Re: The Guy Who Found the Titanic Is Looking for Amelia Earhart's Plane

[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

Miloch > wrote in
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> 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
> Amelia Earhart’s missing plane.
>
> The New York Times reported that Ballard has always wanted to find the
> plane, but he knew there just weren’t enough clues to make a search
> 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
> island, now that he’s wrapped up other projects, and he’s bringing a
> 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.
>
> The ridges of the mountain are rugged — full of troughs and valleys
> 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,
> monitoring video feeds from the ROV’s in 12-hour shifts.
>
> If Ballard and his team do manage to find the plane, it won’t change
> 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
> finally has a good clue. And if anybody can, it’s Ballard, who found
> 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
> Navy needed a cover story, so they agreed to fund Ballard’s
> expedition—he just had to find their boats first.


Ballard found the USS Scorpion, but what other
sub did he find?


>
> Maybe Ballard could take a look around for Malaysia Airlines flight
> 370 while he’s at it.
>
>
>
> *
>
>

[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

Miloch > wrote in
:

> In article >, Mitchell
> Holman says...
>>
>>Miloch > wrote in
:
>>
>>> https://pictorial.jezebel.com/the-guy-who-found-the-titanic-is-lookin
>>> g- for-amelia-ear-1837170549
>>>
>>> Robert Ballard, the man who found the Titanic, is now searching for
>>> Amelia Earhart’s missing plane.
>>>
>>> The New York Times reported that Ballard has always wanted to find
>>> the plane, but he knew there just weren’t enough clues to make a
>>> search 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 island, now that he’s wrapped up other projects, and he’s
>>> bringing a 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.
>>>
>>> The ridges of the mountain are rugged — full of troughs and valleys
>>> 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, monitoring video feeds from the ROV’s in 12-hour shifts.
>>>
>>> If Ballard and his team do manage to find the plane, it won’t change
>>> 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
>>> finally has a good clue. And if anybody can, it’s Ballard, who found
>>> 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 Navy needed a cover story, so they agreed to fund
>>> Ballard’s expedition—he just had to find their boats first.
>>
>>
>> Ballard found the USS Scorpion, but what other
>>sub did he find?
>
> "Thresher"...
> https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a25603601/titanic-
> discovery-nuclear-submarines-navy/
>
> *

I would not have suspected that, Thresher
search was in 1963 and Scorpion was in 1985.

[Byker]

Miloch > wrote in
:
>
> 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
> Amelia Earhart’s missing plane.

I get the feeling he'll come up empty-handed this time...