If anyone is attending the symposium and reading this, can you tell me if they have estimated the size of Nessie? Thanks.
Heath, Jeff Glickman was the final speaker for today. He had a very professional slide show and I was very impressed with his presentation and presence at the lectern. He showed the same picture I previously posted a link to, of himself "shooting" the original photo pasted into the photo album that is held at Oxford University (the photos had been sent by Eric Bevington back home to his parents in England, and I presume they were the ones who pasted them into the album; the negatives were apparently lost when the Japanese swept into Tarawa a few years later). The original photo is surprisingly small, not at all the large format implied by the various postings we've seen on the TIGHAR website ... he held his fingers up and indicated a photo about 3.5" square.
He showed his photogrammetric work from back in 2010, pinpointing where Bevington (aboard the RCS
Nimanoa) would have been when the photo was taken, as well as the location on the reef edge of the "Bevington feature". When the expedition members in 2010 worked their way to that calculated location, there was a pronounced fissure (he used a different word that I can't recall) in the reef.
He showed a deconstruction of the four distinct pieces corresponding to the tire, the strut, the fender, and the worm gear and showed how those pieces match up neatly with the pieces of the object in the photo, indicating how deformation might have occurred similar to what happened when the Electra groundlooped in Hawaii earlier that year.
And to answer your specific question: the tire portion he measured out at a width of 36", matching the diameter of the actual tires on the Electra.