Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:qisbvj01ds7@drn.newsguy.com:
> https://pictorial.jezebel.com/the-guy-who-found-the-titanic-is-looking-
> for-amelia-ear-1837170549
>
> Robert Ballard, the man who found the Titanic, is now searching for
>
> The New York Times reported that Ballard has always wanted to find the
> any more than a futile dive into a haystack hunting for a needle. But
> then, in 2012, somebody showed Ballard a picture taken in 1937 off
> Nikumaroro Island, one of the longstanding contenders for a likely
> Earhart crash site, that seems to show a piece of Lockheed Model 10-E
> Electra landing gear sticking up out of the water.
>
> That was enough of a clue that Ballard is turning his attention to the
> lot of very fancy gear. But this is no Sunday morning stroll, even for
> Ballard:
>
> Viewed from above, Nikumaroro is small and flat. But the island is
> only the plateau of a steep underwater mountain rising 10,000 feet
> from the ocean floor. Earhart landed on the very edge of the island,
> Dr. Ballard believes. As tides rose, her plane may have slipped down
> the underwater slope.
>
> that can hinder sonar. After using onboard technology to create a 3-D
> map of its sides, the team will have to search the mountain visually,
>
> the fact that the mystery of Amelia Earhart is essentially solved, but
> it would be very impressive, and it would also rescue the world from
> the endless cycle of speculative reports about whether somebody
> the Titanic in like two weeks after completing the real mission, which
> was to find a couple of sunken nuclear submarines from the 1960s. The
Ballard found the USS Scorpion, but what other
sub did he find?
>
> Maybe Ballard could take a look around for Malaysia Airlines flight
>
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