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> I guess you didn't pick up on the fact that this is some kind of an "April
> Fools" joke. (They apparently do this kind of thing in PNG in March
> instead of in April.)

So, much like the "tree falling in the woods" conundrum, is it really a joke
if nobody knows that it's a joke?...  ;-)

Too bad that so much of the world media reported it as if it were a fact,
guess that happens when the research staff is declared "excess baggage" and
"not needed" in this Internet age.

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GregR



----- Original Message -----
From: Gary LaPook
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 12:59 PM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Amelia Earhart Report



I guess you didn't pick up on the fact that this is some kind of an "April
Fools" joke. (They apparently do this kind of thing in PNG in March instead
of
in April.)

In addition to the "six meter snake", things you should have noticed:

1. Nobody is out diving to 70 meters, about 230 feet, using normal SCUBA
equipment. Non-professional divers are limited to depths less than 130 feet
(35
meters) due to decompression problems and limitations in sport diving
equipment.
It is a very expensive proposition to dive deeper than that so nobody was
just
swimming along at 70 meters below the surface and just happening onto the
wreckage and, unless beche de mer (sea cucumbers)sells for more than a
thousand
dollars a pound, nobody would dive to 70 meters to harvest them. Since it is
a
traditional food it is very unlikely that it is an expensive food. ( "Sea
cucumbers destined for food are traditionally harvested by hand on small
watercraft; a process angliciszed into "trepanging" (after the Indonesian
noun
trepang)." See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber_%28food%29)

The actual price varies between US $ 1.44 to $15.06 per kilo when exported,
much
cheaper on the local market. See:

http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5501e/y5501e0a.htm



2. "Coral on the left side of the plane?" why not on the rest of the plane
and
how would that prevent recovering artifacts from the exposed wreckage?


3. "Dust on the seabed?"

4. Putnam and Earhart asked for the newspaper to pay for the cabled stories,
why didn't they just dip into all the "gold bullion" they were carrying to
pay
for their expenses?

Unless you are under anestesia you should notice when your leg is being
pulled.

gl

--- On Thu, 3/3/11, Philip  wrote:


From: Philip 
Subject: [NavList] Re: Amelia Earhart Report
To: NavList@fer3.com
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 8:42 AM


I think not, A 1600 mile error in navigation? Alien abduction?

On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 08:50 -0400, Richard Langley wrote:
> AVwebFlash report:
>
> EARHART WRECK FOUND?
> A report from Papua New Guinea says the wreck of an aircraft that
> might be the Lockheed Electra flown by Amelia Earhart and her
> navigator Fred Noonan has been found on a reef near Bougainville
> Island near Papua New Guinea. The Papua New Guinea Post Courier is
> reporting"armed men" are guarding the area over a reef off Matsungan
> Island where an aircraft matching the description of Earhart's plane
> has been found. Divers are now checking the wreck and inquiries are
> flooding in from all over the world. There is no word on whether any
> human remains have been recovered.
>
> More: http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1847-full.html#204205
>
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