Message #4953

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C. Berlitz                                                                                                 continued



Within this area there are several unusual blue holes - not caves in underwater limestone cliffs, but circular holes half a mile in diameter, going straight down to depths of 1000 feet although the sea bottom surrounding the holes is only several fathoms deep.  These holes in the ocean can be compared in shape to the cenotes.
the large open wells at Chichen Itza, into which Mayas used to throw jade, gold, and maidens as sacrifices to the gods.

It is in this very area that fishermen and pilots have given rise to a report of a large pyramid or pyramids off one of the Bahama Bank rising from the ocean floor. A huge pyramid to the southwest of the Cay Sal Bank was reported in 1977 as having appeared in outline on the depth finder of a boat during a deep-sea fishing trip.  Since then, a number of soundings and dives, with as yet inconclusive results, have been made on the same or similar pyramidal formations located in deep water within the area.  Eugene Shinn, a geologist with the United States Geological Survey, has been quoted in the press as declaring that a "pyramid" near Cay Sal is a natural formation, despite its pyramid-shaped profile.  Some divers claim they have noted divisions or regular cracks along the side of an underwater pyramid that would be explainable if the pyramid were composed of large stone blocks. 
The matter has been further complicated by the probability that there is more than one pyramidal formation in the general area, just as there are a number - probably
between fifty and sixty - of unexplained underwater stone walls, roads and circles throughout the Caribbean and the Bahamas area of the western Atlantic.