Underwater archeologist Bob Ballard is launching a search for Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Model 10-E Electa, which disappeared in 1937 as she and navigator Fred Noonan attempted to circumnavigate the globe. Ballard, 77, is famous for finding the wreck of the Titanic (1985), the Battleship Bismarck (1989), the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Yorktown (1998) and the wreckage of John F. Kennedy s famous PT boat in 2002. He has a track record not only of big goals but also of monumental successes. Using state-of-the-art submersible technology, Ballard uses the best in tech to find things that were long given up as lost forever. His joining in the hunt for the famed aviator marks a major change in the story. The key to Ballard's joining the case was the discovery in a photograph of an anomaly, a grain-sized irregularity in the image that has become the XFiles-like Rorschach test of belief that something, Amelias plane, is out there. The expedition is the latest attempt to solve a mystery that has captivated imaginations for more than 80 years. National Geographic is sponsoring the event and will air a program documenting the hunt by land and by sea.
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