A Remarkable Discovery Amelia Earhart Mystery
One of the biggest mysteries in the world, according to a pilot and explorer who spent $11 million on an ocean expedition, has been solved: where Amelia Earhart’s plane, which vanished in 1937, is believed to be finally resting. To raise money for research, Tony Romeo, the CEO of Deep C Vision and a former Air Force intelligence officer, sold commercial real estate in the Pacific Ocean’s deep sea last year. They clashed while using sonar gear to investigate the dubious area around Earhart. Romeo believes the hazy, airplane-like form is Amelia Earhart’s twin-engine Lockheed 10-E Electra.
Their team discovered this amazing photograph while reviewing sonar data taken underwater by a drone during their research expedition in December. Between Hawaii and Australia, the photo was taken roughly 100 miles off Howland Island. Earhart never succeeded in becoming the first woman pilot to fly around the world, despite her and her navigator, Fred Noonan, hoping to refuel there in July 1937. Two years later, America pronounced her dead, concluding that her bones had crashed somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Romeo thinks the picture, despite its blurriness, has Earhart’s plane’s distinctive design.
“All right, it will be hard for you to convince me that it is anything other than a plane, and for two, that it is not Amelia Earhart plane,” he stated in an interview that aired on Monday on NBC’s “Today” show.
“You can clearly see in the image that it is not from that era of design, and there is no other known accident in this area,” he stated. It is an intriguing prospect, but it will be hurried to find out if this is the long-lost plane.
Romeo’s team intends to visit the location again in the coming year or two to obtain better images using a camera and a remotely driven vehicle.
We need to know a great deal about the next step, which is confirmation. And it appears that there has been some harm. At this point, it’s been sitting there for 87 years, he remarked.
Given that costly, high-tech equipment is needed for the trip, returning is neither simple nor inexpensive. Romeo’s journey reportedly made use of an underwater Hugin drone from the Norwegian corporation Kongsberg, according to a Wall Street Journal story.
During its last expedition, the campaign scanned 5,200 square miles of the ocean floor with an unmanned submarine. The mysterious plane’s photo was discovered at a depth of 5,000 meters underwater, per the journal’s report.