Hi, I'm new to the Forum but have been following this fascinating search for a long time now. Kudos to Rick and co. for keeping the hunt alive.
The new anomaly is really exciting, and it's a shame TIGHAR can't go check it out sooner rather than later. This might be common knowledge, so forgive me if it's a dumb question, but how far off do you anticipate the next expedition being? What is the "magic number" from a fundraising perspective, and how is the progress going toward the goal? Would the government not consider backing (or subsidizing) an expedition? What about the Discovery Channel or some such entity?
Re: the anomaly itself, will the next expedition be sufficiently equipped to address the possibility that the object might have "fallen" down to a deeper depth in the intervening months? i.e. if the expedition doesn't find the anomaly where it was, will it be equipped to re-locate it on the fly and photograph it via ROV even if it's moved down to deeper water (due to storm activity, currents, or whatever)?
Are there any plans to also revisit the site of the presumed Bevington object pieces and photograph them in more detail (or recover them, perhaps with an identifying manufacturer plate or some such thing attached)?
Finally, while the anomaly is extremely exciting, is it the only angle being pursued at this point? Just wondering about the risk of putting all eggs into a single basket. If the next expedition photographs it and it turns out to be a reef or some such thing, what would be the next steps? Is there any additional excavation work planned on the island itself, at the presumed campsite, etc?
thanks,
-Skip