Could Antarctica be linked to Lake Baikal?

 Science Fiction

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While the prospect of the link appears unimagine, and beyond the realm of Jules Verne, possibly, remember his famous story "Journey to the centre of the Earth," perhaps it isn't that fantastical, after all.

In 1972,Jacques Cousteau led an expedition to Antarctica, during which he disappeared for two days, never saying where he went, or who he saw. During that dive, he and several divers dived to their limits, and found an aircraft carrier bearing a sign in German, it is known that Germany was trying to form a base in the Antarctic, against the United Nations policies of the 1930's, to dominate the Atlantic Ocean. 

Of the divers who went down, though they came back shaken, only one spoke of it again, he died within days of telling his story to a local paper in France. Cousteau was haunted by something he saw, he petitioned Russia for 18 years to dive Lake Baikal, after the fall of the USSR, he got his wish. On his return, all he said to his wife was "I was right," he died 3 days later. The area of the dive in Antartica is ow under contstant guard by the USA.

In 2003, a team of Russian divers explored deeper in Lake Baikal, they found a strange tunnel going deeper than they could dive, on their return, they were so shaken, nobody spoke for years. When one man did, to a local paper, he died within days of telling what he saw. A remotely operated vehicle was sent to find the truth, at 1,600 metres contact was lost, one sent to recover the rov was also lost without seeing its target.

Both sets of divers reported seeing a vessel travelling at around 600KMP, closing in, then dropping down, straight, to over 1,000 metres.

A drone sent by China, in 2017, recored lights from under the ice, before crashing into the deep waters, lost to time. The bottom of the lake is recorded as being lower than the crust of the Earth, and the lake is reported to be the oldest on the planet, yet slowly, it is seperating.

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