A bit about my research - Wink
Hi, I'm Wink Dinkerson (formerly of KRUTE radio) here to tell you a little about my research. I am searching for a portal to the lost city of Pacifitis. After seeking enlightenment in the harried yet subdued cloisters of long forgotten orthodox monasteries, I stumbled upon a reading from the middle ages that asserts the existence of Atlantis not in the Atlantic but in the Pacific! Also known as Pacifitis, the lost city is rumored to contain mountains of gold and a long-lost recipe for shortbread that puts the Scottish version to shame. Seeking adventure and an advantage should I ever be on the Great British Bakeoff, I re-enrolled in school and majored in Oceanography. Now in my 17th year as a part time student (self-funded, let me tell you about out-of-state tuition!), I am finally able to pursue my dream of finding Pacifitis. Just moments ago we sailed 5000 meters above what I think is the correct latitude and longitude for the secret city, and low-and-behold I think we have it!
As an aside, I'd like to thank the other students for stowing me aboard, letting me hot-bunk every night, and for secreting me meals and beverages to keep me going. If the professors knew I was here they'd just about lay an egg, with me having not sucessfully submitted a "quality" proposal (ha! they have no spirit of adventure).
At any rate, before I leave the ship in my home-built submersible and dive to the deepest depths of the semi-tropical Pacific, let me explain what I found. In his book "Lost City of Stones" Ballinger states nothing about Pacifitis, instead focusing on the other lost city of Nan Madol (worth a visit, it's not lost anymore and it's still somewhat above water level). Ignoring his silence, I forged on and found secret maps suggesting Pacifitis to be somewhere beyond the pillars of Hercules, and within a 6000 square kilometer patch of the north Pacific. Intrigued by unidentifiable plastic debris floating above the site, I used the web to discover the truth about some of the so-called plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - it's from Pacifitis! Here in this blog I have exclusively uploaded some images from the ship's bottom surveying equipment and I think you will agree that the sonar imaging sure looks like the citadel tops of the long lost city of Pacifitis.
I've assembled a small submersible using skills I learned in Ocean 361 (Ocean Technology) and by 'borrowing' some arduinos and thrusters from the design-build lab. I have enough oxygen to last me for days, and in a moment I will sneak off the back deck and submerge myself in search of glory. Wish me luck!
-Wink
Legend: A) secret path of ship over the site B) sonar based evidence for the existence of the lost city at the location of a charted but unnamed (until now!) bathymetric feature. C) a subfeature securing the location, probably used as an outpost or lookout station, D) the famed "walkway across the moat" which you found to be remote once past the moat, still as described in the ancient texts (!!), E) sonogram of seismic proportions, F) snapshot from the ship's security system and lo- you don't see me, Wink, because I am like a whisper, a ghost, a wink... and G) artist's rendering of the channels of Pacifitis where the noble roundwalkers were found smoking their shamrock pipes and lyrically seeking unity and world peace (alas, not to be had in their lifetimes).
