Ric,
What happens if ya'll manage to find pieces of the Electra one day? Are you guys going to put all the objects you've found over the years on exhibit, or are you going to keep it with the group?
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In my opinion, the biggest missing piece is definitely the Electra. It's gotta be somewhere out in that ocean. Whether it'd be 100 miles out, 1,000 miles out, and so on. I think it's rather interesting with the multiple fires, also. I was thinking that maybe if one fire were to burn out, then the castaway(s) would go on and build another one. Then again, how could a fire burn out so quickly? Certainly, I would build fires for either A) Keep the crabs away, B) For warmth, or C) To alert rescue (if one was able to see smoke from so far away). I guess an argument could be those post-lost radio messages. Some of them were frauds, but others... Quite unexplainable, maybe. I guess it would also depend (since AE was running out of fuel) if she'd have enough "life" on the plane to transmit the messages. Then again, I guess the battery would have enough "life" left.
Now, if I remember correctly, she didn't have the radio-direction finder on the plane of the morning of July 2nd? Or did she? If so, wouldn't that be lying around somewhere in the ocean near Gardner (Niku)?