I must have missed something, but I haven't heard of any ruins being discovered recently in the Atlantic. I've heard about the ones near Japan in the Pacific, but not the Atlantic.
However, as sea levels were about 100 feet lower towards the end of the last Ice Age, Stone Age settlements may well have existed in these coastal regions, and been destroyed in the Quarternary (Ice Age) Extinction Event.
Also, sea levels have varied by as much as 40 feet over the last 8000 years (we're now at a high point - but there have been significant downs as well as ups over the millennia) and many ancient coastal settlements from many different ages are now under the sea... but many of these date back only a few centuries. For example, circa 1400 AD, sea-levels were at one of their lowest points in recorded history, about 15-16 feet below where they are now: the Bimini Road was above water; Florida, Cuba and Haiti were significantly larger; and many of the Bahamas were connected to their neighbors.
The point is, that until the ruins can be dated, conjectures about them having anything to do with Atlantis are wildly unjustified (particularly since a cataclysm on the scale Plato describes wouldn't have left much of anything standing; and after 5000+ years under water on the continental shelfs, even most stones would have been ground into sand and pebbles, or engulfed by coral, silt, or marine life.
FYI, The Minoan "Empire" was not Atlantis - at least as Plato described it, nor was it the source/inspiration of the legend. Plato was clear that the Egyptian sources spoke of SEVERAL periods of civilization that had each been destroyed in a cataclism. Atlantis was merely the most glorious of them all; and the one that had the most terrible fall. Other factors in the account suggest that the Egyptian sources were aware of the Minoan collapse, and that this came well after Atlantis. It is quite possible, however, that the cataclysm that befell Crete & Santorini (and indeed the whole eastern Mediterranean) probably resulted in stories about it getting confused and entwined with Atlantean legends.
If Atlantis (as described by Plato) existed, it had to have been destroyed in the Quarternary (Ice Age) Extinction Event about 8000 BC. Its location was most likely in Antarctica: it fits Plato's description, including the oft omitted statment that after being swallowed by the sea, it was buried under Ice. The theory that the Poles shifted catastrophically at that time explains how it was habital before the cataclism.
(If you doubt the Axis shifted, look at the pattern of glacial lakes on a globe: you'll see they form a circle around the southern tip of Greenland, indicating that that was the Geographic North Pole at the end of the last Ice Age. This would put much of Antarctica into the Sub-Arctic and Temperate zones.)
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