if I can indluge for a moment--Guys dont make me stand in a corner over this !!!
Ok---we know the original ROV footage was somewhere around 800 feet. Richie, Jeff V H, and alot of others have poured over this and 'found' some interesting things. From what I gather from the dailies, The AUV & ROV are around 1200, and just finding parts of the shipwreck. So---I'm guessing---MY OPINION ONLY, is that they have targeted those things that Richie and Jeff spotted, and are going back to them, or they didnt find them, or---3rd possibility is they aint saying. My hope would be option 3 (aint saying), so we can have the big reveal and a party.
The one good thing about all of this is that the Kiribati Govt will get a really good idea of the reef slope around Niku, and have documented stuff thats there. Hazards to navigation and all that stuff.
Hearing that the NC larger parts are around 1200 is very interesting, and plays into the idea I had about the reef slope looking like the Napali Coastline of Hawaii, or the north shore of Molakai. 3-4000 feet almost vertical, with crevasses and outcroppings. It will be very interesting to see the footage that Discovery releases. I hope for history's sake, that the include a bit on the Norwich City, to give some background on what we are going to see.
Tom