The Exceptional Cuban Underwater City: Prehistoric Ramifications of its Origins – Part II

Submerged over 700 meters (2300 feet) underwater, the submerged Cuban city is thought to have been built originally built at a higher altitude and subsequently sunk to its present depth through tectonic activity—but this hypothesis has not stood up to the scrutiny of the experts. How can the existence of this underwater city at this great depth be reconciled with the well-established consensus that the sea level never dropped so low?

(Read Part I here)

At first glance, this seems to be impossible, for the deepest straits that connect the Caribbean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean are far deeper than 120 meters (395 feet); for instance, the Yucatan Channel, Windward Passage, and the Anegada Passage separating the Yucatan Peninsula from Cuba, Cuba from Hispaniola, and the Virgin Islands from Anguilla have maximum depths of 2800, 1700, and 1915 meters respectively (9186, 5577, 6282 feet); moreover, many of the straits and passages separating the isles of the Lesser Antilles are deeper than 120 meters. Given the fact that the sea level only fell to 120 meters below sea level, as has been previously mentioned, during the entire Pleistocene epoch, let alone during the interval within which Homo sapiens has walked this earth, it seems like an impossibility for the Caribbean Basin to have been isolated, as these straits would have been, even during the maximum drawdown of the seas, still been 2680, 1580, and 1795 meters below sea level.