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[guru153]

Hi, I am new here.

Have you or anybody else here visited some of the submerged ruins in Bimini? In particular the Bimini road. An outfit in Bimini says there is even ancient pillars. I have heard :dazzler1: everything from the Atlantean ruins, to crates of Portland cement.

Has anybody visited this? Worth a dive?

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

Hey There and welcome to ScubaBoard.
I did a few dives in Bimini years ago, and we susposedily (sp) dived on the Lost Road To Atlantis. I do not remember any pillars, but do remember something that looked like an old road.
Bimini has been called a poormans dive destination. Not that it is a bad thing, its cheap to get there and the diving is pretty decent. I would go again.

 

[scubaculture]

Welcome to the board

 

[DandyDon]

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That "road" is certainly shallow enough that it was dry land during the last ice age, but people had not made it that far at that time, I do't think. If they had, they were not developed in budiling roads. It's a natural stone formation.

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[baitedstorm]

Sorry, can't help you out on that one , but I want to welcome you to the board just the same :fruit:

Cheers,
Vickie

 

[headhunter]

Welcome to ScubaBoard! :happywave

That sounds like a really cool place to visit, but I haven't been there. It looks like you are starting to get some answers though.

Don't forget to fill out your profile and dive info, so that we can add context to your future posts. Also, once we know where you are geographically from your profile, you may find that you'll have a whole bunch of new dive buddies to choose from locally.

Dive safe!

Christian

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[diversteve]

Hi, I am new here.

Have you or anybody else here visited some of the submerged ruins in Bimini? In particular the Bimini road. An outfit in Bimini says there is even ancient pillars. I have heard :dazzler1: everything from the Atlantean ruins, to crates of Portland cement.

Has anybody visited this? Worth a dive?

There was a TV special on cable about it a few years back. The speculation ranged from Atlantis to directional space signs to naturally occuring rock formations. I always watch u/w TV programs from a diver's perspective, they didn't look like a terribly great dive, they're in pretty shallow water.

One interesting thing is that to find some of them, this group used Satellite GPS imaging, you could clearly see the shapes in the water since they're pretty shallow. So I doubt it's Portland Cement, that's a lot of cement...There's other good diving on Bimini also so it wouldn't be a wasted trip if they're not that exciting. See Bill & Nowdla O'Keefe's Bimini Undersea (www.biminiundersea.com) for some options.

 

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