List of French authors . -And. Cousteau and . Pakkale "In Search of Atlantis" and the Soviet writer V. and . Shcherbakova, "The Golden Palace of Poseidon" complement each other. J. -And. Cousteau, a well-known French oceanologist, puts forward a “Mediterranean” hypothesis linking the death of Atlantis with a volcanic catastrophe that occurred in ancient times on the Mediterranean Sea. The story is based on the richest material of real underwater research. In. and . Shcherbakov considers the "Atlantic" hypothesis, which assumes the existence of a continent in the Atlantic Ocean His story is based on the analysis of legends, historical and modern scientific materials.