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From: Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: The Guy Who Found the Titanic Is Looking for Amelia Earhart's Plane
Date: 12 Aug 2019 19:44:16 -0700
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In article <XnsAAA9D66B9FC28noemailattnet@216.166.97.131>, Mitchell Holman
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>Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
>news:qisbvj01ds7@drn.newsguy.com:
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>> https://pictorial.jezebel.com/the-guy-who-found-the-titanic-is-looking-
>> for-amelia-ear-1837170549
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>> Robert Ballard, the man who found the Titanic, is now searching for
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>> 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.
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>> 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:
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>> 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.
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>> 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,
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>> 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
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> 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/
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>> Maybe Ballard could take a look around for Malaysia Airlines flight
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