Wave Atlantis

[Rosita Westhouse]

Heyguys and girls been a long time... so ill jump right in I VERY recently got my hands in a atlantis wave machine and am already looking to sell, wondering what the going market is these days and if anyone is interested and so on. Ill probably just be doing eBay with it but figured id drum up some interest here first. thanks and if any one has any questions feel free to ask...

That's one of the more rare wave machines and a few years ago, they were going for hundreds. Not sure what the market is now. There's a guy on here - Hughes Wave Machines - if you can find him and contact him, he might be able to tell you what the going rate, and/or be interested in buying it.

Keep your family active this summer at Atlantis Swim and Sports Complex. With large swimming pools, exercise facilities and sports fields, our public recreation center is the perfect place to hang out, get fit and have fun. You can host birthday parties, join our night swim or play a round of mini-golf any day of the week.

Forget the days of watching tv and playing video games all summer. Bring your family to Atlantis Swim and Sports Complex for a summer full of:

Family-friendly pool activities Endless access to acres of ball fieldsLaughter and memories you'll never forget

We offer daily passes and seasonal memberships. Stop by any day of the week to enjoy our public swim and sports center. We're conveniently located just south of the Highway 60 bypass on the corner of Tamarack and Carter.

For over 30 years, Atlantis Swim and Sports Complex has given the town of Owensboro, KY a place to gather and play. We are the largest sports complex in our area, offering over four acres of fun. From pickup basketball games to floating in the wave pool, our activity center offers you a summer full of fun.

Please note, no outside food or outside food deliveries are allowed.

Skip the rush-apply for your seasonal family membership today. Call 270-683-1200 to ask about pricing.

The legend of Atlantis, the country that disappeared under the sea, may be more than just a myth. Research on the Greek island of Crete suggests Europe's earliest civilisation was destroyed by a giant tsunami.

Video reconstruction of the tsunami Until about 3,500 years ago, a spectacular ancient civilisation was flourishing in the Eastern Mediterranean. The ancient Minoans were building palaces, paved streets and sewers, while most Europeans were still living in primitive huts. But around 1500BC the people who spawned the myths of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth abruptly disappeared. Now the mystery of their cataclysmic end may finally have been solved. The wave would have been as powerful as the one that devastated the coastlines of Thailand and Sri Lanka on Boxing day 2004 leading to the loss of over 250,000 lives A group of scientists have uncovered new evidence that the island of Crete was hit by a massive tsunami at the same time that Minoan culture disappeared."The geo-archaeological deposits contain a number of distinct tsunami signatures," says Dutch-born geologist Professor Hendrik Bruins of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. "Minoan building material, pottery and cups along with food residue such as isolated animal bones were mixed up with rounded beach pebbles and sea shells and microscopic marine fauna. The Santorini eruption may have sparked the tsunami"The latter can only have been scooped up from the sea-bed by one mechanism - a powerful tsunami, dumping all these materials together in a destructive swoop," says Professor Bruins.The deposits are up to seven metres above sea level, well above the normal reach of storm waves. "An event of ferocious force hit the coast of Crete and this wasn't just a Mediterranean storm," says Professor Bruins.Big waveThe Minoans were sailors and traders. Most of their towns were along the coast, making them especially vulnerable to the effects of a tsunami. One of their largest settlements was at Palaikastro on the eastern edge of the island, one of the sites where Canadian archaeologist Sandy MacGillivray has been excavating for 25 years.Here, he has found other tell-tale signs such as buildings where the walls facing the sea are missing but side walls which could have survived a giant wave are left intact. "All of a sudden a lot of the deposits began making sense to us," says MacGillivary."Even though the town of Palaikastro is a port it stretched hundreds of metres into the hinterland and is, in places, at least 15 metres above sea level. This was a big wave."How it might have looked as the wave approached the townBut if this evidence is so clear why has it not been discovered before now?Tsunami expert Costas Synolakis, from the University of Southern California, says that the study of ancient tsunamis is in its infancy and people have not, until now, really known what to look for. Many scientists are still of the view that these waves only blasted material away and did not leave much behind in the way of deposits. But observation of the Asian tsunami of 2004 changed all that. "If you remember the video footage," says Costas, "some of it showed tonnes of debris being carried along by the wave and much of it was deposited inland."Volcanic eruptionCostas Synolakis has come to the conclusion that the wave would have been as powerful as the one that devastated the coastlines of Thailand and Sri Lanka on Boxing day 2004 leading to the loss of over 250,000 lives. After decades studying the Minoans, MacGillivray is struck by the scale of the destruction. "The Minoans are so confident in their navy that they're living in unprotected cities all along the coastline. Now, you go to Bande Aceh [in Indonesia] and you find that the mortality rate is 80%. If we're looking at a similar mortality rate, that's the end of the Minoans."But what caused the tsunami? The scientists have obtained radiocarbon dates for the deposits that show the tsunami could have hit the coast at exactly the same time as an eruption of the Santorini volcano, 70 km north of Crete, in the middle of the second millennium BC.The Minoans were Europe's first great civilisation Recent scientific work has established that the Santorini eruption was up to 10 times more powerful than the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. It caused massive climatic disruption and the blast was heard over 3000 miles away.Costas Synolakis thinks that the collapse of Santorini's giant volcanic cone into the sea during the eruption was the mechanism that generated a wave large enough to destroy the Minoan coastal towns.It is not clear if the tsunami could have reached inland to the Minoan capital at Knossos, but the fallout from the volcano would have carried other consequences - massive ash falls and crop failure. With their ports, trading fleet and navy destroyed, the Minoans would never have fully recovered.The myth of Atlantis, the city state that was lost beneath the sea, was first mentioned by Plato over 2000 years ago. It has had a hold on the popular imagination for centuries. Perhaps we now have an explanation of its origin - a folk memory of a real ancient civilisation swallowed by the sea.Timewatch: The wave that destroyed Atlantis is on BBC Two at 2100BST on Friday 20 April, 2007.

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Ian Walsh, Sam Hammer, and Mike Gleason recently made a trip with Redbull to a slab they named Atlantis, off the coast of the Northeast. The wave has been compared to a mini Cortes Bank, the mountain of a wave 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, coming out of deep water and breaking onto a reef. Taking a boat to the middle of nowhere to surf a phantom wave is a gamble that ended up paying off for the crew.

The water park used to hold marine animal shows and you can still see the tanks where they used to hold them. Right next to the park is a water slide park, where the slides and wave pool are now covered in graffiti. The two parks are often both referred to as Atlantis, although they are technically different businesses. The water slide park originally opened as La Ola, and was later bought out by a company called El Rollo.

They are located in the third section of Chapultepec Park, or Bosque de Chapultepec. If you are familiar with Mexico City, you know that this section is very far from the main area of the park. It almost feels forgotten, as there are other abandoned areas, few people, and denser forest. It is not recommended to go here alone, especially at night.

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