This is a story about a families adventure and their discovery of another world within our own. It's up to you to believe it or not, but it will make you think. A fun expedition from the world we know to a paradise that is right here, literally under our nose, but unseen or known about mankind.

HIDDEN DIMENSIONS

VOLUMES 1 AND 2 - THE COMPLETE STORYBy DAN WEINSTEIN

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Copyright © 2011 Dan Weinstein
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ISBN: 978-1-4490-9866-7

Chapter One

HIDDEN DIMENSIONS

The story opens to show on the "History Channel" with how the earth's land mass thousands of years ago was much greater than it is today. Underwater divers have discovered roads, buildings, temple's, statues and many other artifacts off the coast lines of Japan, Florida, Puget Sound and many other locations. That may lead one to believe these articles we're not placed there, but that life forms or colonies resided there long before the oceans rose from the melting glaciers and people we're force to leave, due to the rising waters. In many areas, as waters rose and the low lands became covered, the high lands became what are now islands or continents. What life existed in those areas now became landlocked.

With the finding of so many artifacts, the quest for the discovery of 'Atlantis' seems more likely then ever before. Through discovery, from time to time, we have found gasses that percolate up from the ocean floor. With the examination of these gasses, scientists have duplicated this situation to find while gasses are emitting up from the ocean floor, could remove not only buoyant objects on the surface, but as gasses continue traveling upward into the sky flying objects such as birds and aircraft would possibly loose there ability of flight from the thinness of the air. Over hundreds of years many ships have been reported missing never to be seen again and in the same general areas starting in the late 40's. It has been documented in actual cases where military aircraft reported being disoriented, electric compasses spinning in circles and engines losing their power due to lack of oxygen. During these events radio signals became garbled signals had come in with 'mayday' distress calls then total silence. Many similar water craft signals came in with the very same conditions. In these cases rescue ships and planes were dispatched within minutes. In many cases the rescue teams that had responded became lost and never returned as well. With the advancement of technology over the last 40 years or so, the recovery of some of the missing crafts have been found on the ocean floor with no signs of human remains. It was speculated at that time a prior rescue must have been made, however on both aircraft and ships escape hatches were closed and flotation devices were still aboard and intact. Again to mention, the majority of these finds seemed to be located in the same general location. Several of these locations have been given names such as Japanese Triangle, Bermuda Triangle, and Dragon's triangle. Needless to mention the amount of dollars spent in the search by not only the military, but private enterprise as well. Hundreds of books and articles have been published on the theories of these events, when a recovery was ever made, (mostly years later) but never has an actual fact ever been recorded. It is a well known fact that billions of dollars have been spent on the research of 'what is out there', 'how it got there', 'how to get there', as well as, 'how the earth got here'. However, less than 10% of the dollars spent researching outer space has been spent on research to locate what may lie on this world's oceans floor.

It is also a well known fact with the advancement of technology, as far as it has advanced in the last 100 years, could a craft be constructed to travel the universe in discovery of other planets, as the travel time for such an adventure would take a very long time, possibly even years, not to mention the stress on the crew members by being gone that amount of time, and away from their homes and families. What if one of the crew took ill or was injured? Who would care for them? You would definitely need the availability of a qualified medical team and additional crew members with the ability to take over the duties of the disabled crew member's position or duties By knowing all the possibilities of what may occur during such a long flight, you wouldn't need much of a degree to realize just how large of a craft would be required for a voyage of that magnitude. Not to mention the billions of dollars required to create such an undertaking.

33 YEARS AGO

Here we find a family of seven, whom for many years have shared a common interest, that which being, what lies beneath the ocean's surface. With most families of today, it seems to be a very rare occasion to find one with a common or even similar interest. You might, from time to time, find a family that owns a farm or ranch or even a restaurant in which they all grew up working there together, but like I mentioned prior, it's a very rare situation. Normally, as each member of the family becomes of age, you will find them either going off to college or finding jobs that are quite a distance from home, or getting married and either themselves or their spouses could possibly be relocated to another state. Well in our family it just so happens to be one of those rare cases.

We call them the 'Weinstein Family' the father's name is Dan, his wife Rhonda, followed by their children, the oldest is named after his dad, Danny, then comes Jadene, Jill, Philip and the youngest Nicole, all being just a few years apart in age. It may be hard to say if they all had the same goals, or simply followed in their parents footsteps, however, they all enjoyed the oceans of this world plus the excitement of what new discovery may lie at its floor.

While Dan and Rhonda's basic interest was Oceanography (the study of many facets, from the content of what pollutants come from oil spills to factory waste, erosion, animals of discovery, sunken ships, plains, depths, craters, volcano's and currents). The children Danny, Jadene, Jill, Philip and Nicole were involved in the study of "Geology, Petrology and Mineralogy" (the scientific study of the origin, history and structure of the solid matter of mineralogy, "Crystallography" inorganic chemistry, "Geochemistry" Petrology and Geology are connected in the domain of crystal chemistry)

This family would never miss a chance to vacation together, which was always focused around "Scuba Diving", from Hawaii, Costa Rica, Cancun, Cozumel, The Cayman Islands, Belize plus many other seldom visited areas of the globe.

While diving in the waters off the coast of Belize, an area called "The Blue Hole" really caught their interest. The Blue Hole was once an underwater cavern that collapsed many years ago. It is speculated that before its collapse it contained air and was thought to have tunnels stemming from the inner rim with connecting tunnels reaching far beneath the mainland, but this was never really proven. The size of this giant 'Blue hole' is approximately 480 feet deep and about ¼ mile wide.

THE QUEST BEGINS

With discovery of the Blue Hole and the existence of so many other similar areas, the Weinstein family had an overwhelming and burning desire to pursue other new areas that were not yet discovered. On almost every diving adventure, there was a discussion of being able to design or build an underwater craft that would be able to drop beneath the surface of the ocean far enough to observe a much greater depth than a submergible has been able to achieve so far. Till this time the design of the submergible did not have the structural ability that was able to descend to the depths required due to the tremendous water pressure against the hull,...