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THE MYSTERY OF ATLANTIS
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waters surrounding the American continents, none could be
more probable. It is easy to trace the east coast of the sunken
Atlantis along the line drawn from Florida to the Bahamas,
Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Antilles, Trinidad, and the north
coast of South America from the estuary of the Orinoco to that
of the Amazon. And now new discoveries made at the center of
this region offer indisputable proofs and final evidence that
Atlantis really existed.
It is possible that the actual rediscovery of Atlantis began in
1967, when Robert Brush, an American pilot and archaeologist,
flying at low altitude near Bimini in the Bahamas noticed a huge
rectangular form a few feet below the water. He photographed it
right away.
Now, the first law of the fundamental code of underwater archaeology
states that water and waves can create all lands of
strange forms from the sand or rocks on the bottom but never a
rectangle with four right angles. The second law states that any
such form invariably belongs to an ancient temple, usually surrounded
by smaller rectangles or circles, which were the habitats
of the priests, servants, or pilgrims.
Brush called in Dimitri Rebikoff, a professional diver and archaeologist,
who had spent twenty years in underwater archaeology
in the Mediterranean and was considered the most experienced
and quaHfied scientist in this category. He recognized the
importance of the discovery right away. He himself had photographed
from a plane an immense submerged rectangle 400 m
long off the Grand Bank of Bermuda, as well as other remnants
of human construction along a straight line or grouped in circles
in an area covering over 30 miles between Orange Cay and
Bimini in the Bahamas. Rebikoff in tinn asked Professor Manson
Valentine, who had discovered important Mayan ruins in Yucatan,
to join in an expedition to Bimini and the surrounding islands.
In August of 1968 this expedition discovered a 75-by-90-foot
temple of very great age off the coast of Andros, the largest island
in the Bahamas. But the most important discovery came on
September 2, 1968, when at the northwest extremity of North
Bimini, under only 15 feet of water, Valentine found a vast expanse
of pavement made of flat, rectangular and polygonal stone