Picture: Deep Sea Imaginative and prescient
In 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan set off on a quest to circumnavigate the globe. Having accomplished most of their journey, Earhart’s airplane disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean close to Howland Island.
Within the intervening 87 years, neither of their our bodies nor their airplane have been definitively recovered — remaining a compelling thriller and producing numerous theories as to what might have occurred.
Not too long ago, a high-tech unmanned underwater drone, operated by Deep Sea Imaginative and prescient, an ocean exploration firm primarily based in South Carolina, surveyed greater than 5,200 sq. miles of ocean flooring between September and December. The drone captured compelling sonar photographs of what may very well be Earhart’s Lockheed Electra plane on the backside of the Pacific Ocean.
NPR studies that the group noticed the plane-shaped object between Australia and Hawaii, about 100 miles off Howland Island, the place Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, had been presupposed to refuel however by no means arrived.
The form of the item within the sonar photographs carefully resembles Earhart’s plane, each in measurement and tail. Deep Sea Imaginative and prescient founder, Tony Romeo, stated he was optimistic in what they discovered.
“All that mixed, you’d be hard-pressed to persuade me that this isn’t an airplane and never Amelia’s airplane,” he stated.
The Deep Sea Imaginative and prescient group plans to research the world the place the photographs had been taken a while this yr, Romeo added.
Has Amelia Earhart’s Airplane Been Discovered within the Pacific?
