What an interesting video! The narrator's voice is perfect for this-calm, intelligent, no hype... This video is what would get me into an IMAX theatre again. Well, I am scared of too much under water footage, but the whole thing about getting people to the island and how dangerous it is. The drone really helped show that path. Very neat video! Thank you!!!
Well, her trailing antenna, VITAL for HF communications broke off during the PNG departure. I know, as I spoke to Sid Marshall as a teenager, who was a veteran pilot operating in PNG at the time. Sid also helps Earhart and Noonan re-fuel. One thing that always puzzles me is WHY Fred Noonan went along with it. I thought they would have turned around and landed to fix it, but the axel weight was too high for the landing gear.
Hi Station Manager: thanks for your comments. Because this RU-vid page is for my ship NAI'A and not monitored by TIGHAR, I'll send them your comments in an email. Thanks, Rob
I believe any aircraft parts swept out to sea, to the depths...nothing to retain it there. I do believe from all the info out there, Amelia was there...and died there...RIP Amelia, what a wonderful adventurer and lady. Wish I could have met you.....
If someone REALLY wanted to find out what happened they would. If teams of researchers could find the Titanic at over 1 mile down., then a sub or unmanned camera could get down to see what the anomaly is.
It appears the anomaly was a coral shelf after further investigation. HOWEVER, it also appears that TIGHAR Artifact 2-2-V-1 (an unusual aluminum plate with no documentation regarding its manufacture) may well have been a replacement item cobbled together in Miami after Earhart landed hard and damaged the airplane on the first/second leg of her West>East World Flight. The damaged airplane has a window in a photo taken shortly after her arrival in Miami, (I believe she accidentally attempted to land at the wrong airport in Miami, so was a bit rattled and put the bird down *hard* when she eventually found the right place, but check me on that): the starboard-side lavatory-compartment window was also photographed on her initial departure from Burbank, but on the morning of her departure from Miami the window had been replaced by a shiny aluminum patch, and there are no records of that modification being made to the airplane. (Technically, there are no records of the optical glass being installed in the lavatory compartment, either: the fact that it significantly weakened the airframe is seldom discussed, but photos of Earhart with one of her in-laws in Miami show not just the window, but possible damage to the airplane's fuselage. Installation of that glass panel required cutting out a significant chunk of a longitudinal frame member through the lav compartment, for a window that would *only be useful if the round-the-world flight were going East>West* because that would put the navigator's window on the north-facing side of the airplane. She broke the airplane *AGAIN!!* Second fuck-up in as many tries to fly around the world (remember Hickam Field, Hawaii?), George Putnam had the story buried and the parts were manufactured -- and installed -- in secrecy. (I'd say, "ostensibly", but the photographic evidence is damning.) Artifact 2-2-V-1 matches the rivet patterns and material of *no other aircraft* lost in the South Pacific before, during or after WWII. OTOH, if it *were* a patch installed to repair a damaged airplane, and (don't quote me here, I'm going on faulty memory systems) the Earhart Electra had a skin made of .025" Alclad, you would expect the patch to be made of slightly thicker stuff, and 2-2-V-1 is something like .032" or so. A Lockheed Electra 10E was visited during restoration by TIGHAR experts, and lo and behold, the size matches and the potential rivet patterns match 2-2-V-1. "New York City" ... brrr, shivers, she was abandoned when all the clues were there!
William R Warren Jr Excellent William! How do you mean she was abandoned when all the clues were there? Her final transmissions? Great reply and thank you!
Yes, and recent analysis of the bone measurements by a forensic anthropologist concluded that the bones found on the island were 99% likely to belong to Amelia Earhart.
@@NAIAFiji That's a lie. The person that examined the bones right after the find said they were the bones of a stocky indigenous man. The bones were lost soon after that and nobody has ever actually seen them in person nor tested them.
A tropical paradise, until you get there and realize there's no fresh water, there's giant crabs there to eat you and you can't call 911. Only the most skilled, trained and resilient survivalist could survive here, and ONLY if they brought along or was able to make reusable supplies to distill water. Foraging for food isn't that much of an issue, but the lack of fresh water and the harsh environmental elements will do you in. I myself am well versed on wild edibles, medicines and how to filter, distill and sanitize water for drinking. But I'd be lucky if I survived 2 months.
Not if you're marooned without water. I might get sick of eating crab eventually, I love seafood, but weak and sick and dehydrated and injured (why would she be wearing a shoe too large for her foot? Injured foot? Infected? Fred's dead, he can't use it anymore!) and desperate (not very *smart*, but learned a few things like boiling water before you drink it) there's the problem of the lack of available fresh water. The survivors' caches of marooned supplies left by the crew and rescuers of the SS Norwich City were helpful (a Dutch Oven used to boil fresh from salt water, e.g.) but Fred was banged up pretty severely when she landed on the reef and his dying was a pretty severe blow to her overinflated confidence. Amelia was *NOT* a great aviatrix. Aviator. *SHE WAS NOT THAT GOOD A PILOT!!!* But she landed NR16020 (roughly) on Nikumaroro (Gardner Island) about noon on July 2, 1937 and only a Russian deckhand on a windjamming commercial sailboat ever saw her alive again.
I landed ther on Mfs 2020 really a poor island with no chances to survive very long if she really crashed here it must have been such a horrible dead for a young person i honor her she made incredible flights in that days wow wherever she is she will always be remembered
Even if she knew her her antenna was compromised she wouldn’t want to land that heavy with fuel. Not sure if there was a way to drain fuel in emergency. That left seat canopy hatch must hinge both left and right.
Waisting their time searching Nikumaroro. Check off Howland Island, even go several miles out searching with an ROV. The Electra is 18,000 feet at the bottom. The Itasca anchored off Howland Island at the time of the disappearance, stated Earhart was very close by since her signal was strong. Nikumaroro is too far away. Too much $$ and resources looking in the wrong place. No wonder the plane wreckage hasn't been found. Again devote money to searching off Howland Island several miles if need be.
Hi! There is no anchorage at all for the ship, so you must live boat or tie off to the propeller shaft of the wreck on the reef. A well-run skiff can enter the small landing channel but it is dangerous because there is often surf closing out the mouth. Nikumaroro is a difficult place all around...!
Coral bleaching happens when the sea heats up so much that it kills the tiny animals that live inside coral and give it its color. The coral expels them and turns white. If the water cools again soon enough, the coral will survive, but if elevated temperatures last more than a couple of months, the coral dies and takes years or decades to recover.
These Coconut Crabs can grow up to 3 feet in length and can crack open Coconut shells... hence the name, Coconut Crab. I am curious as to what you would do for unsalted drinking water though...
Good question Michael. TIGHAR didn't notice the anomaly until they reviewed the data a second time just as the recent AUV sonar hit in deep ocean was missed in real time. I think sonar surveying is an inexact science but Ballard's work has always been first class. Still, you can't prove that something isn't there; only that it is. So the mystery remains.
I hope this theory is proven correct someday but I find it hard to believe that she was low on fuel and yet somehow flew hundreds of miles to the south to land on this island. If it were 100 miles or less sure but this is beyond pushing it.
What i found on the internet is that it was a plane failure and she crashed what really happend only god knows but what we all know is that if she really crashed here it was impossible to survive if not found after three days i guess ther is no freshwater you can maybe survive one or two days maybe 5 days but i think not much longer the island of Cast Away for example had a little bit more resources for everyone yes my english is bad no practisce anymore in writeing and spelling lol but understanding it still works good
She was already south of Howland Island when she was low on fuel. It’s not like she was north and then flew the pattern south. Makes no sense anyway. She would’ve found HI.
@@LieorDie24 people can survive a while in the right circumstances… 30+ days with zero food (need water). They probably could have lasted a few months or more with what they could find to eat. Finding drinkable water would be hard…(can’t drink ocean water).
July 2, 1937 Earhart's plane reported missing. July 7, 1937 Republic of China and the Empire of Japan are at war( Second Sino-Japanese War). My point is, there already was high tension between the USA and Japan Long before Sino or WWII.
Hi Jay: I flew the drone along Amelia's presumed landing path over the dry reef edge. The video is archived on a hard drive (which one?) but I can probably unearth it if is important. Rob
Hi Larry: TIGHAR searched the lagoon on one of their early trips thinking that she may have successfully landed where overwash had cleared the scrub and then crashed into the lagoon while trying to take off again. But no plane parts were found in the lagoon. So it remains most likely that she landed on the reef-flat on the outside of the island before the plane was washed out to sea....
*i.imgs.fyi/img/2tq5.png** .. the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's twin engine Lockheed Model 10 Electra located on Nikumaroro Island in the Republic of Kiribati, a few hundred meters north of the wreck of SS Norwich City, 4°39'30.37" S, 174°32'40.23" W.*
*D'oh!!* Bet nobody *ever* thought of *THAT!!* Read up, it's unrelated. It was called *PISS* (I'm not kidding: Phoenix Island Settlement Scheme) and Niku was abandoned in the early 60s because a continuing drought in the South Pacific made the British coconut industry there untenable.
The island has been inhabited several times by people trying to grow things on it. They have had to evacuate people from there because of poor living conditions.
@@WilliamRWarrenJr thanks, guys, but I was just suggesting that there is a thread there that can be added to any research into events over the last century. Many searches for wrecks in Pacific islands groups, even as old as La Perouse's expedition, make use of the local tradition of passing down events by word of mouth, and this is something that can be considered here as well. If it was, then that is something to have mentioned in the video.
Gov coverup. We know she survived because of radio calls. Too bad she had no receiver. That fact cost the whole show. Did it fall off. Left behind? I think the castaways died here with no water. Why did the ship leave.
Cannot go along with the Nikumaroro theory. She was on course for Howland, Noonan would have set a course to be north of Howland not south. He had Amelia turn right (south) too soon, probably 20 miles too soon. Realizing his mistake he had her fly a ladder search (N then S then E then N and S again. They then ran out of fuel 10/12 miles due southwest of Howland died on impact or drowned at sea. Looking for her on Nikumaroro instead of off Howland in the ocean is like loosing your keys in the ocean but walking a mile to the board walk and looking for them there because the lighting is better and there is no water. She never once tells the Itasca (her only lifeline in the Pacific) they are flying south to Nikumaroro or any other place. Not one word!! Her last radio transmission she said they were flying south then north ( presumably looking for the island). Then after not saying a word on her radio flying the 2 1/2 hour flight on no fuel to Nikumaroro, you have her calling for help for days as a castaway. Nope, it just don't make sense.😆😆😆
Washed over the edge of the reef, smashed by waves to a million bits. Chunks of reef the size of bulldozers smashed up on the shore, the massive steel chunks of the Norwich City wreck tossed about like cat toys ... what chance would an aluminum airplane have after more than 75 years?
If I had just won that big Powerball jackpot, I'd fund a full-fledged magnetometer survey (followed by ROVs and manned submersibles) of the south side of the island looking for material that DIDN'T come from the Norwich City.
I do believe the channel was exploded by dynamites by Mr. Gordon who later married to a Kiribati lady and lived in Kiribati ...... I knew it for I was young then living at Orona where he met my parents, Dad as a Dressor.
Amelia Earhart Cecilia louis, died a castaway in the Island of Saint Lucia also along with her then husband Wesley Louise who also died, she lives behind many grand and grate grand and grate grate grand children. she was not terminally ill at the time of her death , she had a sudden death, she died thirteen years after her husband as he was also thirteen years younger. The youngest of her three sons who is my grandfather . She is said to have a daughter, "preferably an adopted daughter". Amelia she lived a very quiet and respective life in the community and was well known.
Hmm good question maybe because people want to find everyone everything which got lost others want to find the plane i guess a museum would pay millions i guess if they would get the plane of her its all because of money always.
People love to solve mysteries. Give people a story with something missing and they will spend years poring over the details, trying to figure it out. This is one of the best.
@@nantereeko8414 ?? Why would there be a rush after all these years? You seem to have gone from one extreme to the other. I'm just saying, that's why people continue to look. If someone finds the plane, or something conclusive, the mystery will be over and it will stop.
I'm looking on Google maps, and I see something. I drop pinned it at the nose of it. I'll write D for degrees, 4D39'38.9'S 174D32'44.1"W -4.660811,-174.545571
