The Island That Should Be Underwater
And then comes the detail that makes this story feel like it belongs in a thriller instead of a classroom.
He argues that this corresponds to the region of the Grand Bahama Banks — near where divers later discovered the infamous Bimini Road in 1968.
The Bimini Road is still debated: natural formation or man-made?
But Hancock’s point is different.
He says:
“I don’t care whether it’s natural or man-made… the mystery is it’s shown above water on that map.”
Because if it truly corresponds to that location, and it was drawn as exposed land…
Then whoever mapped it might have seen it when sea levels were lower — potentially thousands and thousands of years ago, back toward the end of the last Ice Age.
That’s where Hancock’s voice changes.
He starts sounding like a man pointing at a locked door and saying:
“Someone was here before us… and they knew the oceans.”
The Accepted Story vs. Hancock’s Story
The accepted story says humanity didn’t become true long-range ocean navigators until the Polynesian Expansion, roughly 3,000–3,500 years ago.
That story is not insulting — Polynesians were extraordinary navigators. They crossed impossible distances and found islands that seem nearly unfindable.
But Hancock asks a blunt question:
If we know ancient civilizations like Egypt built boats 4,500 years ago, why do we act like no one ever tried the open ocean earlier?
And more importantly:
To his critics, Hancock is building castles on ambiguity. He’s stacking “maybe” on “maybe” until it feels like truth.
To his supporters, academics are guarding a timeline so tightly that they refuse to see what’s right in front of them.
A mainstream archaeologist told me once:
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
A Hancock supporter fired back online:
“And we have extraordinary evidence — you just won’t look at it.”
That line spread like gasoline on social media.
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