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Marine Robotics Company Hopes It Has Solved Amelia Earhart Mystery

Earhart's plane went missing in 1937

Sonar image of the area surveyed by Deep Sea Vision. — Sonar image of the area surveyed by Deep Sea Vision © PRNewsfoto / Deep Sea Vision

January 30, 2024

The combined efforts of marine archaeologists and robotics experts may have solved one of history’s greatest mysteries: what happened to Amelia Earhart. On July 2, 1937, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were flying in a Lockheed Model 10 Electra aircraft when they lost contact with the U.S. Coast Guard. Despite extensive search efforts, no wreckage or definitive evidence of their whereabouts was ever found.

Deep Sea Vision (DSV), a South Carolina-based marine robotics company, believes it may have an answer. CEO Tony Romeo, alongside his brother Lloyd Romeo, believed in the “Date Line” theory proposed by former NASA employee and amateur pilot Liz Smith. This theory states that Earhart’s failed flight was due to her and Noonan forgetting to turn the calendar back a day as they crossed the International Date Line, which is an important calculation in celestial navigation. The mistake would have caused westward navigational errors of around 60 nm.

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