Friday is Foots-Day. OK, I know that’s a silly name, but tomorrow we’re going to be profiling Foots, the Lost City of Atlantis, and Cayman Brac. We've got a podcast in which we interview him; exclusive pictures of the underwater "City"; gobs of information about diving both Atlantis AND Cayman Brac; and lots of other stuff. Don't forget to stop by.
For those of you who don’t know who Foots is, he’s an artist living on Cayman Brac who’s determined to build a 100,000 square foot underwater city – which he calls the Lost City of Atlantis – out of molded concrete. Already, he’s sunk over 175,000 pounds of sculpture -- and he's not even close to being finished -- and marine life is growing on the sculptures wicked fast. Resting in about 40 feet of water off Radar Reef (near the
Foots and the Lost City of Atlantis: Update
Lost City of Atlantis Open for Business off Cayman Brac
I hope you become as interested in Foots and his project as I am! Can't wait until tomorrow!
1. Thousands of years from now, after we've left this planet, having expired it's resources, colonized new homes on other planets and terraformed moons, we will send global archeologists back to earth to study it further. They will find this fake "city" and possibly be fooled into believing it real. Stories will be made, maybe even movies, until the day when they learn that it's really a lie. Then lives built upon studying the city will be destroyed by broken reputations.
Posted at 11:43AM on Dec 9th 2005 by Randy