When the Sun aligns with the direct center or “Angel Point” of sidereal Scorpio, the Point of Elemental Water can be expected to manifest near or somewhere deep in the Japan Trench off the coast of Japan. The next PoEW is on 02 Dec 2010. On 02 Dec 2011, the AM47 ship is scheduled to be situated over the Japan Trench to observe & celebrate Elemental Water. Then the ship will continue its circumnavigation of the globe to arrive back in San Francisco on 01 Sep 2012 to complete the circle. After that, AM47 will again set sail in late Sep 2012 for Alert, Nunavut and the top of the world for the Point of Elemental AEther and the Gateway of Arcturus on 17 Oct 2012.
Here are some particularly Watery facts about the Japan Trench:
1. There are a few undersea ruins of “lost civilizations” off the east coast of Pacific-Asian countries.
Sunken ruins of Yonaguni-Jima, Japan
2. The Japan Trench is the northern extension of the Mariana Trench which is the deepest point in the ocean and the world.
Japan Trench
3. Jaques Piccard and Don Walsh made history in 1960 with Challenger Deep when they journeyed to the bottom of the sea in their bathysphere submarine near the Point of Water.
Challenger Deep
4. Adventurer Steve Fosset (R.I.P.) had planned to make history again in 2008 with Ocean Everest, which was to pilot the civilian mini-sub DeepFlight II to the bottom of the sea, also near the Point of Water.
Hawkes Ocean Technologies in Oakland, CA makes ‘sub-jets’ capable of reaching the bottom of the sea.
5. In 2008, scientists filmed the deepest ever living fish near the Point of Water.
The deepest fish ever filmed (so far) were in the Japan Trench in 2008.
6. In 2008, scientists discovered a triangular tectonic plate that threatens to destroy Tokyo is located near the Point of Water.
Giant triangular plate fragment threatens Tokyo, Japan
7. The Cove was released in Aug 2009. This Academy Award winning documentary is helping to end dolphin (and whale) slaughter in Taiji Bay, Japan (and other locations along the coast of Japan and the Arctic) which is near the Point of Elemental Water.
Point of Air action: Black Sands – a new documentary about Turkmenistan and the deep roots of monotheism. There is a previously unknown Bronze-Age civilization deep in the cobra-infested Kara Kum (Black Sands) Desert in Turkmenistan. Battling sand-storms and intense isolation, archeologist Viktor Sarianidi uncovers a city where the dead were disposed through ritual excarnation and astrologer-priests consumed hallucinogenic ritual drinks over 4,000 years ago. Is it the motherland of Zoroastrianism ~ an ancient Indo-Iranian religion that was later to strongly influence Judaism and hence Christianity and Islam. This place also happens to be the Point of Elemental Air in ALTER MaN 4 7.
Jack F. is a hippie samurai Zoroastrian swimming to Atlantis.
His story really began in 2006 when he had a Vision Dream involving a voyage around the globe by sea. Since then, most of his free creative time (aka. Real Life) goes into producing the story of this dream and cultivating the astonishing Synchronicity bourne of it.
ALTER MAN 47 