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Amelia Earhart Search Forum => General discussion => Topic started by: Matt Revington on June 20, 2025, 01:54:18 PM

Title: USS Bushnell 1939 Photo mosaic of Gardner
Post by: Matt Revington on June 20, 2025, 01:54:18 PM
I have not seen this photo mosaic discussed here
https://www.mymcmedia.org/new-developments-in-the-search-for-amelia-earhart-part-1/
I can't see anything significant in the image but further processing might help
Title: Re: USS Bushnell 1939 Photo mosaic of Gardner
Post by: Martin X. Moleski, SJ on June 21, 2025, 06:30:09 AM
Quote from: Matt Revington on June 20, 2025, 01:54:18 PMI have not seen this photo mosaic discussed here
https://www.mymcmedia.org/new-developments-in-the-search-for-amelia-earhart-part-1/
I can't see anything significant in the image but further processing might help

"The Bushnell survey took place in 1939, just two years after the disappearance. The logs and associated maps and soundings revealed that the surveyors covered the island's lagoon in great detail, and were on land too, erecting towers and markers. Thus, they likely would have spotted any large parts of wreckage in the lagoon or on the fringing reef, and might have spotted items left by the wrecked aviators, if indeed they survived there. (Remember, negative evidence is evidence.)"

They seem to have missed the bones of a skeleton, fire pits with bird bones and turtle shells, parts of a man's show, parts of a woman's shoe, and some corks on brass chains. Gallagher found those in 1940. Some negative evidence is not evidence.

I don't see anything in the photomosaic.

I wish them all success on their mission to Niku.
Title: Re: USS Bushnell 1939 Photo mosaic of Gardner
Post by: Bill Mangus on June 21, 2025, 01:54:29 PM
. . . and they left the sextant box that resulted in years of research.