200 Foot Underwater Visibility at Cozumel

We visited Cozumel Island while filming the Yucatan Travel Movie. The snorkeling was fantastic. However, we did not know that the underwater visibility is so fine since we do not scuba dive.

According to Travel Yucatan, Cozumel enjoys 200 feet of underwater visibility and 80-degree-plus seawater temperature in the summer–two elements perfect for snorkeling.

Snorkeling in Cancun and Cozumel

According to the article, most visitors to Cozumel prefer to snorkel at Chankanaab and Dzul Ha. For us, we simply donned our snorkeling gear at a seaside restaurant and joined the other folk in fins and masks.

Yucatan Travel Movie Screening Sunday, July 11

The Yucatan Travel Movie will have its first official public screen on Sunday, July 11th at 2:00 p.m. at the Gloucester Library. It is at 6920 Main Street, in Gloucester, Virginia. Click here for more information.

Is the Pyramid in the Bahamas part of Atlantis?

In my May 18th and 19th blog posts, I examined the report, Dr. Ray Brown’s Subterranean Pyramid Diving Experience, on Crystalinks that a Dr. Ray Brown came upon a submerged 120-foot tall pyramid in the Bahamas.

I found this report especially intriguing because Edgar Cayce, America’s amazing seer, also known as “The Sleeping Prophet,” said that there were three places in the world where the Atlanteans had left records of their civilization. One was near Bimini in the Bahamas.

Copyright (c) 2010 Carol Chapman

Comment on Apocalypto May 14th Post

On May 15th, I received something from Burson-Marsteller Watch having to do with my May 14th post. It was not quite a comment and it did not have an email address or a name. Is this a ping? Not sure.

In any case, my blog post is now on the Burson-Marsteller Watch website, which is OK with me. In fact, I am delighted.

However, not being totally blog savvy, when I first saw, “read the whole article,” with a link to my May 14th blog post, I went back to the original article at TwitTravel/Best Travel Deals and read that original whole article to the end. The first time through, I had only read the first half. It is a long article.

When I reread the article, I learned that Mel Gibson had merely considered Edzna as the setting for Apocalypto but had chosen a location in Veracruz instead.

Even though I got to the information in a round about way, I am happy I have it because I will be sure in the Yucatan Travel Movie, not to say that Mel Gibson chose to shoot parts of Apocalypto in Edzna.

Questionable Details in “Submerged Pyramid in the Bahamas” Crystalinks Story

I’ve been thinking about that article I mentioned in yesterday’s blog post from Crystalinks. In the article entitled, Dr. Ray Brown’s Subterranean Pyramid Diving Experience, Dr. Ray Brown was a scuba diver from Mesa.

He goes off by himself, away from his friends, and, without anyone around to back up his story, comes upon this underwater pyramid. After his experience, does he bring his friends to the pyramid? No. Was there really a pyramid?

This is the part that makes me wonder. He says that it was 120 feet high – Did he measure it? How did he know? And, here’s the real kicker. He also says that only 90 feet of the 120-foot-high pyramid was sticking out of the sand. Really? Did he measure it? Did he dig down?

I love a good lost continent of Atlantis story. I have past life memories of being in Atlantis that I wrote about in my books, When We Were Gods and Arrival of the Gods in Egypt, and, I really, really want to believe that someone has found what could be the ruins of Atlantis submerged in the Bahamas.

But, even I have to wonder how a lone scuba diver could know that only 90 feet of a 120 foot tall pyramid was sticking out of the sand and that 30 feet of the pyramid was buried. Do you know how deep 30 feet is? That’s about as tall as a three story house.

He dug that far down to the base of it? With his hands? Is this a dream or a fairy tale?

Submerged Atlantean Pyramid in the Bahamas?

Today I thought I’d just check out Crystalinks to see if there was anything new on that site that I haven’t seen before on Atlantis. Well, I am glad I did because I found this amazing article about a Dr. Ray Brown who evidently found an amazing crystal inside an underwater pyramid in the Bahamas while scuba diving. You’ve got to read the article.

I am amazed that Dr. Brown had the hutzpah to go inside this strange pyramid. Maybe scuba divers are naturally braver and more curious that ordinary folk.

If it was me and I came across a totally never-before-seen pyramid sticking out of the earth, I wouldn’t go charging inside it.

When I visited the Great Pyramid in Egypt, even seeing the three great pyramids from a distance awed me to my bones because they are so absolutely strange compared to any square or even dome building I’ve ever seen before.

I can’t imagine approaching and climbing into something that unusual without at least calling some friends to join me. And, why didn’t he take pictures? Don’t scuba divers bring underwater cameras with them?

Furthermore, this Dr. Brown had the audacity to take away a crystal he found held by life-size hands that appeared to be burnt. I think I’d be fainting about now. Life-size hands that appear burnt inside an underwater pyramid! Run away, run away!

And, whatever you do, do NOT touch the crystal! Oh no, but not only does Dr. Brown have to touch the crystal in the weird hands, but also he has to take it away! It supposedly has been examined by someone at the Smithsonian Institute. Is this for real?

Here’s the beginning of the Crystalinks article. The rest of the article is at the link below.

Allegedly in 1970, Dr. Ray Brown, a naturopathic practitioner from Mesa, Arizona, was scuba diving with friends near the Bahamas, in an area 20 miles from the edge of a submarine drop-off called the Tongue of the Ocean.

During the dive, Brown became separated from his companions, and in trying to rejoin them, suddenly saw a strange pyramid shape looming up against the aquamarine light. The pyramid was situated 22 fathoms down, stood 120 feet high, with only 90 feet projecting out of the sea floor shifting sands. Brown was at first struck by how smooth and mirror-like the stone surface of the structure was, with the joints between the individual blocks almost indiscernible.

Dr. Ray Brown’s Subterranean Pyramid Diving Experience

Atlantis Found in Indonesia?

I remember an incident when I was speaking at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, for the Edgar Cayce Forum. Since my topic dealt with Edgar Cayce’s psychic readings on Atlantis, I opened by asking the audience to name a number of places that have been publicized as “Atlantis Found.” I received suggestions from numerous people such as in the Atlantic Ocean by the Sargasso Sea, the Azores Islands, the Caribbean Sea around Bimini Island – all mentioned in the Edgar Cayce readings as locations where Atlantis once existed. In the middle of this introduction, one man stood up, and he would not sit down but he insisted that Atlantis was in the Indian Ocean in Indonesia.

Well, today I found what may be the source of that man’s certainty that Atlantis had been in the Indian Ocean. This theory is based on the work of Professor Arysio Nunes dos Santos who says that the world during Atlantean times was very different. He reminds us that much of the time during the existence of Atlantis, the world was in the Pleistocene era, a time when the Ice Ages dominated the earth. Because of the ice, the water level was much lower than it is now. He also says that there was much more ocean and much less land at that time (which doesn’t really make sense if the water level was much lower, there would have been much more ocean floor exposed) and that the Atlantic Ocean would have extended into the Indian Ocean.

I only viewed the first part of the videotaped interview with the professor. However, I find his theory intriguing and thought you might also. Here’s the link: http://www.atlan.org.

Atlantis Colony in Africa According to Plato

I enjoyed the well-written summary of Plato’s information on Atlantis in the following blog. It especially interested me because Plato evidently said that Atlantis conquered parts of Africa.

This information agrees with my past life regressions in which I had past life memories of travelling from Atlantis to Egypt. My story is in my book, Arrival of the Gods in Egypt. In 2000, I traveled to Egypt to look for evidence of Atlanteans in the paintings in the pharaoh’s tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

The Greek philosopher Plato was the first to acknowledge the existence of Atlantis in his dialogues “Timaeus” and “Critias”. Plato’s accounts have Atlantis lying “beyond the pillars of Hercules” and being a island of great naval power that conquered parts of Africa and Western Europe.

The Ongoing Search For the Lost City of Atlantis

Special Feature: Music in Yucatan Travel Movie

I am in the middle of editing the special feature of the Yucatan Travel Movie called, “Music in the Yucatan Travel Movie.”

So far, I have acknowledged Tom Petrachenko for his lovely songs, “A Moment,” and “All These Ghosts.” Tom not only composed and played these songs on the guitar, but he also wrote and sings the lyrics in “All These Ghosts.” Lovely. I have received many compliments for these tunes.

Maya Actors Used in Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto

A blog post by Erick Laseca who works for Burson-Marsteller as public relations liaison for the Mexico Tourism Board in Chicago begins with:

The height of Mayan civilization may have ended some 1600 years ago, but this enigmatic empire seems to be making a come-back. This past Friday, December 8th, movie theaters across North America released Mel Gibson’s much-anticipated feature, Apocalypto, filmed in Mexico, bringing the late, great Mayan civilization to life on the big screen.

Mexican Mayans Descendant Make Debut in Apocalypto

Although I disagree with Laseca’s calling the Maya, “Mayans,” nonetheless, I found his comprehensive article on the Maya informative, entertaining and interesting. After all, it might be that Laseca uses the term “Mayans” since it works better as a keyword search phrase, “Maya” more often bringing up Maya Angelou.

During filming of the Yucatan Travel Movie, we visited the ruins at Edzna, which is supposed to be the ruin Mel Gibson chose as the model for his Mayan ruin set in the movie Apocalypto. We loved Edzna. The Palace of the Five Stories is gorgeous.