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Re: Robert Ballard, Titanic discoverer, seeks Amelia Earhart's plane
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2019 Jul 25, 20:10 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2019 Jul 25, 20:10 -0700
Ed Popko, you wrote:
"Ballard is well known, professional and quite successful in his various undersea explorations."
I'm not so impressed. Ballard's achievements are all decades in the past. I fear that he's an elderly hero, generously a "legend", less charitably a "has-been", who has been selected by the expedition organizers as a figurehead.
You added:
"His relationship to Gillespie and the TIGHAR organization is unclear though the tone of the linked article below suggests he has no affiliation."
No direct affiliation, but the theoretical model that they are testing is one hundred percent TIGHAR. They're only planning to search at Nikumaroro. I suppose there's no other practical option.
Frank Reed
