Here's what we know so far:
• During what we're calling the "Hail Mary" attempt to obtain imagery of the anomaly location the device took a total of 426 photos. A little fewer than half of them - 179 photos, 42% - are useful images. The others show only blue water as the device was descending and ascending, or are extreme, out of focus close-ups of the bottom because the camera was too low.
• Based on the 67 GPS readings taken by Walt Holm during the exercise, Bob Brandenburg plotted the path of the skiff from which the device was lowered. At one point the path came within an estimated three feet of the center of the anomaly coordinates as calculated by Ocean Imaging Consultants from the sonar data collected by Phoenix International. The full anomaly is over 21 meters (69 feet) long running roughly north to south. Based on the skiff path, we should have good coverage of the anomaly location and the areas immediately to the east (upslope) and west (downslope). We're not yet sure about how much coverage we have because we haven't yet matched up the time stamp in skiff GPS readings with the time stamp in the photo meta data. A copy of the plot is attached below.
• There is no obvious airplane debris visible in the photos but neither is there an obvious geological feature to explain the anomaly. There is considerable overlap from image to image in many of the photos so we should be able to construct mosaics that will tell us more about the bottom topography.
• There are a few man-made objects in the photos. There are also a few possible man-made objects. At this point we don't know what they are. All are small (a few inches in size). I'll post some photos.
• The 179 potentially useful photos are loaded into a TIGHAR Dropbox. Each photo is roughly 3MB in size. If you're a TIGHAR member and you'd like a link to the Dropbox just send me an email at tigharic@mac.com.