He explained that he needed to work out arrangements with museums and the Bahamian government to protect the site before its location was made public. Du Val planned a press conference for July 25, promising full disclosure and presentation of video tapes and photographs of the ruins. Du Val's claims garnered a stern rebuke from Dr. Paul Pettennude, an underwater archaeologist with the Maya Underwater Research Center, who is intimately familiar with the waters around Bimini. In a statement issued to New Heaven New Earth, he listed several reasons why nothing like the ruins Du Val describes could possibly exist. It is a very, very popular resort destination and thousands of divers visit it every year.
Every available reef is dived frequently and nothing else has turned up.
Every square foot of bottom down to 6,000 feet was examined and every piece of the wreck larger than a dinner plate was recovered. It paints a picture of everything from the bottom up. This is the level to which the water rose at the end of the last ice age. There could not be a sunken city because the Bahama Islands are not shrinking but actually growing inches per year. There are only a handful of people in the world trained and certified to dive these research blends.