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Cuban Underwater City



Over the past few decades, amazing stories of underwater archaeology have made their way to mainstream media. We hear of a vast underground river system in Mayan Mexico, excavations at India’s Dwarka and Roman shipwrecks near the Greek Island of Naxos.

The underwater city near cuba is not the first underwater city to be discovered Actually, there have been quite a few underwater cities that have been discovered in recent years. The discovery of the legendary ancient city of Dwarka in the gulf of Cambay is certainly one of those incredible discoveries. Underwater pyramids were discovered by two scientists, Paul Weinzweig and Pauline Zalitzki, off the coast of Cuba. These two found the ruins of ancient buildings for about a mile below the sea, and pondered the possibility that it might be the lost city Atlantis.

One report in particular interested me in visiting Cuba. In 2001, a Canadian couple searching for wrecks on behalf of the Cuban government came across a group of strange geometric shapes on the ocean floor. This is the sea near the Guanahacbibes Peninsula and roughly in the strait between Cuba and Mexico. Pauline Zalitzki, a marine engineer, and her husband Dr. Paul Weinzweig found the sonar returns to be highly unusual. Rising abruptly from an underwater plain, they resemble an ancient city!

Cuban Underwater City Facts

Says Zalitzki, “It’s a really wonderful structure which really looks like it could have been a large urban center. However, it would be totally irresponsible to say what it was before we have evidence.” (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1697038.stm)

When the story broke in the early 2000s, there was speculation that this was Atlantis but the half mile depth of the site is problematic. It’s far too deep for diver investigation and as far as the “experts” are concerned, it would have taken 50,000 years or more for the “ruins” to be that deep underwater!

Plato places the existence of Atlantis closer to 10,000 BC – a 40,000 year discrepancy!

This is not the first time underwater “Atlantean sites” have been found in this part of the world. There is much controversy over the Bimini road and other “ruins”:

Cuban geologist Manuel Iturralde-Vinent of the National Museum of Natural History in Havana has studied the sonar images. According to this circa 2012 video posted by Iturralde-Vinent, many of the features could be natural but there is at least one “flat plate” he finds confounding:

Here is what Iturralde-Vinent says in the Youtube comment section of another video circa 2012:

“What we actually found? Unusual images of submarine structures in the side scan sonar record. I examined offshore side scan sonar images of the US, Puerto Rico and Virgin island but found nothing similar… Is true that some of these blocks, of about 1 cubic meter size, have the pyramid, cubic and similar shapes, and sometimes can be aligned in a row. Are these ancient walls? We do not know… The most intriguing and shocking finding, indeed, is a square plate of grey color, about 1 cm thick, and about 12 inches side, protruding from a rocky wall, in one scarp, at several hundred meters deep. Unfortunately, the element was not sampled, but excellent images are available in video which I will post in the future. But now I have not idea what it is this “grey plate” or how it found it way to its present location. But the true is that this element do not look like something “natural”. Its nature remains unsolved… These are the facts. The question of what are these features at the sea depths remains open, and will require further investigations, very expensive because of the water depth and the equipment required. We can argue on its origin in one or other direction, but this mystery can only be resolved by an appropriate research.” (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re_S_R40Wa4).

Many Questions

I don’t know if the features are Atlantean but if they are a “large urban center” many questions arise. For example:

  • Could civilization be much older than we think?
  • Could there be an ancient and unknown civilization in the West Indies?

Only 90 miles from Key West Florida, Cuba has a tumultuous history but also a paranormal past. The entire area of the West Indies and the Bermuda Triangle seem to be a hot spot for anomalous activity. Since childhood, I have heard stories of ships and planes disappearing, magnetic compasses spinning out of control, portals to other realities and UFOs buzzing the tropical airspace.

Deceased leader Fidel Castro reports seeing UFOs during the Cuban revolution:

“There we were, in the middle of the night, with our rifles on our knees. Then we suddenly saw a light darting among the stars. The light approached the group of commanders and poured over us like a bucket. It was round and enormous. The countryside and the mountains became illuminated as though it was daylight”. -Fidel Castro
(from an interview Castro gave to researcher Jose Luis Gil. Castro could not give an exact date – the sighting occurred sometime in the 1950s).

And it’s not just the socialists either! Many US service men have reported bizarre stories of UFOs (or Underwater Submersible Objects, USOs in this case) leaving and entering the waters near Guantanamo Bay (for example, see http://www.openminds.tv/former-marine-describes-base-ufo-activity/36539).

  • Could there be an underwater UFO base near Cuba?
  • Who are the UFO/USO pilots?

Cryptozoologist Ivan Sanderson asked similar questions over 40 years ago. (See “Invisible Residents: The Reality of Underwater UFOs”. Originally published in 1971). He considered the possibility that USOs and UFOs might be from the oceans of our world.

Cuban Underwater City

Regarding the nearly half-mile deep Zalitzki “mega” site, oceanography professor Robert Ballard has commented, “that’s too deep, I would be surprised if it were human” (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_underwater_city).

Could the site be non-human ruins?

It makes me think of the James Cameron sci-fi film, The Abyss, where oil rig workers assist Navy Seals in a nuclear sub recovery operation and run into “aliens” under the sea.

Or maybe, the “non-humans” are something Lovecraftian (more on that later!).

More Surprises

According to “restoration architect, architectural historian and historical archaeologist”, Jes Alexander (see http://jesalexander.wix.com/jesalexander#!), the brother of Ernest Hemingway once spotted an Atlantis-like city of marble “glistening” underwater:

“In 1954, Ernest Hemingway’s brother, Leicester, was on his way from the US to Havana, to meet with his brother, the renowned author and war correspondent. At one point, Leicester Hemingway was looking out the airplane window, and claims to have seen, “A city of glistening marble,” below the sea. He then spent the next 40 years of his life trying to find it, again. He never did, but for the latter part of his life, Leicester Hemingway was obsessed with the story of Atlantis.”
-Jes Alexander
(see https://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-popova/abstracting-atlantis-scie_b_589049.html).

Using Google Earth, Jes Alexander says his team think they have also spotted an underwater city in the Western Caribbean! Jes explains, “this has nothing to do with another site, found almost 10 years ago by a Canadian/Russian team working to map the sea floor near the Yucatan Peninsula. Their site is nearly 2 miles below the sea floor…”(editors note: the correct figure is actually 600-750 meters or approximately just under a half mile deep). “…The site we are working with is much shallower – in between 40 and 70 feet of water” (ibid).

Cuban Underwater Formation

Famed alternative researcher and explorer, Andrew Collins is skeptical. After carefully examining the google images provided by Alexander and company, Collin’s colleague Rodney Hale says, “if the images were taken from an orbiting satellite, you would not get the perspective effect from that height.” (see http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/city.htm)

Cuban underwater city sonar

Collins believes that Cuba might be the ancient location of Atlantis but is careful when it comes to claims of underwater cities. Much of his research is outlined in his fascinating book, “Atlantis in the Caribbean” (an expanded version of his older book Gateway to Atlantis). Such ideas are intriguing and Collin’s work leads me to wonder:

  • Who were the original Cubans?
  • Was Collin’s Atlantis or the island seeded or guided by an older, now “hidden” civilization?

I also wondered if there might be a connection between the ancient Maya and Cuba. The channel between Cuba and the Mexican Yucatan is less than 130 miles.

The Yucatan Channel (from Wikipedia)

Over the past few years, I traveled to Cuba multiple times (and visited the Yucatan – see the Mayan Coastline Post) to investigate the various mysteries. Lacking the deep sea submarines, sonar equipment and trained personnel, I was unable to confirm the existence of an underwater city but what I encountered was remarkable just the same.

Cuban Underwater Structures

-Andrew J Brown

Cuban Underwater City Images

(To be continued in Part 2).

Structure Cuban Underwater City

The Claim
There’s an ancient city 2000 feet underwater off the coast of Cuba Vx2235wm driver windows 7 installer.

The site remained unknown until 2001 when a marine engineer, Pauline Zalitzki and her husband were working on a survey mission along side the Cuban government off the tip of Guanahacabibes Peninsula in the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba.

The they were scanning the seabed using advanced sonar to try and detect any deep water ship wrecks, and scanned an area of 2 square kilometres. Upon noticing a series of symmetrical shapes that appeared un-natural, they enhanced the image and the above picture turned out.

Later that year they returned with geologist Manuel Iturralde, a senior researcher of Cuba’s Natural History Museum, along with a remotely operated submersible vehicle to take pictures of the structure. It returned a series of images of granite stone that appears to have been carved by hand.

The blocks measured between 8 and 10 feet long, with some of them being stacked on top one another and some standing alone. Since then no more expeditions have taken place to the site, mostly because its spread across an area between 2000 and 2460 feet deep, making it unreachable from diving and very expensive in a submarine.

The biggest question surrounding this is that it couldn’t have been built by humans, the reason being that the area was underwater well before modern humans were thought to have existed.

A marine geologist studying the case claimed it would have taken at least 50,000 years for a structure to sink so low underwater. Due to its position it seems it always was underwater as this area of land is thought to have been in the ice age 50,000 years ago, and although the sea levels are thought to have been lower, around 300 feet, its still a massive distance off the depth of the city.

Unfortunately no one has conducted any major investigations into the site since its discovery, but due to its depth this make things very expensive and for nothing more than the promise that there “might” be something down there.

This also means that no one knows absolutely nothing about it, other than it contains granite blocks and has always been underwater, prompting many people to suggest that yet again, aliens have built something on our planet, but given the location and age of this one it seems they might be onto something with this one.