land bridge once connected Cuba to Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. And portions of the Cuban island are believed to have been submerged in the sea on three separate occasions in the distant past.

    The structures are on a plateau that forms the bottom of what is thought to be a mud volcano, 650 to 700 metres beneath the surface of the ocean and along what is clearly a geological fault line. "It's well known that ancient civilizations liked to build at the base of volcanoes, because the land is fertile. So that's suggestive," Mr. Weinzweig said.

    One tantalizing possibility, entirely speculative for now, is that if the legendary sunken continent of Atlantis is ever proven to have existed, these structures may have been submerged during the same cataclysm.

    Mr. Weinzweig simply says that more information is needed. "We'd prefer to stay away from that subject. This is something of great potential scientific interest, but it must involve serious authorities on ancient civilizations."

    The precise age of the underwater site is also unknown, although Cuban archeologists in 1966 excavated a land-based megalithic structure on the western coast, close to the new underwater discovery, said to date from 4000 BC.

    "Based on that and other geological information, we're speculating that these are 6,000 years old," he explained. "It's not exact, but they're very ancient."

    If that dating estimate proves accurate, it would mean that an ancient civilization had designed and erected these vast stone structures in the Americas only 500 years after human settlements first became organized in cities and states.

    They would also have been built long before the wheel was invented in Sumeria (3500 BC), or the sundial in Egypt (3000 BC). The three pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau are thought to have been constructed between 2900 and 2200 BC.

    The couple's Havana-based company, Advanced Digital Communications, discovered the site in July of 2000, using side-scan sonar equipment to view what resembled an underwater city, complete with roads, buildings and pyramids.

    The team returned this past summer with a 1.3-tonne, unmanned Remotely Operated Vehicle, controlled from the mother ship via fibre-optic cable. Its cameras confirmed the earlier findings, showing vast granite-like blocks, between two and five metres in length, that were cut in perpendicular and circular designs.

    But because of technical problems, Mr. Weinzweig said, "we were only able to survey the perimeter of the site.


    Based on initial explorations, we think it's much larger than even our sonar projections show. It may extend for several kilometres."

    In addition to the archeological site, ADC has been exploring what Mr. Weinzweig calls "the richest underwater cemetery in the world" for sunken Spanish galleons. Hundreds of treasure-bearing ships are said to lie around the island, several hundred to several thousand metres deep.

    Last year, off Havana Bay, it found the remains of USS Maine, the battleship that blew up in 1898. That incident, never entirely explained, killed 260 sailors and precipitated the Spanish-American War.

    Copyright © 2001 Globe Interactive, a division of Bell Globemedia Publishing Inc.



    Earlier this year, using a submersible, they were able to obtain samples of the underwater objects. "The stone we recovered from ocean bottom is very polished granite. All of the peninsula of northwast part of Cuba, all of this peninsula is limestone, very fractured limestone. So, geologically, it (megalithic granite structures) is totally foreign to Cuba. But it's also not known in Yucatan because Yucatan is also limestone, not granite..."

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    that is some cool sh-it

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    Is this for real?

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    uh huh

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    pretty cool bro

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    Ive done rescue training out there ive seen some cool sh*t there. I hope they find out more.


    challenge me and i will succeed

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    That's awesome almost like finding a new world like Columbus did

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    Quote Originally Posted by StupensityX
    That's awesome almost like finding a new world like Columbus did
    Comlumbus merely landed on a place already inhabited by millions of native americans. It cannot be said that he found anything. Stupensity

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    Quote Originally Posted by aXe
    Comlumbus merely landed on a place already inhabited by millions of native americans. It cannot be said that he found anything. Stupensity
    It was a new world to him zippy now go and blow your boyfriend dude grownups are talking

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ybear

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    Whats my real name?.

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    Heck that covers at least 50% doesn't it????

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOUNCER
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    cool discovery........i heard colombus died in prison for being a mass murderer. can't beleive we gave him a holiday.....two thumbs up US!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BARLOW
    Underwater Cities; Noah's Flood Proof?
    I don't see the connection between this and the Bible.

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    awsome

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    thats some cool stuff, I wonder how many other "cities" there are hidden underwater besides this one?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOUNCER
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    ooh ooh i know

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carlos_E
    I don't see the connection between this and the Bible.
    i dont really either...... but I'm guessing it might be saying proof of the great flood.......

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