Just to clarify

Someone asked me about the item I posted the other day about "finding Atlantis" off Cyprus, specifically that I mentioned my own opinion as to what version of the location of Atlantis I find most likely. So, just in case, let me make clear what I believe on the matter: I believe there was probably an "Atlantis" in the sense of there having been some early city, perhaps impressive for its day, that was destroyed in some kind of cataclysm, possibly a flood. I also believe the tale got bigger and bigger as it got passed on and down until by the time Plato got it, Atlantis was some impossibly advanced, noble, civilization and that much of what he hear of its glories are the products of fertile imaginations. It's my lay interest in archaeology that gets me interested in some of the notions as to where the "real" Atlantis stood.

How many times have researchers previously claimed to have discovered the vanished island-state?

Oodles — and that's not even counting the numerous psychics and crackpot "Atlantologists" who've placed the city everywhere from Nicaragua to Ceylon.

You might enjoy reading the rest of the linked article - and he doesn't even get to the South China Sea idea!