Map of Bimini
showing the area of the road
Overview of the Bimini Search
The Bimini Road consists of rows of stone blocks about a half-mile from Paradise Point in
North Bimini. The longest row is about 1600 feet long. It has a J-shaped turn on one end.
The blocks vary considerably in size and shape.
“And Poseidia will be among the first portions of Atlantis to rise again. Expect it in sixty-
eight or sixty-nine [1968 or 1969].” (1940 Reading 958-3)
* In 1957 Joe Gouveia (an A.R.E. member and pilot) searched around Bimini and reported
finding columns and blocks.
. * A team member of the 1957 expedition (Dr. William Bell) found a vertical column rising
from the seafloor. He also found several stone slabs and a gear-like structure. David Zink’s
book, The Stones of Atlantis, published some of these pictures.
. * In 1968 pilots Trigg Adams and Robert Brush spotted what appeared to be a building
structure near Andros Island.
* Later in 1968, biologist J. Manson Valentine and Dimitri Rebikoff, discovered the “Bimini
Road.” Valentine also reported that he found over 30 other sites with structures that
appeared to be manmade.
* Valentine, Rebikoff. Adams, and Brush formed the Marine Archaeology Research Society
(MARS) and tried to obtain permission to excavate the road.
* The owners of the shore at the “road site” were given control of the “road” and excluded
the MARS team from having access to it.
* Numerous other amateurs visited and made wild claims.
* In 1971, an article in Nature by the Virginia Beach-based Geologist Wyman Harrison
reported that the “road” was natural beach rock.
* In the early 1970s, a team (SEAS Scientific Exploration and Archaeology Society) led
by geologist John Gifford discovered another site called “Proctor’s Road” consisting of
clumps of stone at intervals running in a straight line for a mile.
* In 1974, Dr. David Zink (an English professor at Lamar University) met J. Manson Valen-
tine at Bimini and performed the first full survey at the Bimini Road.
* In Zink’s “Poseidia ‘75” expedition he assembled a dozen divers, archaeologists, and geo-
logists to study the road. Zink concluded that, rather than a road, the site was a mega-
lithic site. A 300-pound marble “head” sculpture was found along with a grooved building
block.
* In 1976, Zink’s “Poseidia ‘76” expedition included zoologist Dr. Doug Richards. The Bimini
Road was more accurately surveyed and mapped and magnetic anomalies were found.
* In 1977, the marble “head” was raised and a coring of the rocks was made. The results
of the coring were inconclusive. The head may—or may not—have been a carving.
* In 1980, geologist Eugene Shinn and archaeologist Marshall McKusick published a report
in Nature that the road was beach rock.
* In 1984, armed with satellite photos from Landsat 4, an A.R.E. team including Doug
Richards, Marty Obando, and others were able to view possible sites from a plane. Sub-
sequent on-site investigations from a boat were disappointing. A land excursion was also
made with nothing of relative importance found.
* In 1989 an A.R.E. group led by Joan Hanley discovered a sand-formed “shark mound” in
the middle of mangrove swamps on Bimini. The 500-foot long mound has yet to be exca-
vated or professionally examined. Raymond Leigh had an infrared photo of the mound taken.
* In 1996 Doug Richards and Joan Hanley led an A.R.E. expedition to Bimini funded by Don
Dickinson and the Law of One Foundation. Side sonar scanning was done in several areas
around Bimini. A host of rectangular and anomalous features were found in deeper water.
Dive time to inspect the anomalies was limited because of the depths. However, several
members believed the features to be manmade.
* In 2002 the A.R.E. completed a 630 sq. km IKONOS satellite imaging project of the
Bimini area.
* In March 2003, Greg and Lora Little flew over the largest circle found in the Bimini
satellite project and obtained high resolution digital video the circle. Computer analysis
revealed that the circle showed unusual characteristics.
* In April 2003 Greg and Lora Little visited several of the Bimini circles discovering that
the smaller ones appeared to have been made by a "cookie cutter." These smaller circles
had well-defined walls and a bottom with inner walls two to three-feet deep. The large
circle was actually raised off the sea bottom about three feet with a well-defined outer
wall.
Note: information above comes from Mysteries of Atlantis Revisited by Edgar Evans Cayce,
Gail Cayce Schwartzer, and Douglas G. Richards. Other information and photos come from
the A.R.E. bimonthly magazine, Venture Inward. All photos and text © by the A.R.E. or the
authors. Reproduction is prohibited.
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