万花筒 Kaleidoscope 2007-03-04&06, 埋藏在深海中的城市

No one knows if the Lost City of the Atlantis is real or just a myth. But there are some folks in Florida just off the coast of Miami have decided¹ to build their own Atlantis. Part of it is already in place, and we sent NBC's Kerry Sanders 45 feet down to check it out. Good morning, Kerry.

Oh, good morning, this is the gate here to the mythical² city of Atlantis. It will cover eventually an entire 16 acres, a huge underwater area, in fact, it will be the largest of its type, costing almost 15 million dollars. How do ya pay for something like that? Well, as the Mafia says, first you gotta swim with the fishes.

In the blue green waters just off the Key Biscayne Florida, the Lost City is under construction. More than 30,000 tons of artwork, including bronze sculpted³ lions, placed in a precise layout and artists' vision of Atlantis all possible because of what will eventually be cemented into those holes, cremated⁴ remains⁵. We are not a cemetery⁶, we are a memorial, and so a memorial city. This is all concrete.

Businessman Gary Levine figures selling underwater plots would no only pay for this project; it'll also turn a heavenly profit.

With the average cost 2000 dollars and 80,000 sets of cremated remains, we're looking at about 160 million dollars.

Cookie idea? You see this, right here, was a big sailfish⁷. N. Laverne Smith who was surrounded her living days with treasures from the sea, at 80 years old, she and her husband bought two plots in Atlantis to continue that theme in the afterlife.

We kind of want in somewhere if our grandchildren and great-grandchildren wanted to come and pay their respect and say hi grannie and papa, they could.

Sculpting⁸ this undersea world, artist King Brandout. He says to get this far required environmental approvals from 8 federal state and local government agencies.

If you are lucky enough to get passed all the obstacles, you can make the dream come true. This is one of those examples right here, here and now.

So your ready-made-market in your mind is what? Baby booms?
Baby boomers.
Because? Because there are 50,000 people are weak and dying in United States. And baby boomers are looking for something different? Something very different and money is not the question mark.

And so the cost to be buried here is about twice a normal funeral but for somebody who wants something completely different, I guess this is it. Once a guy might know guys, it is open free for divers⁹ anytime you wanna come.

Ha, that's a little weird¹⁰. Yeah, why not, dive the memorial today...

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 mythical   

adj.神话的；虚构的；想像的

参考例句：

• Undeniably,he is a man of mythical status.不可否认，他是一个神话般的人物。
• Their wealth is merely mythical.他们的财富完全是虚构的。

3 sculpted   

adj.经雕塑的

参考例句：

• a display of animals sculpted in ice 冰雕动物展
• The ladies had their hair sculpted by the leading coiffeur of the day. 女士们的发型都是当代有名的理发师做的。

4 cremated   

v.火葬，火化（尸体）( cremate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He wants to is cremated, not buried. 他要火葬，不要土葬。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The bodies were cremated on the shore. 他们的尸体在海边火化了。 来自辞典例句

5 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

6 cemetery   

n.坟墓，墓地，坟场

参考例句：

• He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
• His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。

7 sailfish   

n.旗鱼，姥鲛

参考例句：

• The state offers a huge variety of fish,from largemouth bass to sailfish.这里出产非常多种鱼类，从阔嘴黑鲈到旗鱼等不一而足。
• A fine start to the day,and my first sailfish on a fly.这一天的开局不错，这也是我第一次用飞杆钓到旗鱼。

8 sculpting   

雕刻( sculpt的现在分词 )； 雕塑； 做（头发）； 梳（发式）

参考例句：

• The quality of the result is determined by a Craft( sculpting) check. 由手艺（刻）定决定结果质量如何。
• Another difficulty in the process of ice sculpting is time control. 冰雕过程中的另一项困难是时间的掌控。

9 divers   

adj.不同的；种种的

参考例句：

• He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
• Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。

10 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。