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The paper studies a problem from the oceanography, with applications in coastal practice, namely the interaction of floating and immersed bodies with uneven bottom topography. The authors consider a water layer \(D\) bounded above by the free surface \(\partial D_F\) and below by a rigid bottom \(\partial D_\pi\). The bathymetry is characterized by straight parallel bottom contours lying between two regions of constant but different depths. The water motion is caused by a pulsating monochromatic point source of angular freuqency \(\omega\) located at a point of variable bathymetry region, and the homogeneous fluid is supposed to be inviscid and incompressible. For the mathematical formulation of the problem, the authors decompose the fluid domain into three subdomains: domain \(D^{(1)}\) of a constant depth \(h_1\), domain, \(D^{(3)}\) of a constant depth \(h_3\), \(h_1> h_3\), and domain \(D^{(2)}\) with variable bathymetry between \(D^{(1)}\) and \(D^{(3)}\). Because the elevation of the free surface and the velocity field are small, the linearized water wave equations can be used, and the velocity field can be represented by the velocity potential \(\text{Re}\{\phi(x,y,z,\mu) \exp(- i\omega t)\}\), where \(\mu\) is the frequency parameter \(\mu= \omega^2/g\), and \(\phi\) satisfies the equation \(\nabla^2\phi= -\delta(x- x_0)\) and the conditions \(\partial\phi/\partial z- \mu\phi= 0\) on the free surface and \(\partial\phi/\partial n= 0\) on the bottom. The authors solve this boundary value problem approximately, taking Fourier transform with respect to the depth coordinate and reformulating the problem as a transmission problem in the domain \(D^{(2)}\). This transmission problem admits a variational formulation and is equivalent to a system of second-order ordinary differential equations. The numerical results are presented in a table and in some plots. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00077].