Robert Ballard, the man who found the Titanic, is now searching for Amelia Earhart’s missing plane.
that Ballard has always wanted to find the plane, but he knew there just weren’t enough clues to make a search any more than a futile dive into a haystack hunting for a needle. But then, in 2012, somebody showed Ballard a picture taken in 1937 off Nikumaroro Island, one of the longstanding contenders for a likely Earhart crash site, that seems to show a piece of Lockheed Model 10-E Electra landing gear sticking up out of the water.
Viewed from above, Nikumaroro is small and flat. But the island is only the plateau of a steep underwater mountain rising 10,000 feet from the ocean floor. Earhart landed on the very edge of the island, Dr. Ballard believes. As tides rose, her plane may have slipped down the underwater slope. The ridges of the mountain are rugged — full of troughs and valleys that can hinder sonar. After using onboard technology to create a 3-D map of its sides, the team will have to search the mountain visually, monitoring video feeds from the ROV’s in 12-hour shifts.
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