Divers from Crimea announced a sensational find - they found the ruins of an ancient settlement at the bottom of the Black Sea, REN-TV reports. According to the journalist, one of the members of the underwater expedition told about the find on his social page, who accompanied his post with appropriate pictures.
“For two years we have been looking for settlements that were submerged due to the global Black Sea disaster. And now the first finds were found in the area of the Shtormovoye village, Saki region,”the channel quotes the diver's statement.
Divers are convinced that the buildings they found at the bottom of the sea are the remains of an ancient city that went under water many thousands of years ago. They believe that the settlement was under water due to the formation of the Bosphorus, when the Mediterranean waters poured into the Black Sea.
However, as the portal "News of Crimea" informs, Sergei Kazannik, director of the Black Sea Center for Underwater Research, refutes information about the discovery of a sunken city at the bottom of the Black Sea. He explained that the employees of his Center had not found any flooded city in the Saki region and did not conduct any underwater research in that area at all.
He considers the divers' message to be nothing more than a newspaper duck. Kuzannik expressed confidence that this "stuffing" was deliberately done by residents of the village of Shtormovoye, in order to attract tourists interested in historical finds to their settlement in the midst of the summer season.
The head of the department also spoke about another find found in the Leninsky district, not far from the village of Naberezhnoe. There, in the Black Sea, the remains of the former port settlement of the ancient Greeks - Acre, which is also called the "Atlantis of Crimea", were discovered. Now, the study of the ancient city, existing from the end of the VI century BC. e. to IV century AD e., experts are engaged.
However, the fact that the Center's specialists did not conduct underwater research in the Saki region does not mean at all that there is no sunken ancient city there. The expedition in that area could well have been carried out by amateur divers, who discovered an ancient settlement long gone under water.