Richard Wingate (1933-2011) was described by Andrew Collins as a ‘maverick mineral prospector and explorer’^(a). His search for Atlantis brought him to Ecuador where he was enchanted by the so-called Crespi Collection leading him to speculate on a possible link between it and lost Atlantis. He subsequently shifted his attention to the Bahamas where he claimed to have discovered Atlantean structures in shallow waters. He detailed his discoveries in his first book^[059].

Wingate published his second book, Atlantis in the Amazon^[771] in June 2011. In it he returned to a further consideration of the Crespi Collection and its place in the theory of a South American/Caribbean Atlantis. He also discusses ‘ancient technologies’, including his most startling claim is that Atlantis was destroyed by a prehistoric nuclear war between the Aryans and the Atlanteans. A minor detail overlooked by Plato!

^(a) http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/stones.htm