Best-selling British author and television presenter Graham Hancock took these stories seriously. The hypothesis that there may be ruins underwater off the coast of Mahabalipuram has been around at least since the eighteenth century among scholarly circles.
I have long regarded Mahabalipuram, because of its flood myths and fishermens sightings as a very likely place in which discoveries of underwater structures could be made, and I proposed that a diving expedition should be undertaken there, said Hancock.
Hancocks initiative resulted in the Dorset, England-based Scientific Exploration Society and Indias National Institute of Oceanography joining hands. In April this year, the team made a spectacular discovery