A diver from the Project Alta team examines the `road' structure off Anguilla island in the Cay Sal group in the southern Bahamas in June 1998. This stone causeway, which runs at a right-angle to the nearby beach and over 400 metres in length, is very similar to the more famous Bimini Road in the northwestern Bahamas. Sea-worn stone blocks, some over 4 metres square, make up this formation. Geologists say the structure is natural, constructed from fractured beach rock still in situ. Atlantologists, on the other hand, claim it is artificial, the product of a lost race that inhabited the drowned regions of the Bahamas prior to 8000 BC. No one has necessarily the correct answer as the judges are still out on this one.

I swam the structure at least three times before concluding only that whatever was responsible for the Bimini Road must also have been responsible for its neighbour off Anguila Island. I tend to go in favour with the geologists. However, it is they who also tell us that outcrops of beach rock run parallel to nearby beaches and NOT at right angles. So there has to be chance that it is the product of human hands. Yet look for yourself and make up your own opinions.

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