The Eustace Earhart Discovery Expedition launched Feb. 18 from Honolulu and expects to be at sea between 30 and 45 days in its search for the final resting place of Amelia Earhart’s aircraft.
The group of ocean explorers, led by stratospheric explorer Alan Eustace, intend to search a wide area of the Pacific Ocean floor, which they believe may be the resting place of the Amelia Earhart aircraft.
“This discovery would end one of the world’s greatest mysteries and locate a priceless piece of aviation history,” they said in a prepared release.
The oceanographic systems laboratory from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, is using the REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle for the search. The non-profit SeaWord Foundation is providing educational opportunities and outreach programs for the expedition, which is being managed by Nauticos.
Nauticos officials will be sharing its journey to schools, youth groups and aviation and ocean enthusiasts around the world who want to follow the discovery experience. News, photos and videos will be added to the Expedition Portal, where you can also sign up for future email updates.
Waste of time and money. The TIGHAR website has a great hypothesis of where Amelia landed on Gardner Island.
Tighar has not proven anything. Not a thing. I wish they would have found the plane but they have not. Not one real piece of evidence, and you say that is great hypothesis? They found a piece of aluminum they said was from the plane awhile back,and it was found that writing on that was post ww2, after she went missing. There is no other definitive proof that Amelia was at Gardener or Nikumaroro, and the bones they found years ago are missing now. Tighar said a few years ago that a shape in the deep water looked like the plane and they needed money to go there with sonar and imaging. Well they got there and their machines did not work. They finally got something to go down and check the are and the image turned out was not a plane. And nothing from the plane has ever been found. How is Tighar’s evidence or hypothesis great or even plausible so far? Where is the proof? Even the jar they said was freckle cream was not the same type of glass. I think searching the floor of the ocean near Howland is a much better situation. and radio signals heard at Howland sounded close. That is more plausible to be honest. And I had hoped Tighar had found something, but each time you think they had it turns out to be nothing.
Not our tax dollars but they declare themselves a nonprofit research organization and all those donated dollars become a writeoff rather than becoming tax dollars.
Someone wants to pay for their efforts,, good for them. As long as tax dollars don’t fund it.
I am convinced that none of these “expeditions” actually expect to ever find Earhart. Or even any credible sign of her whereabouts. But simply use her disappearance as an excuse to finagle funds from whoever. It’s how they “make” a living.
I am not sure about that. I think they want to find the plane and Amelia. But I don’t think Tighar has found anything in many expeditions. For them to keep claiming she was there, they need something definitive. I cannot say either expedition is trying to rip off the public. I don’t think so. I believe just on logic the plane is near Howland, but at this point who knows what is left of the plane. If a good search is done near Howland, I think the plane will be found. The Nikumaroro scenario? Well the bones would have been definitive and they lost those. What else do they have?
They intend to search a wide area of the Pacific? Go luck with that. That’s a mighty big ocean to search with a small ship deploying and monitoring an even smaller autonomous underwater vehicle. Surely they have reduced the area to search to that which is considered feasible and practical. I will be greatly surprised if they find anything of Earheart’s airplane which by now has been eaten by corrosion and covered by the usual oceanic crust. Compare the size of her airplane to the Titanic which took years of underwater searching to finally locate the ship’s scattered wreckage.
If they could not find a B777 with all the resources put into that effort then what hope do they have of finding that tiny plane covered with close to a century of growth? Just a waste of time and resources. They ran out of fuel, they crashed, they died, end of story.