The most recent geological history of the Black Sea, which covers the last 25 thousand years, is a subject of special attention today. This interest is due mainly to the hypothesis we have launched about the early Holocene flood in the Black Sea. This hypothesis was a real shock to the scientific community, among whom the Bulgarian geologists and archaeologists received it with great hostility. The anathematization was accompanied by a fierce media campaign, as a result of which Prof. Robert Ballard, the discoverer of Titanic, left Bulgaria disappointed.