Amelia Earhart
2024–2025: Search by Deep Sea Vision

In a potentially significant discovery in 2024, Deep Sea Vision, a Charleston, South Carolina, company that operates unmanned underwater vehicles, found via sonar what it said are the remains of an airplane on the ocean floor. Using advanced underwater exploration technologies, including Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS), they detected an object resembling an Electra airplane approximately 16,000 ft (4.9 km) beneath the ocean's surface, within 100 mi (160 km) of Howland Island. The object's location, size, proportions, and defined edges on an otherwise sandy bottom indicate that it may be Earhart's missing plane. However, further exploration is needed for confirmation.

At a July 20, 2024 presentation at the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, the founders of Deep Sea Vision said they planned to send a follow-up mission, provisionally scheduled for late 2024 or early 2025, which will include deploying an optical camera to obtain visual confirmation of the find. While the exact target area remains undisclosed, the company is producing a documentary tentatively entitled "Why Not Us" to chronicle the expedition. If the discovery is confirmed to be Earhart's aircraft, Deep Sea Vision advocates raising and preserving it on the surface, although this would involve complex logistical and preservation challenges.
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