Still from ROV video

[Bruce Thomas]

There's something slightly... pornographically suggestive in that picture  ::)

"Paging Dr. Rorschach!"   :D

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

Red arrow=broken glass
Yellow arrows=filament holder ends x2
Blue arrow=base
looks like a threaded base as I can't see any bayonet fiitings
All IMHO !

[C.W. Herndon]

Jeff Nevill, you are an aviation mechanic type, any idea about light bulb base types way back then?

[Matt Revington]

Would the Norwich City have had electric lights and bulbs?  My guess would be yes.

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

Would the Norwich City have had electric lights and bulbs?  My guess would be yes.

And the tuna fishing fleets, loran station and others we don't know of. A right old dumping ground this reef is as are the phoenix islands as a whole.
2 run aground ships
3 missing aircraft
That's just the ones we know of 8)

[Ted G Campbell]

Jeff,
Look to the right of the "bulb" could that be flexible metal electrical conduit?
Ted Campbell

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

If this is the twisted wire you are refering to it's the 'wire and rope' of the
'wire and rope' video guys...

[John Balderston]

this image shows the wheel object in more detail

i suspect scale wise it's shopping trolley size ?  :)

this time next week we should know either way  ;D

Richie, nice work.  You are right too - we still have to wait it all out... but who knows?  Good eye for spotting likely stuff!

I have to take Malcolm's advise seriously - as interesting as things seem we have to know much more before we can claim anything.  This is a most interesting exercise and search, however!

LTM -

(reposting with quote and text in proper positions. . .)

Fellows, I'll wager that when the object in the lightened area is identified the wheel/nautilus shell becomes self-explanatory. . .

[Malcolm McKay]

Red arrow=broken glass
Yellow arrows=filament holder ends x2
Blue arrow=base
looks like a threaded base as I can't see any bayonet fiitings
All IMHO !

It does bear a remarkable resemblance to a light bulb, it could also bear a remarkable resemblance to a lump of coral that resembles a light bulb. To me the base of the "bulb" appears more flattened than the top part of it where it meets the "glass". The major problem with things like that is that there is no scale or anything identifiable that could be used as a scale.

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

We mentioned the issue of scale a number of times Malcolm throughout this thread. It is a problem that they should be able to overcome this time round.let's hope they took a yardstick with them this time ;)

[Patrick Dickson]

and it could also be a radio tube.....again, scale is the problem here.

[Tom Swearengen]

Radio tube---thats interesting Patrick. And might be correct. I'll defer to Bob Brandenburg and others who know all about the radios she had onboard, but sounds feasible to me.
Tom

[C.W. Herndon]

Tom, here is a small picture of one of the radio tubes as listed in the circuit diagrams. Could be?

[Jeff Victor Hayden]

Yes, a vacuum/radio tube, good point. Of course it's speculation at this stage but, yes maybe.
The Electra carried a number of spare bulbs/ tubes etc... But then again I guess most planes of that era did. And of course there's the Norwich City, fishing fleets, loran station and so on but, it doesn't look 'reef like'.
That said there could be some species of crustacean that is 'bulb/valve' shaped or, a hermit crab got lucky, you never know, anything is possible no matter how strange it may seem.

[Tom Swearengen]

Just imagine the possibilities! Can you imagine ( :o) what might be on the reef? Too bad is to deep to scuba dive. Would be fastinating.  HUM---
Hey Andrew-----ever done any hard hat diving?!!!!!!