Atlantis, we shall see...

[rmediver2002]

This could be interesting to follow:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/14/cyprus.atlantis.ap/index.html

[sarc88]

I think that's like my ol lady who's constantly re-discovering her virginity!! I have to dedicate 2 years of my life and expensive equipment to locate it....every time.

[Sigi]

Lost cities?

I thought that was all just a 'diver equipment manufacturer' Ponzi scheme.

[dvpj]

It has been more than ten years ago now; my old employer got suckered into a search/survey job looking for Atlantis. My dive partner and I were the navigators on the job. The perks were great, we were working on a beautiful yacht in a beautiful climate. But, after days of mobilization and more days of equipment testing and navigation calibration (this was way before GPS) we still had no client supplied datum to begin operations from.

We were told the holder of the information was on her way, and when she was ready she would supply the information.
Several hours after their planned departure the person with datum arrived.
As the leading nav guy my partner was anxious to begin to construct the survey plan and get things started.

Imagine; several hundred thousand dollars of survey gear, sophisticated navigation, sonar, and u/w video equipment, five of the best looking deep sea surveyors in the biz, and all of us (sucking down suds and soaking up rays) ready to get to work. But, none of us had yet to see datum information.

Our marketing guy was on a bender trying to get the company some hard needed positive PR. So judgement was slipping.

So, there we were...waiting, and still soaking up the rays. She kind of waddles down the quay to the ship, and is wearing a brightly colored flower print red and green mu-mu, and has that long unkempt wild hair thing going on...and about 60-100 pounds over weight. Got the picture?

To our dismay she is not carrying a briefcase, chart tube, or anything that looks as though it may hold documents. I thought she was selling food, tours, or something. But, she does have a large squarish cardboard box in her flabby round arms.

She is welcomed aboard, the two men (clients) that were the money behind the job introduce us all, and she asks to be lead to the room with equipment in it.

Of course we follow.

When she gets in the room she puts the box on a tool bench and opens it to pull out a purple velvet looking bag with a round object in it. From the bag she then removes a huge crystal looking bowl, a real beaut! Kind of like half one of those Jap fishing float looking things. Then, she begins to hum, and puts the bowl on the deck gets on her round knees and while humming bends at the sort of like waist she has and puts her whole fat hairy head into the bowl and now begins to chant in some wacky sounding language...so loud its almost a scream or shout.

We almost died...I was laughing so hard I lost my breath and nearly passed out.

Needless to say...we never found the Lost City...But the boat ride was great, and so was the per-diem!