Hunting Atlantis

"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.

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.

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.

I doubt this team will ever find Atlantis, even if it does exist as their efforts are greatly lacking. It IS interesting if you like ancient or pre-history archaeology as it offers a good introduction to the subject. If nothing else is on TV, it will suffice.

Quite interesting, but dialogue is added later and sounds incredibly fake and ruins the show for me. It's like they made this show without any experience or plans, and added dialogue later in a studio. Even the diving sessions has added dialogue. Why couldn't they use a narrator voice instead?