Bermuda Triangle Yields Secrets
By Dr. Greg Little

The "Bermuda Triangle" is a vast expanse of islands and ocean covering nearly 500,000 square miles. The term is typically applied to the area enclosed by a triangle starting from Miami, Florida, to Puerto Rico, to Bermuda, and back to Miami. The Bermuda Triangle Organization lists 125 incidents of disappearances (until 2002) of planes and the disappearance of 94 ships/boats within the Triangle, with the first ship report from 1780. A large portion of the Bahamas lies within the Triangle.

The small Bahamas island of Bimini, lying only 50 miles from Miami, has been the location of several ship and plane disappearances and has also received intense scrutiny for possible archaeological remains. But Andros Island, the largest of the Bahamas islands lying 100 miles from Bimini, has been given little attention by archaeologists or Bermuda Triangle researchers. Bimini lies in what many consider to be the "focal point" of the Bermuda Triangle, but Andros, especially North Andros, is also within the Triangle and has been the location of numerous disappearances. This report, the first of three, focuses on the unexpected discovery of planes linked to the Bermuda Triangle mystery.

The Association For Research & Enlightenment's
Search For Atlantis

Beginning in 1968, intense exploration in the Bahamas was conducted by members of the ARE (Association For Research & Enlightenment) following reports made by Dr. J. Manson Valentine of the discovery of an underwater structure found off Andros and then another stone formation at Bimini. Exhaustive investigations made in recent years by archaeologist William Donato, Dr. Lora Little, and the present author have conclusively shown that the underwater stone structure lying off Bimini is the remains of a ancient harbor. In addition, a similar structure was found at Andros and another harbor was found about a mile from the first Bimini formation in 2006.

In late 2006 and in May and June 2007, a series of expeditions were conducted in the Bahamas, which performed extensive side-scan sonar at Bimini as well as near Andros and several areas on the Great Bahama Bank. Results from the side-scan sonar will be more fully presented in a forthcoming article, scheduled for August 1, 2007. However, the most interesting finds from the sonar and subsequent follow-ups revealed rectangular formations lying in 100 feet of water off Bimini, several unusual stone formations 20+ miles out on the Great Bahama Bank, and the "rediscovery" of an underwater "mass" of fully dressed marble beams, an exquisite marble building apex, marble columns, and numerous huge, rectangular flat slabs of white marble. The most puzzling results included the discovery of an underwater wall off a small, uninhabited island North of Andros. This wall was constructed from huge blocks and slabs of limestone. One section of the wall remains partially intact and consists of three-to-five layers of stone blocks. While this research has been conducted under the title of "The ARE's Search For Atlantis," two facts should be noted. First, nothing has been found in the Bahamas that is linked to the "historical" Atlantis. But some archaeological evidence has been found, which leads to the second point. That is, there is genuine evidence pointing to the existence of an unknown, somewhat sophisticated maritime culture operating in the Bahamas during ancient times. Finding more definitive evidence of this maritime culture is our primary focus.

2007 Progress in the ARE's Search For Atlantis Project
by Dr. Greg Little

Note: This report, abbreviated as it is, is being posted because several individuals and groups were promised that we would issue some sort of summary after the March 2007 exploration of the Bahamas. Because of the finds that were made, little information can be given.

In March 2007 Dr. Lora Little and I spent one grueling week investigating several remote islands of the Bahamas for underwater archaeological ruins. Despite heavy winds creating ocean size waves, we still expored by boat. We spent time conducting an aerial survey and visited areas on the Great Bahama Bank by boat that were 15 miles offshore. We utilized a remote underwater camera searching many underwater areas for perhaps a dozen hours and also used side scan sonar as well as making land surveys of several small islands exploring caves and land. By agreement, we have decided to not release the most intriguing results. In brief, we found a lot of hard "things" (many underwater), however, some of these are so interesting and unexpected that we are now planning on an immediate return for an extended exploration. We are now working with officials who are gathering information that will help clarify the finds. When this information is gathered on our next trip, we will make a report to the ARE, which will be released in the Ancient Mysteries publication. In addition, we will make a 2-hour presentation of the finds at the November Ancient Mysteries Conference in Virginia Beach. It will be a most interesting conference with plenty of visuals of the new finds.

Meanwhile, a second ARE team will soon complete a huge side-scan sonar and sub-bottom profiling project off Bimini. Interest in these projects is building among ARE membership and others, especially with the release and numerous showings of the Sci-Fi documentary, in which our group clearly proved that the Bimini Road was an ancient harbor. That documentary, produced by NBC News, has now been shown over a dozen times including 6 showings on MSNBC.

If the major finds from this past exploration prove to be what they appear to be, we anticipate that it will be extremely important archaeologically.