Actually Richie--is was NOT a trick question. Nat Geo has the means, the equipment, and the marketing ability. Cameron is a world renowned film maker. Yes, personalites will certainly get in the way. but---the reality is this----is there ever going to be enough money to see this mystery to a conclusion? For you Richie, to see first hand, some of the things on the reef that you have pointed out in the stills?
With costs going up, the reality of getting somewhere around $5 million US, anytime soon to fund the kind of expeditioon to Niku that we all would like to see, probably isnt going to happen. I suspect that Ric will let us in on that in DC.
The other part of this is----each day that goes by, the debris has the potential to move somwhere else. Earthquakes make things move, ocean currents do as well. We've seen that with the debris from the Norwich City. There is the real possibility the there could be an event that take the debris we are looking for, and moves it to really deep water. That make it an even smaller needle in a very large haystack.