Heres the real scoop on the article.Its a HOAX!
This is why it wasnt on CNN or any of the major news stations.
The Herald de Paris online news would be considered just a mullet wrapper paper if it was on the news stands.
http://www.heralddeparis.com/surprise-underwater-cities-atlantis-and-all-that-jazz/67059
WASHINGTON, DC (Herald de Paris) - What fun! our underwater story has made it all the way to the Huffington Post. To some, that’s like buying a Bedazzler to make your dress for the Queen’s Ball. We’re going Switzerland on this one. Regardless, I wanted to reply over there, but Ariana just couldn’t offer me enough word count. So I’m responding here:
Hi Huffpo.
Thanks for picking up this story and not mentioning where it originated. Stellar work. Thanks especially for proving our point with this story .. let me explain.
Yes, there was indeed an intriguing anomaly discovered. Yes, it does look like ancient ruins. Yes, there are some images the researchers are pining over, because they seem to indicate that there must have been human intervention for these things to exist.
So what do you do? Write it up and hope someone gives you the opportunity (see: FUNDING) to confirm and research. What does a technical piece in an academic journal get you? If you’re lucky, an online subscription to the academic journal, but really not all that often.
In this crazy, mixed up era we live in, you have to sleep with 18 waitresses or be the illegitimate daughter of an overdosed ex-supermodel to get press coverage. People don’t want hopeful, interesting, geeky scholar stories. Oh sure some do, but not most. Honestly, no guys involved with the research were willing to sleep with that many waitresses, nor did any of the women want to birth a love child and then overdose just to get this interesting story some press.
Instead, it was decided to publish some of the strange and colorful images, and write the story with a few holes in it .. Voila, you have mystery and intrigue (don’t make me wiggle my fingers in front of your eyes like Jack Black, here) and people aren’t just reading .. they’re discussing. Seriously, we’re wondering how to package this”backwards learning” and sell it to Scholastic.
Nevertheless, if what you still garnered from what has been published to date is, “It looks like a computer chip,” You’re probably not the people this team is hoping to attract, anyway.
What’s the truth? There’s something really interesting out there in the ocean, and these people, of which I am one, want to go check it out, so they can report to you what’s really there. It could be wondrous. It could be just about anything, but it is something, and some of the elements do imply structure .. or what’s left of some very old structure.
I know what I see. So do a whole lot of really respected scientists, scholars, and researchers. Still, nobody wants to put their name on something until they can see it with their own eyes. Makes sense. You see, as hopeful as some leading people in this field might be, nobody wants to find the next, “Capone’s Vault.” Not in this media climate.
So the story was let out there a certain way, and people took to it, good or bad, like gnats to a porch light. No pun intended, this project just created its own buzz.
Honestly, would you be reading this if the story had originated in the, “Journal of The Society of Underwater Looker-People”? No.
Is it Atlantis? It could possibly be part of something that once existed that through the ages became the “Atlantis” story? Maybe. But nobody will ever know unless this research team has the opportunity (see: FUNDING) to get down there and investigate the site. If someone would fund the initial reconnaissance, the researchers bring back the answers to the questions that everyone keeps asking.
Now, wasn’t that easy?
Joyous wishes for the holidays,
Jes Alexander, Publisher
Herald de Paris et Cie.