Ignatius Donnelly must be flipping out in his non-watery grave. Time to reread his groundbreaking (uh, surfbreaking?) book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, which repopularized the Atlantis myth for the late 19th century.
And who do we thank for perpetuating Atlantean fandom in the 20th century? The Donovan song (with Jeff Beck solo), the John Ashley B-flick Beyond Atlantis, and one of Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt books, which is actually called Atlantis Found.