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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
Robert Ballard is searching for Amelia Earhart’s airplane
After searching for the two Navy nuclear powered attack submarines, the USS Scorpion and the USS Thresher, which sank in the 1960s in a semi-classified seach funded by the Navy (They wanted to know the condidion of the nuclear reactors), the Navy gave him authorization to extend his search for RMS Titanic. 9 days later he found it.
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I've been following the quest by the organization TIGHAR for quite a few years. I think their hypothesis and collection of evidence is what attracted Ballard to join in and see. It seemed the most solid compared to other therories as to what happened. I contacted TIGHAR in 1989 about joining in on one of their early expeditions to Nikumaroro, but at the time they didn't have room for another. I hope Robert Ballard finds what's left of her Electra so we'll have a better idea of what happened.