Well, with all due respect Tim, I've often pointed out my own excitement over these same things of past explorations - never did and never would deny it.
But an open mind also must embrace new realizations - and that includes that these things that once excited us just didn't bear out to be what so many of us had hoped for. In that vein and in fairness of open mind, one also might also
consider this post, reply #1602 of November 13, 2012, as one that came after I had learned a great deal more and came to look at the sea bottom more critically. What had once been suggested as 'gear' became a clear pile of 'rocks', at least as best I could discern (and I think my read of it is reliable, but others may judge for themselves, of course).
That's nothing against you at all - just that we each have to realize the limits of this search as best we can understand them. And I really don't mean to discourage you from your own conclusions - but the 'proof' doesn't seem to have panned out at all by all we can see now.
I hope you will at some point come to peace over these things too. I really appreciate what you did to make the 2012 expedtion happen, but never will fully understand this action you're in, although I can share in the disappointment of certain things no doubt.
All the best to you, no hard feelings.