The Eden-Atlantis Project

Plato's legendary account of a sunken island civilization called Atlantis has fascinated adventurers for centuries. Recent efforts to find Plato's lost island have culminated in two exciting underwater surveys in the Eastern Mediterranean that were staged in 2004 and 2006 both of which uncovered tantalizing evidence that strongly merits additional inquiry. In this color-illustrated book, Commodore Robert S. Bates sifts through the acquired evidence and argues that our search for Atlantis or what some call Eden may now be narrowed to a sunken continent adjacent to Cyprus that geologists located decades ago. The History Channel funded and filmed the second expedition to this site, but you will learn in this book why a third expedition may now be warranted. In recognition of the likely confluence of the two great legends of Atlantis and Eden, Bates calls the ongoing research into this sunken land the Eden-Atlantis Project. This short book offers you a thorough review of the recently obtained archeological evidence pointing to an Eastern Mediterranean location for Eden-Atlantis. It also links these new scientific facts with the historical evidence that a proto-civilization may have preceded the known civilizations of the ancient Near East.
 
This edition is a reprinting of the second edition (9780578527659) published in March 2020.
 

Commodore Robert Stanley Bates has led distinguished careers as an officer in the Coast Guard and the U.S. Merchant Marine over a period of sixty years. In 2004, Bates was the expedition leader to the suspected site of Eden-Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus, and in 2006 he was the consultant to the History Channel for the second expedition. His 26-year Coast Guard career included service on the icebreaker USCGC Eastwind during which he participated in bottom-mapping of uncharted Antarctic bays. Bates has also served as captain both for the University of Rhode Island Research Vessel Endeavor and for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute s Research Vessel Oceanus for numerous other sub-sea projects. He was also captain of the survey vessel USNS Harkness for bottom-mapping in the Persian Gulf. In 1995, he founded Batek Marine, a maritime consulting firm, and has authored numerous articles in his field. He is also the author of The Authority to Sail: The History of US Maritime Licenses and Documents (Batek Marine Publishing, 2011).