Of course, it could be rope from some other source that has been underwater for much less time. Anybody have an example of what rope looks like after 70 years underwater?
I watched it in HD and thought the resolution on the ROV looked pretty good. I am assuming that you seeing the pictures on the monitor would've led you lean one way or the other or was what we saw not quite as clear as I percieved it to be. I never even thought rope, I thought somewhere in the area of 1/2" cable but of course I was not there too see what you saw on the monitor. Also don't know much about the design of the Electra other then what I have seen on the website. Are the exterior stabalizing/antenna wires that go from the fueslage of the Electra to the rear more like wires or cables? I really trust your judgement so in your honest opinion, in your minds eye, which do you "believe" it to be rope or metal cable?
I know I am talking woulda, coulda, shoulda, but if in fact it's cable (without recovery couldn't be proven) it really adds credence to the Electra going over the reef edge in that particular area. The reason I bring this up is I read somewhere the Electra would float for quite sometime due to buoyancy of the empty fuel tanks. If the fuselage was basically intact after being ravaged by the surf I thought it would've had a real good chance of floating quite some distant before finally sinking. That being said, there could be more of the electra off the reef shelf then just the engines. If engines where found wouldn't it take another expo to raise them and positively ID them?