A Scientist Says a Baffling Seafloor Structure Marks Japan’s Atlantis ^42.9%

Popular Mechanics - By Darren Orf - 7/8/2026, 12:30 PM

Appeal to Authority 35.5% - Appeal to Emotion 20.3% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 18.5%

In 1986, while searching for new hammerhead shark viewing points off the coast of Yonaguni Island—the westernmost Japanese island, 70 miles east of Taiwan—diving tour guide Kihachiro Aratake stumbled across an inexplainable underwater formation. The rocky seafloor structure consists of rocks shaped at nearly perfect 90-degree angles,... more