Paulina Zelitsky arrested and detained in Mexico in 2009
Ancient Aliens diagram of underwater city discovered near Cuba
In season two of History Channel’s Ancient Aliens the episode ‘Underwater Worlds’ which delved into the fascinating mystery of ‘ancient monuments’ and ‘lost cities submerged for thousands of years’ beneath the sea. One of the mysterious cities, the underwater ruins discovered in 2000 off the coast of Cuba by Soviet-born Canadian ocean engineer Paulina Zelitsky and her British Columbia-based Advanced Digital Communications. Zelitsky’s company hired by Fidel Castro to search Cuba territory seas for sunken treasure estimated to be worth $3 trillion. Instead, Zelitsky discovered what could be rock solid proof of an ancient civilization who built a city out of immense granite stone. The nearest location of similar stone, in central Mexico, nearby Cuba, composed of limestone. An ancient civilization whose city may have been covered by water from the last Ice Age. Another theory, earthquakes and the location of the city near a volcano, caused the city and the surrounding land to sink beneath the waves.
‘What we’re looking at is a time when mainstream archeologists tell us there were no cities anywhere in the world.’
Graham Hancock, author, Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilizations, Ancient Aliens
After watching the rerun of the episode which recently aired, we decided to search for the latest info on the underwater city. Based on the latest info, the observation the underwater city discovered off the coast of Cuba in 2000 may end up in a future Book Of The Damned.. A curious ‘oddity’ in a book about the unexplained.
One of the mysteries, the National Geographic article published in 2002, New Underwater Finds Raise Questions About Flood Myths.
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Many scientists, historians and archaeologists view these enduring tales as short, dramatised versions of the memory of rising seas at the end of the Ice Age. Like all good stories, they are rich with local drama, religious legends, and moral principles.
While images of catastrophic floods are popular, many scholars argue that the real rising sea level slowly invaded the Stone Age hunting territories for thousands of years, and the stories compress this event into overnight floods, storms, and destruction.
Recent undersea findings may yield new clues to the study of human habitations that now lie beneath the waves.
What’s important to note, the ‘many scientists, historians, and archeologists’ stuck on the Stone Age timeline of events. Rather curious, the paragraph titled ‘Cuba’s Sunken City’, a paragraph which contained the debate of whether the ‘unusual formations of smooth blocks, crests, and geometric shapes’ were a product of an ancient underwater city or a natural process. In the article a reference to mainstream scientists who fear the ‘temptation’ of the uniformed to link the discovery to the mythical Atlantis. For a fun read on Atlantis and Dr. Heinrich Schliemann, the archeologist who discovered the ancient city of Troy, and Atlantis ties to Mexico, follow this link.
One of the best examples of a discovery which should have changed the mainstream scientist timeline of ancient civilizations, the true age of the Spinx.
Photo of Zelitsky’s underwater pyramid in Cuba
On May 14, 2001, Reuters reported Soviet-born Canadian ocean engineer Paulina Zelitsky, from British Columbia-based Advanced Digital Communications, may have discovered a lost city off of Cuba. Zeltisky and her firm had been hired by Castro to search for an estimated $3 trillion in sunken treasure, booty from ships which sunk in the waters near Cuba from the 1600′s to the 20th century. According to Reuters, Zeltisky and her crew made the underwater city discovery in July of 2000.
Most intriguingly, researchers using sonar equipment have discovered, at a depth of about 2,200 feet, a huge land plateau with clear images of what appears to be urban development partly covered by sand. From above, the shapes resemble pyramids, roads and buildings.
ADC is excited but reluctant to speculate until a joint investigation with the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Geographic (news – web sites) Society takes place early this summer.
It is stunning. What we see in our high-resolution sonar images are limitless, rolling, white sand plains and, in the middle of this beautiful white sand, there are clear manmade large-size architectural designs. It looks like when you fly over an urban development in a plane and you see highways, tunnels and buildings,” Zelitsky said.
We don’t know what it is and we don’t have the videotaped evidence of this yet, but we do not believe that nature is capable of producing planned symmetrical architecture, unless it is a miracle,” she added in an interview at her office at Tarara, along the coast east of Havana.
ADC’s deep-water equipment includes a satellite-integrated ocean bottom positioning system, high-precision side-scan double-frequency sonar, and remotely operated submarine robots. They plan to add two submersibles to take people down.
On the treasure trail, it has already located some 700 target sites where historic wrecks are thought to lie and it recently videotaped and identified three of them as large, 17th century ships with valuable cargo.
Bringing up treasure will finance the project. But Zelitsky said, “Our agenda is much broader. We are very anxious about global environmental changes. Archeology is providing us with the means to conduct broader scientific ocean exploration.”
The other three foreign companies — one Canadian, one French and one South African — operate in shallower waters than ADC. Under contracts with Cuban state partner Geomar, all the firms have concessions to explore in different swathes of sea and would share profits with the government.
On the site ReverseSpins.com, the report:
‘Atlantis Rising Magazine is reporting in the Jan/Feb 2001 issue that the 9/11 attack has affected the exploration of the underwater city off Cuba. The dive had been scheduled by National Geographic and the Cuban Science Foundation. First logistics and Cuban red tape had delayed the effort now the terrorist attack has put it on hold.’
Have been following the ‘sunken city’ off Cuba since it first came to light (at least, to me) a year or so back.
Geologically, the area in question could have, conceivably, been above the water line at one time, given that it would have also been subject to the same tectonic upheavals as recently were witnessed in Haiti and before that when Port Royal (Jamaica) all but fell into the sea in 1692.
So, the claim is not as ridiculous as some make it out to be. But where it really gets tricky is in exactly who was building there and exactly when it was built. And answering those questions won’t be nearly as easy as speculating because of the depth and the long-term effect that oceanic water has on most all sunken artifacts. You could find a pyramid and even an old cigar stand but… dating it would require years of investigation and even then, would likely be somewhat faulty.
This same problems arise for those who claim that the remains of Atlantis exist at a certain spot along the mid-Atlantic ridge, almost proximate to the Strait of Gibraltar… or as it was once known, the Pillars of Hercules.
Fascinating subject. Thanks for sharing!