On the island of Tuvalu, the locals can tell you the legend of the “big house in the sea”. It was inhabited by unusual people before "the flooding of the lands”. It could remain just a beautiful fairy tale, but once two scuba divers decided to find the Tuvalunian Atlantis.

At the end of the 80s, the researchers amateurs discovered an underwater cave more than 40 meters below a coral cliff. The dark spots on the roof and walls, the darkened pieces of corals on the bottom told that somebody used fire there. First of all, it supported the legends of the islanders. Secondly, it wrecked all the theories of scientists about the inhabitance of the Pacific Ocean islands. “Fire caves” showed that the historians were mistaken for at least 2 thousand years.

Apart from the scientific mysteries and arguments, the caves give a unique opportunity to be closer to the revived legend. You can descend on a depth of almost 46 meters and get to the huge cave, which changes your conceptions about the ancient people. On the walls are dancing the black “forks of flame” left from the bonfires. On the bottom are replaced unusual stone pyramids, scattered the burned pieces of the colorful coral reefs. It seems that you got into someone's apartment, which is flooded by a neighbor from above.

The way to the mysterious cave leads through one of the most picturesque and inhabited coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. The purest water of the Funafuti Coast is full of multi-colored fish, playing with each other in the corals’ labyrinth, coconut crabs attentively examining the bottom with treasures, rare green turtles, bright sea stars and jellyfish. The reef is a specific botanical garden. This variety of seaweed of different shapes, sizes, and shades is better than any nature reserve of plants.

The underwater world of Tuvalu has many secrets that you can reveal descending there with scuba gear. 

The cave, found by scuba divers amateurs, makes to rewrite a lot of scientific works. All the solid theories of ethnographers were wrecked on its sharp walls. Previously, the scientists said that the islands of the region were inhabited about six thousand years ago. But after the discovery of the cave, these six thousand turned to eight, and then long ten thousand years.

Researchers believe that the land was inhabited by the so-called people on boats, who were expelled by other tribesmen from Indonesia and the Philippines. Ceramics, weapons and linguistic traits in the languages of the islanders prove the possibility of people living long before the moment when the water in the ocean has reached today's level.