It's really sad to see how many in the media are misreporting about the length of time that KoK was on station at Nikumaroro. It's become quite the mantra of negative reporting. For instance, a NatGeo article says this:
TIGHAR's $2.2-million expedition was originally slated to last ten days, but "equipment problems directly attributable to the severity of the underwater environment at Nikumaroro" cut the search time to only five days.
A ten day expedition cut down to "only five days." Yeah, right.
It's sad that the reporters crafting such stories cannot read the times in the publicly-accessible daily reports and do the simple arithmetic.
KoK arrived at the island at 11:30Z on 12 July (Thursday) and immediately began its side beam sonar mapping. KoK departed the vicinity at 10:00Z on 20 July (Friday) after performing a final side beam sonar mapping on the southern side of Nikumaroro. That's a stay at Niku of just two hours shy of a full 8 days on location -- a stay significantly longer than the 5 days that the media continues to misreport.