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Amelia Earhart Search Forum => General discussion => Topic started by: Matt Revington on January 05, 2024, 01:03:25 PM

Title: sorry about this
Post by: Matt Revington on January 05, 2024, 01:03:25 PM
First I want to apologize for being the latest crazy person to think he has seen something in google maps but I was looking at Nikumaroro in google maps and saw something odd near the Norwich City wreck, likely it is just a random piece of junk but I would be interested in what others see.  I have attached a larger view which includes the Norwich City and then a zoomed view of the object.
Title: Re: sorry about this
Post by: Ric Gillespie on January 06, 2024, 08:45:10 AM
No apologies necessary.  The sea giveth and the sea taketh away.  Always worth checking.

The object you point out is not a new arrival. It has been in that position since at least 2012.  I think it's the thing in the foreground of the photo below taken in 2001.

We've walked past it many times.

Title: Re: sorry about this
Post by: Dale O. Beethe on January 08, 2024, 11:06:44 AM
I keep hoping the wheel reappears when someone is there to see it, and hopefully recover it.
Title: Re: sorry about this
Post by: Ric Gillespie on January 08, 2024, 11:58:50 AM
I keep hoping the wheel reappears when someone is there to see it, and hopefully recover it.

It's an ironic situation.  Google Earth gives us excellent satellite-view updates every few years, but if something interesting were to show up it would take hundreds of thousands of dollars to check it out.
Title: Re: sorry about this
Post by: Dale O. Beethe on January 08, 2024, 03:24:08 PM
Ric, if I were a billionaire, I'd get you there to check it out.  I'd also have rented the deep submersibles.  Alas...........