Citizen Science [S2Ep22]
Sailors volunteer to hunt for Lepas data in Tonga
In today’s episode we discuss a new approach to gathering the Lepas data that could tell us how long MH370’s debris was in the water. By tapping into a worldwide community of oceangoing sailors who congregate on the social media site No Foreign Land (www.noforeignland.com), it might be possible to retrieve data from barnacles that are just about anywhere in the ocean. I tried out this approach by reaching out to cruisers Leslie Graney and Peter Sheaff after I noticed that their boat “Itchy Feet” was quite close to an interesting Global Drifter buoy near the island of Vava’u in Tonga. With incredible graciousness and pluck Leslie and Peter immediately set out on a quest to intercept the buoy, while I looked on from halfway around the world.
While the experiment didn’t succeed in retrieving Lepas specimens, it was a great demonstration of how the idea could work in the future, and gave us important ideas for improvements going forward. I’m grateful to No Foreign Land’s owners, Helena and Steve Neal, for inviting me to form a group on their website to help other members get involved. If you’d like to check it out or get involved yourself you’ll find it here.
And while we’re on the topic of getting involved, don’t forget that Finding MH370 has a Kickstarter underway to gather new evidence about the disappearance of the Malaysian airliner. With your help we can make it happen! Please visit the project page here to learn more and make a pledge.
the Black box in the plane can be tracked and give its location even when its moving or underwater so why did they not track it.
Also i have 2 possilbe theriers
1st the plane crashed in the indian ocean
or the 3 russians on the plane are working with the russian goverment. they changed the data from the elctronics centre in the plane then they and all the elctronic track then they haijacked the plane and flew it to russia or kazhastan and the russian governemts made the passengers join the army.