What Is The Mysterious Sunken “Bimini Road” And Where Does It Lead? (2024)

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Is the Bimini Road man made or natural? ›

Strasser of the Department of Geology and Paleontology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. After either inspecting or studying the Bimini Road, they all concluded that it consists of naturally jointed beachrock.

Port Royal is located at the vulnerable end of the Palisadoes spit which is formed as loose sand and gravel from rivers in the Blue Mountains is deposited into the Caribbean Sea.

Bimini Road/The Lost City of Atlantis

Located in waters west of the bluff of North Bimini are beautiful square blocks and perfectly straight alignments of stones referred to as The Bimini Road. Fifteen hundred feet long, these stones lie in an orderly row.

Some 6 meters (20 feet) below the water's surface off the North Bimini coast in the Bahamas sits a surprising geological structure that looks remarkably like an ancient 457-meter-long (1,500 feet) cobbled road.

The blocky, paved look that makes the road so mysterious is due to the fracturing of natural rock joints having broken into rectangular, polygon-shaped, and irregularly shaped rocks that come together to create a mosaic of stone which looks almost as if it was created by a master stone mason.

Resorts World Bimini is owned by The Genting Group, the world's largest Destination Resort Group (www.genting.com), a global company founded in 1965, operating destination resorts in Malaysia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, The Bahamas, Las Vegas and New York.

Bimini Road is an underwater road of limestone blocks near North Bimini Island, Bahamas, which some believe to be the lost city of Atlantis. According to Greek Legend, somewhere around 11,000 years ago, the entirety of Atlantis sank into the ocean.

Located high on the upper slopes of the Atlantis seamount massif, the complex of white mineral chimneys rises 4,300 metres from the bottom but still 750 metres below the surface. The 30 chimneys, collectively known as the Lost City, extend across an area of 500 m2 and come in many shapes and sizes.

One of the most famous of these lost metropolises, Atlantis, cropped up in conversation thanks to Plato, who claimed that the city had dropped beneath the waves millennia before he even wrote about it.

Finally, one of the most recent theories places Atlantis off of Spain's southern coast. In 2011, American researchers found underwater ruins near Cadiz, Spain, ruins they believed to be flattened by tsunamis thousands of years ago.

Where is the secret location of Atlantis? ›

While Plato's story explicitly locates Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules, location hypotheses include Helike, Thera, Troy, and the North Pole.

Or, more importantly: Did it even exist? The short answer to both: No. All available evidence indicates that the philosopher Plato, sometime around 360 B.C., invented the island nation in order to illustrate a point about the dangers of aggressive imperialism. In Plato's telling, Atlantis was no utopia.

Safety. Bimini is much safer than Nassau as far as crime, but still be a little careful. Bimini is a shark hotspot: NEVER swim at Big Game Marina, which is home to a large group of hungry bull sharks which are known to take bites out of people who get in the way of their search for fish scraps.

Back in 1968, a team of three underwater archaeologists – Joseph Manson Valentine, Jacques Mayol – came upon a series of limestone blocks laid out in a linear pattern, resembling a paved road. Later, this formation was named as Bimini Road.

The best dive sites are found in the south and there is something to suit every skill level. The Bimini Wall, also known as the Bimini Road, plunges 4,000 feet beneath the waves. Perfectly cut steps underwater are believed to be remnants of the road to long-lost city of Atlantis.

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It was generally believed that the Bahamas were formed approximately 200 million years ago, when Pangaea started to break apart. In current times, it endures as an archipelago containing over 700 islands and cays, fringed around different coral reefs.

Over the years, Bimini has developed into a famed destination for travellers from around the world. Pulitzer prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway found his way here in 1935, and was so enthralled with Bimini, he supposedly used it as the inspiration for his classics "The Old Man & the Sea" and "Islands in the Stream".

Seawater is extracted from wells and desalinated using state-of-the-art reverse osmosis technology. Fresh drinking water is pumped into a large storage reservoir and distributed to the resort through a pipe network which Consolidated Water also owns and operates.