![]() ![]() ![]() I described in Chapter One how Santha and I learned to dive, and the remarkable synchronicities and good fortune that brought us to Yonaguni in March 1997 to begin a systematic programme of underwater photography and research there that was to continue until mid-2001. And I realised that it would rewrite prehistory if it could indeed be proved to be man-made. ![]() I felt an immediate compulsion to explore the beautiful and mysterious structure that beckoned so alluringly from the photographs. This was the moment, if there ever was just one moment, when the “Underworld” quest began for me and when much that I had learnt in previous years in many different countries began to swing sharply into focus and make sense. I was in Tokyo in 1996 when the photojournalist Ken Shindo showed me the first images I had ever seen of an awe-inspiring terraced structure, apparently a man-made monument of some kind, lying at depths of up to 30 metres off the Japanese island of Yonaguni at the remote south-west end of the Ryukyu archipelago. Dr Wolf Wichmann, geologist, Yonaguni, March 2001 The question was, or is still, is it and, if yes, to what extent is it made by man or overworked by man? This is the question. Chapter Twenty-Seven Confronting Yonaguni ![]()
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