Word: spanuth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the stenographer wrote it down, Pastor Spanuth leaned against the gunwale, breathing hard. Plato, he was sure now, had guided him to the right spot...
Late this summer a fishing boat set out from the German port of Husum. On board was scholarly Jürgen Spanuth, pastor of the Lutheran church in Ost Bordelum, a little village behind the North Sea dikes. Also on board were a diver, a public stenographer and assorted scientific equipment. The trip was costing Pastor Spanuth 150 marks a day and would use up most of his savings, but he thought the expense would be justified. He was after the biggest treasure of all, the glittering undersea remains of Atlantis, which he was convinced from his readings of Greek...
...Wall." The boat circled Helgoland, the rocky island and former fortress 28 miles off the Schleswig-Holstein coast. Guided by Pastor Spanuth, it moved toward shore and anchored 50 stadia (5.7 miles) from Helgoland. The diver dropped overboard and walked along the sandy bottom 30 feet below the surface...
...What do you see?" Pastor Spanuth asked him over the telephone...
...four more days of diving and note-taking, Spanuth found that his wall encircled an oval area 1,012 yards long and 328 yards across. Inside were irregularities that might very well be the ruins of buildings long covered by the sand. One of these buildings, Spanuth is convinced, will prove to be the palace of the Kings of Atlantis...