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NATIONAL ENQUIRER
Psychics Pinpoint Sunken Wreck
In 1,500 Square Miles of Ocean
Two psychics - working independently of each other
exactly pinpointed the site of an unknown 1890s' shipwreck off
the coast of California and accurately described artifacts di-
vers would find deep below the surface.
Ingo Swann and Hella Hammid astounded skeptical scientists with
their amazingly accurate psychic predictions.
"I must say we did find the
By CHARLES PARMITER
type of things that in general
berles called "Project Deep
Quest". was conducted by the
. they predicted and in the server who was aboard the | Mobius Group, an international
area where the psychics said
$3-million Taurus I research organization of -scientists and
they would be found," de- submarine when the arti- psychics headed by Stephan
clared Dr. Anne B. Kahle, an
facts were discovered. :
Schwartz. Experts from the fa-
mous Institute for Marine and
independent scientific ob-
The experiment, part of al Coastal Studies of the Univer-
sity of Southern California co-
operated in the test.
HYCO
SUBMARINE used in the shipwreck search. The psychics
led the vessel to sunken artifacts.
Swann and Hammid were
each given a chart covering
1,500 square miles of Pacific
Ocean off the California coast.
They were asked to use their
powers to pinpoint the undersea
location of an undiscovered
shipwreck, and predict what
would be found there.
"What was astounding was
that they both independently
selected the same site -- a few
hundred yards apart," said
Eugene Veek, associate direo-
tor for facilities at the Marine
Institute, and former .com-
mander of a U.S. Nary sub-
marine.
Among the sketches Hammid
SUCCESSFUL SEERS Ingo Swann and Hello Hammid at
Catalina Island during the experiment.
drew were chains, a wheel with | tually found the ship's wheel in
spokes and a strange rec-270 feet of water just the way
tangular block. Swann gave de- [Hella drew it."
scriptions of a pipe, cables,
chain and various debris.
Then divers aboard the Tau-
rus I set out to the area -- near
California's Catalina Island.
Actually, the submarine had
been in the area for five months
working with sonar, but had
found nothing to indicate
Shipwreck, socording to Allan
Witcombe, the chief pilot.
But with the psychics' maps
- and them aboard - # was a
different story.
At 170 feet below the surface,
Swann began directing the Tau-
Trus I. "He led us right to the | worked on NASA satellite pro-
"wreck and the artifacts," said
Witcombe.
"It was amazing. He directed
to one object after another.
"The predictions were aston-
chingly accurate. There were
shackles and pulleys and shifts.
There were lots of cables and
Chain and it was remarkably
pasy to identify the artifacts
from the drawings.
"It was incredible that we ac-
Yet another astonishing find
was a huge rectangular stone
block - which
looked remark-
ably like what
Hammid had
drawn. "It just
wasn't the kind
of thing anyone
would expect to
: identify with a
wTeck," claim-
SHIP'S PILOT ed Witcombe.
Al Witcombe
"It was
amazing."
Dr. Kahle, a
renowned geo-
physicist who'
grama, agreed. "We really
found a lot of unexpected things
that were similar to what were
described by the psychics."
Even a top government ma-
rine expert admitted that the
amazing accuracy of the two
psychics is astonishing. "I don't
think anyone was trying to fool
the scientists," said Thomas S.
Cooke of the U.S. Bureau of
Land Management.
Dr. Don Walsh, director of the
Institute for Marine and Coastal
Studies, evaluated Project
Deep Quest, looking for any
possible fraud.
"I'm not necessarily a sup-
porter, but I couldn't find any-
thing to cast doubt on the psy-
chics' claims," he said.
Could the find have been
"salted" - the artifacts placed
there recently?
"It would be extremely dif-
ficult to take this," said Dr.
Walsh. .
"To put things down on the
Icean floor that have allegedly
been there that long and make
them look that way would tax
the best Hollywood special ef-
dects man.
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