Bermeja Island Mystery and Oil Industry Supression:
Bermeja was an island. That statement is worth multi millions dollars between Mexico and the United States who have argued for decades now whether the island ever existed because oil was discovered in the disputed area in the Gulf of Mexico north of the Yucatan. I can no longer find which Youtube video set me on the this ongoing dispute, and forgive me if I missed any references to it in Hancock's vast repertoire of research, but the story is more or less as follows: If the island exists (or perhaps ever existed), Mexico claims the boundary and gets the oil. If not, the US owns that part of the Gulf. The only sound theory is that the island is now submerged. But in the height of the dispute, one Mexican Senator even accused the CIA of "blowing it up." Although one could conceivably remain dubious that such and explosion would go unnoticed by tourists flying into Cancun or basking on the coast north of Merida.
The first known cartographic notation of Bermeja island was made by Alonso de Santa Cruz in 1539 in Atlas of the World Islands. It is noted by a previous post here in this forum that the Chinese had already mapped the area in the Caribbean by the year 1430. It would be very interesting to see if their map reveals Bermeja. Unless they too were borrowing from ancient maps, I suspect not.
We could contemplate what maps were lost by burned Mayan codex from foolish Missionaries; Maps by the ancient Mayan and Carib peoples themselves who have long inhabited the area who probably began their voyage back when Antartica was still on the map and connected to South America.
But of all the possible explanations for Bermeja, what stood out to me is that it does exist on old maps... and resembles the conundrum that Hancock reveals about the Bimini Rd in his Ancient Catastrophe series on Netflix, and how cartographers "borrowed" from even more ancient maps... some that must have predated the Younger Dryas 11,800 years ago, when the ocean was about 400ft lower than it is today.
What is fascinating is that here in the modern era we are still relying on these ancient maps, to the point that a Mexican Senator would accuse the CIA of blowing up an island that was probably submerged and collapsed more than 10,000 years ago. And of course the Mexican and US navies have scanned the disputed area extensively. And this isn't the only strange thing that search for oil has discovered and subsequently studied than suppressed. (Perhaps out of fear that an oil field would be declared an historical site?). Mysteries of ancient pyramids found by oil surveys deep on the ocean floor off the coast of Cuba comes to mind as well. (Zelitsky, Weinzweig).
Unfortunately the technology we need from sonar to lidar is in the hands of oil executives that have far more interest in destroying our planet than using that technology to discover what destroyed it in the past, much less how to prevent such disasters from recurring. Although in the area of preventing the next catastrophe, I will leave NASA's DART mission as bright spot in recent achievements to that endeavor.
Was Bermeja an island in the Gulf of Mexico that was buried or collapsed more than 10,000 years ago both due to isostatic pressure and rising oceans from the Younger Dryas impact out of the Taurid meteor stream? Could the collapse have started during the Younger Dryas impact but completed later?
Does anyone have access to the original Chinese maps that might provide a clue as to whether Europeans were borrowing from ancient maps that were made when Bermeja still existed?
This seems like a subject right up Hancock's Bimini Road.
Bermeja was an island. That statement is worth multi millions dollars between Mexico and the United States who have argued for decades now whether the island ever existed because oil was discovered in the disputed area in the Gulf of Mexico north of the Yucatan. I can no longer find which Youtube video set me on the this ongoing dispute, and forgive me if I missed any references to it in Hancock's vast repertoire of research, but the story is more or less as follows: If the island exists (or perhaps ever existed), Mexico claims the boundary and gets the oil. If not, the US owns that part of the Gulf. The only sound theory is that the island is now submerged. But in the height of the dispute, one Mexican Senator even accused the CIA of "blowing it up." Although one could conceivably remain dubious that such and explosion would go unnoticed by tourists flying into Cancun or basking on the coast north of Merida.
The first known cartographic notation of Bermeja island was made by Alonso de Santa Cruz in 1539 in Atlas of the World Islands. It is noted by a previous post here in this forum that the Chinese had already mapped the area in the Caribbean by the year 1430. It would be very interesting to see if their map reveals Bermeja. Unless they too were borrowing from ancient maps, I suspect not.
We could contemplate what maps were lost by burned Mayan codex from foolish Missionaries; Maps by the ancient Mayan and Carib peoples themselves who have long inhabited the area who probably began their voyage back when Antartica was still on the map and connected to South America.
But of all the possible explanations for Bermeja, what stood out to me is that it does exist on old maps... and resembles the conundrum that Hancock reveals about the Bimini Rd in his Ancient Catastrophe series on Netflix, and how cartographers "borrowed" from even more ancient maps... some that must have predated the Younger Dryas 11,800 years ago, when the ocean was about 400ft lower than it is today.
What is fascinating is that here in the modern era we are still relying on these ancient maps, to the point that a Mexican Senator would accuse the CIA of blowing up an island that was probably submerged and collapsed more than 10,000 years ago. And of course the Mexican and US navies have scanned the disputed area extensively. And this isn't the only strange thing that search for oil has discovered and subsequently studied than suppressed. (Perhaps out of fear that an oil field would be declared an historical site?). Mysteries of ancient pyramids found by oil surveys deep on the ocean floor off the coast of Cuba comes to mind as well. (Zelitsky, Weinzweig).
Unfortunately the technology we need from sonar to lidar is in the hands of oil executives that have far more interest in destroying our planet than using that technology to discover what destroyed it in the past, much less how to prevent such disasters from recurring. Although in the area of preventing the next catastrophe, I will leave NASA's DART mission as bright spot in recent achievements to that endeavor.
Was Bermeja an island in the Gulf of Mexico that was buried or collapsed more than 10,000 years ago both due to isostatic pressure and rising oceans from the Younger Dryas impact out of the Taurid meteor stream? Could the collapse have started during the Younger Dryas impact but completed later?
Does anyone have access to the original Chinese maps that might provide a clue as to whether Europeans were borrowing from ancient maps that were made when Bermeja still existed?
This seems like a subject right up Hancock's Bimini Road.