Sometimes connected to the Atlantis story is the submerged rock formation known as the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas, which is in the Triangle by some definitions.

Followers of the purported psychic Edgar Cayce take his prediction that evidence of Atlantis would be found in 1968 as referring to the discovery of the Bimini Road.

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The most contentious of these sites is The Bimini Road.

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The Bimini Road, sometimes called the Bimini Wall, is an underwater rock formation near North Bimini island in the Bahamas.

This stone pavement was found to form a northeast-southwest linear feature, which is most commonly known as either the " Bimini Road " or " Bimini Wall ".

After Valentine, the Bimini Road has been visited and examined by geologists, avocational archaeologists, professional archaeologists, anthropologists, marine engineers, innumerable divers, and many other people.

In addition to the Bimini Road, investigators have found two additional " pavement-like " linear features that lie parallel to and shoreward of the Bimini Wall.

Descriptions of the Bimini Road found in various books and articles greatly exaggerate the regularity and rectangularity of the blocks composing these features.

The Bimini Road, the largest of three linear features, is long, a northeast / southwest-trending feature with a pronounced hook at its southwest end.

The two narrower and shorter, approximately-long linear features lying shoreward of the Bimini Road consist of smaller tabular stone blocks that are only in maximum horizontal breadth.

The highly rounded nature of the blocks forming the Bimini Road indicates that a significant thickness of their original surface has been removed by biological, physical, and chemical processes.

After a very detailed examination of the Bimini Road and the other linear features, Gifford and Ball made the following observations.

Pictures posted on various Web pages of stones alleged to be artificial " wedge stones " and " prop stones " fail as convincing evidence for a second course of stones because they are typically smaller in size, do not form a continuous course, and too infrequently lie directly beneath the blocks that form the surface of the Bimini Road.

In addition, early studies of the Bimini Road, i. e. Gifford and Ball and David Zink, report taking numerous samples and cores for examination.

In addition, it is safe to presume that a certain number of the innumerable visitors to the Bimini Road have chipped off pieces of it.

Natural beachrock pavements that are identical to the Bimini Road have been found eroding out of the east shore of Loggerhead Key of Dry Tortugas and submerged beneath 90 meters of water at Pulley Ridge off the southwest coast of Florida.

They described this sample as being " Whole rock marine limestone under beachrock off Paradise Point, North Bimini ; some recrystallization.

According to Menzies, half of the fleet, under the command of admiral Zhou Wen, was caught in a hurricane near Bimini and built the Bimini Road from beach rock and the ships ' ballast as a slipway to haul damaged junks ashore for refitting and repairs of damage caused by the hurricane.

Others who consider the Bimini undersea formation to be man-made, as opposed to natural beachrock, are Joseph Manson Valentine, zoologist ; Charles Berlitz, linguist ; Greg Little, psychologist ; R. Cedric Leonard, anthropologist ; and Dimitri Rebikoff, French marine engineer.

Historically most of the locations where the sport was developed, such as Avalon, California ; Florida ; Bimini in the Bahamas ; Cairns, Queensland, Australia ; northern New Zealand ; Panama ; Wedgeport in Nova Scotia and Kona in Hawaii, benefited from the presence of large numbers of gamefish relatively close to shore, within range of the boats of that era.

Many anglers believe that large yellowfin are, pound for pound, the fastest and strongest of all big game tunas: renowned American author S. Kip Farrington, who fished the classic giant bluefin tuna fisheries of Bimini and Cat Cay in the Bahamas as well as Wedgeport in Nova Scotia, Canada, in their heyday, rated the yellowfin tuna of Hawaii as equal to a bluefin ' twice his weight '.

The Bimini Wall and two linear features lying shoreward of it are composed of flat-lying, tabular, and rectangular, subrectangular, polygonal, and irregular blocks.

The consensus among conventional geologists and archaeologists is that the Bimini Road is a natural feature composed of beachrock that orthogonal and other joints have broken up into rectangular, subrectangular, polygonal, and irregular blocks.

Natural pavements composed of stone blocks, which often are far more rectangular and consistent in size than the blocks composing the Bimini Road, created by orthogonal and other jointing within sedimentary rocks, including beachrock, are quite common and found throughout the world.

On September 2, 1968, while diving in three fathoms ( 5. 5 meters ) of water off the northwest coast of North Bimini island, J. Manson Valentine encountered an extensive " pavement " of what later was found to be noticeably rounded stones of varying size and thickness.

These include direct radiocarbon dating of the stones composing the Bimini Road and Uranium-thorium dating of the marine limestone on which the Bimini Road lies.

Little and his team reported the discovery of an entire second layer of square-cut rocks with similar dimensions beneath the stones of the Bimini Road.

Warner Bros. had just bought rights to Hunt's novel Bimini Run when he joined the CIA in October 1949 as a political action specialist, in what came to be called their Special Activities Division.

Boats from Scotland, England, the Bimini Islands and Cuba were pulled across a narrow strip of beach land just across from Oak Hill, Florida.

On 19 December 2005 Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Bimini, Bahamas, with an unscheduled stop at Watson Island, Miami, Florida, crashed off Miami Beach, Florida.

An Atlantic blue marlin with a mass of caught off Bimini allegedly inspired Hemingway to write The Old Man and the Sea and Islands in The Stream.

McCoy then began to smuggle whisky into the U. S., traveling from Nassau and Bimini in the Bahamas to the east coast of the United States, spending most time dealing on " Rum row " off Long Island.

The largest islands are North Bimini and South Bimini.

North Bimini is about seven miles ( 11 km ) long and 700 feet ( 210 m ) wide.

South Bimini houses an airstrip, South Bimini Airport, and offers a quiet alternative to the slow bustle of North Bimini.

Parts of the wreck were stripped over the years and some of the wood was used in the construction of the Compleat Angler Hotel and bar on North Bimini.

Found within the salt water mangrove swamp that covers four miles ( 6 km ) of North Bimini is The Healing Hole, a pool that lies at the end of a network of winding underground tunnels.

Satellite picture of North Bimini Island

Both these dates and interpretation are consistent with the detailed research by Davaud and Strasser that concluded that the layer of beachrock composing the Bimini Road formed beneath the surface of North Bimini Island and was only exposed by coastal erosion about 1, 900 to 2, 000 years ago.

Detailed studies by E. Davaud and A. Strasser of Holocene limestones currently exposed on North Bimini and Joulter Cays ( Bahamas ) reveal the sequence of events likely responsible for creating beachrock pavements like the Bimini Road.

First, a complete beach sequence of shallow subtidal, intertidal, and supratidal carbonate sediments accumulated as the shoreline of North Bimini built seaward during part of the Holocene.