Blog 12: Discovering Atlantis

Hearing the different legends and reading the different dialogues of Plato about the lost island of Atlantis, a fable island in the Atlantic that according to legend sink beneath the sea, is an eagerness to see it so I have come up to an idea that my greatest vacation is to discover the island and experience a new vacation. First, I need to buy a fabulous, gargantuan and newest version of submarine that can pass through the different obstacles that it may encounter during the voyage. Inside it is not the typical submarine interior, but like a modern house with fully equipped kitchen, hi-tech entertainment vicinity, dazzling bathroom, comfortable bedroom, and especially a trustable control room of the submarine that will give me an ambiance of just soothing in a house. After preparing stuffs for the journey, then I will choose a crew for me to have a comfortable voyage in finding the lost island. I opt to get an international chef that can serve me scrumptious foods, a trustworthy captain together with the marine engineer and the other staffs that gives me a tranquil journey, and the mot significant, a very long-suffering personal assistant. Then, the exploring has begun. As the submarine slowly going under the deeper part of the ocean, I have the opportunity to see the creatures on the window in my bedroom. I have seen a school of fishes, nemo-like fishes, scary creatures, the ever-dangerous sharks and the immense whales. The ever-challenging part is finding the exact place of the Atlantis and base on what I have read there is a certain mermaid-like creature that can lead us to the place. In remembering these details, I then realize that I know a sea creature that supports the given description, "dugong". The searching of the creature takes us a longer time, but unexpectedly, the captain has seen a shadow that shapes like a mermaid. As we get closer, it is clear that it is the "dugong", and then, we chase the sea creature. After, the "dugong" brings us to a very strange, dark place, and then rapidly, a light has flashed brightly. Then, I have seen the island of Atlantis and I get out of the submarine wearing a diving suit and having the tank of oxygen. I examine the island’s destroyed statues, classical structures and the different old stuffs of the people who lived there proving a vanished civilization. Around the island are the sea creatures like crabs and various kind of fishes.I get inside in one of the old building; there I have seen artworks like the ruined paintings. I find a tablet with some sort of drawings and I bring the tablet as I get back to the submarine. As we go back to the land, I have been studying the tablet and with the drawings, I understand why the Atlantis is lost. Through my new way of having my vacation, I am able to explain the sinking of Atlantis beneath the sea.