Hunting Atlantis

Finally after all these years they are looking in the right place. Just because it's called the "Atlantic Ocean" doesn't mean that's where Atlantis is. In ancient times the pillars of Hercules weren't where the rock of Gibraltar is today. If you look at a world map. In continent of South Americans fits pretty good into west Africa and over millions of years the continents pulled a part. Yet people think there was a giant continent between them. Not happening. Besides the Atlantic Ocean in ancient times the Atlantic Ocean was In explored I'm talking 10,000 BC not 3,000 where you had the Egyptians and the Phoenicians sailing around but they still would only travel as long as land was in sight. The sea levels were 500 feet lower so the Gibraltar idea as the pillars of Hercules doesn't fit because the Mediterranean Sea was land locked.

Interesting.

If you're a film junkie like myself then you'll appreciate the time and effort that Stel Pavlou, Jess Phoenix and everyone else put in to make this happen.

I enjoyed it. Not my place to say where it could have been improved. It is what it is.

Thank you.

"Wow! That's amazing!" Well, yes, it was also amazing on a documentary three years earlier. Are they actually "discovering" anything? I don't think so. While Drain the Oceans uses amazing technology to map whole swaths of the sea floor, Jess and Stel struggle with murky water to find things that have already been found, to "uncover" secrets that haven't been secrets for years. That said, it's entertaining enough to watch them play tour guides and to find for themselves things that have already been found. One thing that really bugs me about all these sort of "hunting" this or that "mystery," ie, hunting the mummy of John Wilkes Booth is the reliance on phrases like, "could this be the actual mummy?" when both they and the viewer know good and well it isn't. Or, "if this turns out to be what we think it is, it *may be* the (fill in the blank.) Again, my inner dialogue: "but it won't and it isn't." Pretty scenery, though.

Out of the two hosts neither has a personality. They will find something and claim it is so interesting or exciting. Yet the tone in their voice says it is not exciting or interesting but barely worth mentioning. The man who claims to be an expert on Atlantis says Plato describes it as being beyond the pillars of Hercules. The problem there is Hercules is a Roman demigod Plato was Greek, They are two entirely different epochs. The name he is looking for is Heracles, which means something along the lines of in honor of Hera, the irony being he is not Hera's son. How can you claim to be an expert in Atlantis and Plato's account if you are not using the Greek names Plato used. How can you claim to know more about Atlantis than everyone else and yet you use the same incorrect name everyone else does? If you don't have something as simple as a name correct why would you have anything else that is more complicated correct?

Sensationalistic commentary added after the fact, grasping at straws no real true science. When the hosts talk to actual scientists, you can tell that they are pushing, and the actual scientists are very uncomfortable. I feel that this show is very pushy and fake. The female host is quite unbearable with her commentary and captain obvious moments. All these new documentaries are filmed the same way with no true science and all sensationalism. The male host is a broken record says the same saying over and over and he sounds like a stoner. This whole series feels fake and forced. You can tell that the actual scientists don't want to work with the hosts and that they are just humoring the show for the money.