Yonaguni Podcast is Up

This is a very strange and unusual podcast this week. I interviewed Dr.

Robert Schoch from Boston University. He was involved in a History Channel

Special on the Yonaguni Underwater Monument. Some say that this immense

structure, 80 feet underwater, is artificially made and sculpted. Dr. Schoch

comes down on that it is naturally formed.

Regardless, if you are looking for an exotic dive site to video, you may

want to check out the Underwater Videographer podcast at

www.underwatervideographer.tv.

By the way, unless I am mistaken, History Channel ran the special last week.

Also, by the way, not sure about the copyright laws on this, but the video

is up on Google Video at

Ancient Marvels Mysterious Pyramids at

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=77...&pr=goog-sl

I was there in 98 when ol' Graham Hancock was there. And I listened to that Professor from some university talk about the place and his theories of how the formations were landscaped with old tools. I also dived it a few times with Arataki San the local dive guy who "found" the area after fishermen had been talking about it.

The story has changed over the years and I believe the pro human formed crowd is calling it a stone quarry. Except there has been no sign of these rocks in use anywhere. Also the area is the only place where there is no coral or growth on any of the monuments. If I remember, there was perhaps one clam on a flat shelf. I remember the Japanese believe it to be holy and quite a few people were praying to a certain rock formation.

Those who believe it's a hoax think it's the people on Yonaguni trying to "liven" up the tourism with the monument and thus the lack of growth indicates it's been tampered with.

Arguments against the hoax counter with the current being pretty strong enough to prevent life from attaching itself to the rock face. I've dived there enough times to know that is not true but not being a marine biologist my opinion is as valid as Graham's theories on the 3 pyramids

Still it's a cool dive and there are hammerheads there in Feb. Expensive to get there and I believe now there is an American operator there, so you don't have to be speak Nihongo to even live!

Interesting. Thank you.

I was there in 98 when ol' Graham Hancock was there. And I listened to that Professor from some university talk about the place and his theories of how the formations were landscaped with old tools. I also dived it a few times with Arataki San the local dive guy who "found" the area after fishermen had been talking about it.

The story has changed over the years and I believe the pro human formed crowd is calling it a stone quarry. Except there has been no sign of these rocks in use anywhere. Also the area is the only place where there is no coral or growth on any of the monuments. If I remember, there was perhaps one clam on a flat shelf. I remember the Japanese believe it to be holy and quite a few people were praying to a certain rock formation.

Those who believe it's a hoax think it's the people on Yonaguni trying to "liven" up the tourism with the monument and thus the lack of growth indicates it's been tampered with.

Arguments against the hoax counter with the current being pretty strong enough to prevent life from attaching itself to the rock face. I've dived there enough times to know that is not true but not being a marine biologist my opinion is as valid as Graham's theories on the 3 pyramids

Still it's a cool dive and there are hammerheads there in Feb. Expensive to get there and I believe now there is an American operator there, so you don't have to be speak Nihongo to even live!