W. Sheppard Baird is an American researcher and the author of a number of articles on the Minoan civilisation, which can be read on his website(a). He writes on the maritime expertise of the Minoans and their colonisation of Spain. Baird has also incorporated his knowledge of the Minoans into an historical novel, The Minoan Psychopath.
Baird added an interesting paper(b) on the possible use by the Minoans of a signalling system bronze mirrors reflecting sunlight between the mountain peaks of Crete!
Perhaps even more important is his essay(c) debunking of the theory that a tsunami resulting from the 2nd millennium BC eruption of Thera destroyed the Minoan civilisation on Crete and proposes instead that it was in fact more likely to have been a pyroclast surge from the same source.
Unfortunately, in spite of the name of his website, Baird makes no direct reference to Atlantis.
(a) http://www.minoanatlantis.com
(b) http://www.minoanatlantis.com/Minoan_Mirror_Web.php
(c) http://www.minoanatlantis.com/Sinking_Atlantis_Myth.php
