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An interview with Robert Sarmast is published in the Asian-American "Hyphen" magazine (Issue #8): http://www.hyphenmagazine.com

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Robert will be arriving in Cyprus again by mid March.  The US broadcaster, NBC, will be there by late March to film Robert's story as part of a two hour Atlantis special due to air on one of its cable channels on July 2nd.   A few minutes of footage from the first expedition will be aired on this program for the first time.  The second expedition may also happen this spring/summer season depending on the availability of funds and/or favorable circumstances.

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"Be sure to see the NBC produced, two-hour Atlantis documentary “Quest for Atlantis: Startling New Secrets” hosted by, Natalie Morales which will air on the Sci-Fi Channel  Friday July 7th  - at 9 and 11 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time (8 and 10 p.m. Central. -- 10 p.m. and 12 a.m. Mountain) It airs twice back-to-back on Friday the 7th and then three more times the following week.  Here are the show times:

"QUEST FOR ATLANTIS: STARTLING NEW SECRETS" (with Natalie Morales)

  It airs twice back-to-back on Friday the 7th and then three more times the following week.  Here are the show times:

"QUEST FOR ATLANTIS: STARTLING NEW SECRETS" (with Natalie Morales)
  
07/11/2006 03:00 PM
07/13/2006 11:00 PM
07/14/2006 06:00 PM

We recommend that you check for show times in your own time zones through Sci-Fi's website: http://www.scifi.com/schedulebot/today.html

4th July 06

The Discovery of Atlantis public forum launched today. This will be a moderated forum and we'll do our utmost to keep it clean and friendly. Register here first if you want to post your own topics. Have fun!

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A segment of this Friday morning's (July 7th) NBC Today Show will feature the Sci-Fi documentary due to air later that night.

Article from Eclipse Magazine on the SciFi produced  "Quest for Atlantis"
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Robert will be interviewed by George Noory on the "Coast to Coast AM with George Noory" (formerly the "Art Bell Show") for a three-hour broadcast.  It's a live broadcast this Monday night, August 7th, from around 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Pacific time in the US. 

You can find out what radio station to tune into by checking this link on their website: 

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/info/wheretolisten.html.  If you don't live in the US or Canada you can subscribe to their steamlink (about $7/month) and hear it later.  We'll try to make it available sometime in the future through the site.

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The Robert Sarmast and George Noory interview is avaiable at this link

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=103576;title=APFN

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On MSNBC tonight 1/14/07 Quest for Atlantis is on @ 7pm CST...8pm EST.

27th Feburary 07

Robert Sarmast in Digging for the truth.

Digging for the truth

24th May 07.

Robert Sarmast in Digging for the truth.

The second expedition on September of 2006 proved that the anomalies on and around the purported Acropolis Hill, situated in the middle of the rectangular "great plain" of Atlantis, are natural. It came as a surprise even to some of the world's top geophysicists. The sub-bottom profiler used allowed to view the structure of the seafloor up to about 100 feet, and revealed that the "wall" at the base of the hill is not man-made. However, it also showed that the anomalies are at least hundreds of thousands of years old. This means that when the underwater valley stretching between Cyprus and Syria was above water, and people began to inhabit the area, they would have found an ideal location for a "natural fortress." The hill and its anomalies would have looked very much as they do today, making it an ideal place for living in an age when natural formation were routinely used for defense and agricultural purposes. Thus, if and when people lived in the area, they could have easily irrigated the hillside territory using the ready-made canals and river paths there, as well as the wall at the base of the hill for natural protection. Very little effort would have been needed to turn these anomalies to suitable human purposes, and there's little doubt that human beings would have gravitated to this area and coveted the hillside as prized real estate.

We were able to determine the characteristics of the seafloor by using a sub-bottom profiler which sends a powerful but focused form of acoustic energy (sonar) that penetrates the mud. This technique is often employed by oil companies to analyze the seabed's sedimentary structure before drilling. The problem is that in order to penetrate the mud with sound, the sonar energy has to be focused into a very narrow beam, as opposed to a wide beam that is used to see large areas of the seabed itself. Therefore, our aim of seeing what is below the mud was severely limited because we could only get a glimpse, a narrow look of about a foot or so under the silt. This meant that if there were man-made structures such as buildings, currently below the mud, it would have been impossible for us to find or recognize them. We knew this going in, and were hoping that the purported wall was manmade because it was so large that we could find it, cut across it with the sonar
in tow, and get a glimpse of what it was made of. We knew that finding regular manmade structures below the mud would be an impossible task since the area has been below water for thousands of years and a lot of sedimentation has happened in that time.

To put it simply, our modern technology is so limited that it is very difficult and expensive to even get a look at the seafloor itself -- to see what's UNDER it is extremely challenging to say the least. We've conducted two expeditions now, and each one was filled with numerous technological problems. Water and electricity simply do not mix, and deep-sea research is a monumental task even with the world's best and most modern technology. The "Digging for the Truth" documentary for the History Channel showed only a small portion of the dozens of potentially catastrophic problems we experienced during the second expedition. It is almost impossible to explain to laymen just how difficult it is to research in the deep sea. The fact that we know more about the surface of the Moon and Mars than our own sea and ocean floors should give you an idea (radar doesn't penetrate water so we can only use sonar).

Here's the current situation: We have exhausted the means available to us, given the technological limitations for deep-sea research, and the results failed to either prove or disprove the Cyprus theory. If human beings did once live around the purported Acropolis Hill, currently halfway between Cyprus and Syria, and made modifications to the anomalies already there in order to make it suitable for human habitation, we would not know about it. There is no way to find that out without the ability to "x-ray" large areas of the seafloor, to see what's under all the mud, and discover whether or not man-made structures are there. Narrow sonar beams that give us foot-wide glimpse of what's under the mud, in a straight line as the sonar device is towed behind the ship, are not going to provide what is needed. The technology we have today is not up to par for the task at hand. Imagine how much energy would be needed to penetrate the mud in a sizable area, and give us a picture of what's under it. There are some other methods available but they are also quite expensive and not really suitable for the task.

There is no doubt in the minds of those involved in the project that Atlantis/Eden has indeed been discovered. It is there, between Cyprus and Syria, of this we are sure. The dozens upon dozens of perfect matches with the ancient world's detailed descriptions cannot be ignored, nor can they be coincidental. There is no other Atlantis theory which even remotely comes close to matching these descriptions, much less matching practically every one of them. It is unprecedented.

There is now, given our current technological means, only one way to inexpensively prove or disprove the theory. A "core sample" of the seabed from the rectangular valley could be analyzed to see when the area was last above water. To this date, not a single core sample of the deep-sea area between Cyprus and Syria has ever been taken or analyzed. When we hear scientists say that the Mediterranean was dry last about five million years ago, it should be kept in mind that these numbers come from core samples taken from completely unrelated areas, far away from the northeastern tip of the Mediterranean Sea where Atlantis/Eden was once above water. In other words, these numbers are based on guess work, not data. Until and unless the data itself comes in, the numbers are not based on scientific proof.

We will now have to await the next set of data, which may or may not come from our own work. Sooner or later these core samples will be taken, maybe by an oil company or some scientists doing unrelated research. New and as-of-yet undiscovered technologies and techniques are also destined to give us the means to see what lays under the mud in that region. There are several cities hidden under the mud, within that rectangular valley, and finding them is practically impossible for the time being, but we are certain that the only thing standing between us and their discovery is time itself. Plato will yet be vindicated...

Robert Sarmast
May 24, 2007

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