Grainy Sonar Image Could Be Groundbreaking Find in Amelia Earhart Disappearance

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A South Carolina man believes his hunt for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane has paid off.

Tony Romeo, a real estate investor from Charleston who has sunk about $11 million of his money into the hunt for Earhart’s aircraft, is sharing with the world a sonar image that appears to be a plane resting on the ocean floor, 5,000 meters below the surface, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Romeo, CEO of Deep Sea Vision, said he believes the image is that of the Lockheed 10-E Electra plane Earhart was flying when she vanished in 1937.

“This is maybe the most exciting thing I’ll ever do in my life,” he said. “I feel like a 10-year-old going on a treasure hunt.”

Earhart was a precedent-shattering pilot and a global celebrity when she took off from Papua New Guinea on July 2, 1937, along with navigator Fred Noonan. They were never seen again.

Her next stop was supposed to be Howland Island, a dot in the central Pacific Ocean, but she never reached it. Theories have raged that she was captured by the Japanese or died on a Pacific island, but there has been no proof, as noted by the BBC.

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