Message #33214

[Desiree]

Hi Paul,

Yes = Dr. Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist and his colleagues.  He was interviewed by Graham Hancock in Underworld, and he has been at the forefront of every news article on Yonaguni.   Here's the latest video clip of him and the ruins:
http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=64604

Thanks for the clip, I will look him up and see if I can find any of his reports.

If you have The Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited you'll notice that it is co-written by Dr. Doug Richards, and the section on Bimini describes some of the activites of Gaea Project led by Dr. Joan Hanley. Dr. Richards also wrote a chapter in the Littles' 2003 book The A.R.E.'s Search for Atlantis   and he dove with Dr. David Zink in the Poseidia expeditions as early as 1976.  Some of this work was in the TV documentary series "In Search Of" hosted by Leonard Nimoy such as "In Search of Atlantis" and "In Search of the Bimini Wall", and a number of other documentaries in the 80s and 90s. 

Unfortunately, the website for Gaea Project went down years ago and Joan never put it back up.  She did very expensive and intense exploration work near Bimini in 1998 and no one knows what the results were.  She didn't share with TAO/APEX, and her reports could not be located at the A.R.E. though she claims to have submitted them.  It's very strange.  Sometimes people don't want their finds to "get away from them."

Thanks, is the Hanley stuff anywhere else on the web?

The story does have suspicious details, but I also can't find a motive for deception.  Where's the payoff?  And why in interviews was he confident that it would be found soon and willing to point out the area on a map?  Nearly everyone thinks that the Berry's region is a likely place to find ruins for a settlement.  However, it's also where AUTEC has had their test ranges, and I used to think that they might be squatting on the ruins (Brown's site) there especially after this report:
http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue18/18bermuda.html

Well, where is the motive for other deceptions, like Aaron Duvall?  Check this guy out:

I'VE FOUND ATLANTIS !!
THIS IS NO JOKE!
I HAVE FOUND ATLANTIS AND AM WILLINGTO SHOW THE LOCATION
OF THE "CITY OF ATLANTIS" TO THEFIRST PERSON OR PERSONS
THAT PRODUCE A FREE GRANT OF
$8,000,000. U.S.
FOR A GUIDED THREE DAY AND THREE NIGHTS ROYAL TOUR OF THE
CITY OF ATLANTIS!
FOR THIS YOU GET T O SEE THE ONCE LOSTCITY WITH ALL
OF IT'S GLORY AND IT'S TEMPLE.
THIS IS THE SAME ATLANTIS THAT PLATOTHE GREEK PHILOSOPHER
SPOKE OF IN 400 B.C.
OVER 24,000 BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTENON THE SUBJECT, SCHOLARS
HAVE ARGUED ABOUT THIS TOPIC EVER SINCE,MANY HAVE SEARCHED AND NOW
I OFFER TO YOU A SITE NOT SEEN BY ANYMODERN DAY MAN,
EXCEPT ME. ; RESEARCHER, EXPLORER,AND DISCOVERER OF
THE ONCE "LOST CITY OF ATLANTIS,"
Mr. JERRY D. QUERRARD.

There are a lot of people out to make money off of all this out there.

Desiree