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☆ A former US Air Force officer spent $11 million searching for Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane — and may have found it
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Amelia Earhart, 40, stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, California. Amelia Earhart took off from the airport in her £10,000 Flying Laboratory for Honolulu on the first leg of her round-the-world flight. A map of where Earhart's plane is believed to have gone missing along her presumed flight path. Romeo and his company, Deep Sea Vision, discovered an object of similar size and shape to Amelia Earhart's iconic plane, deep in the Pacific Ocean. Advertisement"It's very deep water, and the area that she could've possibly been in is huge," Tom Dettweiler, a sonar expert, told The Journal.

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☆ Timeline of the Titanic sub implosion and search
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Ray Sanchez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

These were the unsettling days since the Titanic submersible’s demise:Sunday, June 18: ‘Discover something truly extraordinary’This image shows the start of the RMS Titanic Expedition Mission 5 on June 18, 2023. Monday, June 19: A race against timeUS Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger, commander of the First Coast Guard District, speaks to the media, Monday, June 19, 2023, in Boston. US and Canadian coast guard crews scoured the ocean’s surface and used sonar to listen for sounds far below the water. Wednesday, June 21: A ‘search-and-rescue mission, 100%’Canadian P-3 aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area, according to the US Coast Guard. It was unclear whether the noises heard Tuesday night and Wednesday morning were from the missing submersible, according to Frederick.

Persons: Hamish Harding, ”, Harding, “, John Mauger, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood, Paul, Henri Nargeolet, Steven Senne, Mauger, Rory Golden, Crews, Jamie Frederick, ” Mathieu Johann, Nargeolet, Frederick, ” Frederick, David Marquet, Stockton, ” OceanGate, ” Mauger, Paul Hankins, Jordan Pettitt, Aileen Maria Marty, Tom Dettweiler Organizations: CNN, Titanic Expedition, US Coast Guard, Atlantic, Stockton Rush, Getty, Daylight, Maritime Horizon Services, US, Guard, First Coast Guard District, Facebook, OceanGate Expeditions, Sonar, Twitter, Canadian Armed Forces, New York Air National Guard, Salvage Operations, Ocean Engineering, US Navy, Navy, Naval, Florida International University, “ Locations: British, Newfoundland, St, John’s, Canada, Cape Cod , Massachusetts, Eastern, Boston, Canadian, Cape Cod, Connecticut, France, St John's

☆ Submersible touring Titanic wreckage running out of oxygen, search approaching a critical juncture
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Nouran Salahieh | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The search area for the missing submersible stretches about two times the size of Connecticut on the surface and goes down as deep as two-and-a-half miles, according to Frederick. We need a miracle – but miracles do happen,” oceanographer and water search expert David Gallo told CNN. However, it remains unclear whether the noises are from the missing submersible, Frederick said. David Marquet, a former submarine captain, described Wednesday what he imagines the five passengers are experiencing in the Titan submersible. OceanGate Expeditions strayed from industry norms by declining a voluntary, rigorous safety review of the vessel, according to an industry leader.

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