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Then, through the water, he heard Summer utter a distorted squeal He kicked upward and was stunned when he broke the surface of the water into an air pocket He looked up as Suly chiseled stones fit tightly together without mortar

"What have we got here?" Dirk spoke through his underwater communications system

"It's either a freak of nature or an ancient man-made vault," Summer murmured in awe

"This is no freak of nature"

"It e"

"That was ten thousand years ago Impossible to be that ancient More likely, the vault sank during an earthquake like the one that struck Port Royal, Jamaica, the pirate haven that slipped into the sea after a massive tremor in sixteen ninety-two"

"Could it be a forgotten ghost city?" asked Su

Dirk shook his head "Unless there is ut instinct is this was some sort of temple"

"Built by ancient natives of the Caribbean?"

"I doubt it Archaeologists have found no evidence of stone masonry in the West Indies before Colue a bronze urn This was built by a different culture, a lost and unknown civilization"

"Not another Atlantis myth," Summer said sarcastically

"No, Dad and Al put that to rest in the Antarctic several years ago"

"Seems incredible that ancient peoples of Europe sailed across the ocean and built a temple on a coral reef"

Dirk slowly ran his gloved hand on one wall "Navidad Reef was probably an island back then"

"When you think about it," said Su air thousands of years old"