According to the organization conducting the hunt for pilot Amelia Earhart’s potential crash site in the Pacific, a sonar image that was thought to be of her plane turned out to be the typical formations of the sea floor.
Earlier this month, the marine robotics company Deep Sea Vision posted on social media that photos taken by an underwater drone used during the trip revealed a “natural rock formation.”
The Nov. 6 article stated, “After 11 months the waiting has finally ended and unfortunately our target was not Amelia’s Electra 10E,” in reference to her Lockheed 10-E Electra, which has twin engines.
A request for additional details regarding its findings was not immediately answered by the Charleston, South Carolina-based company.
When the business declared in January that Earhart’s plane was thought to have been located, the sonar image of what looked like a cross-shaped object similar to an aircraft created excitement.
The photograph, which was shot during Earhart’s 1937 effort to become the first woman in the pilot’s seat to circumnavigate the world, was taken approximately 100 miles off Howland Island, which is halfway between Australia and Hawaii.
In July 1937, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were supposed to refuel in Howland, but they never did. Despite the inability to find their bodies or a crash site, both were pronounced deceased two years later.
According to a statement released early this year, Deep Sea Vision and its CEO, Tony Romeo, conducted navigational calculations and identified a potential crash location. Marine archeologists and the company’s HUGIN 6000 submersible vehicle then scanned the ocean’s depths 1,600 meters at a time.
Deep Sea Vision claimed that the discovery wasn’t one for the record books until another expedition with more precise data or an outside organization confirmed what Deep Sea Vision thought it had found. The company stated in January that members of the expedition debated whether to release the sonar image.
The discovery of a naturally occurring underwater formation in November was accompanied by greater humor and humility. Another photo this month on Deep Sea Vision’s Instagram page showed a customized T-shirt with the sonar image that reads, “We find rocks.”
Romeo told CNN that the business intends to go back to the region to look for Earhart’s last resting place.
“In some ways, I’m even more excited about it now,” he spoke to the network.
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