The smoking gun.
Fascinating.
But -
Why is an object that is clearly aluminum (silver) on the Electra appearing as brownish / rust (like ferrous metal in salt water)?
Why do we see only a portion of the actual length of what would be the window slide frame (the right side being covered by a rock, or tailwheel or something, and the left side being square-cut in a way not consistent with the Electra's slide frame)?
What is the long 'thingy' ('hanging' vertically downward as viewed in the picture in the report)? I don't see anything in the Electra that would correspond to that.
The suggested 'rivet spacing' is interesting - the pattern is 'right' enough, but the object holds out with one glaring exception in my view: it takes a huge leap to assign any confidence to the 'scale' that has been so torturously arrived at in the report. A very large assumption was applied, in my view. I'll grant that ordinary yardsticks aren't themselves a bad scale - but in following this I was asked (by the reporter, so to speak) to make the leap to believing that the object in the seafloor picture is reliably what the reporter suggests, so as to correlate the two and convince myself of 'scale' as the report did. I am not convinced.
Interesting Tim, but I think you are throwing good money after bad, IMHO. But if you are convinced, then consider that the only way to know for sure is to ride out there and kick the sediment off all that stuff and have a close look.
So you have this man's view. What you can get others to see in this remains to be seen, I suppose. I don't recall any public clammer about "Earhart Found!" over the original reports, so I just dunno 'bout this... not a gun - in fact, looks about as soggy as old toilet paper on the seafloor to me, frankly.