Nikumaroro is calling! Now's your chance to visit.
We now have a website dedicated to the 2017 Nikumaroro trip with
Betchart Expeditions; it’s at www.niku2017.com. Please
take a look.
We’re on
track for the trip, but need to finalize the ship charter by this June, so need to
be reasonably sure we’ll have a critical mass of passengers. So if you want to
join us, please get your reservations and deposits in NOW. And please encourage
friends and colleagues to do so, too.
Fundraising
is underway to support the research part of the trip – without which it won’t
be possible to do much more than wave at the island and contemplate what may
have happened there to Earhart and Noonan. As you’ll see on the website, one
way people can support the research is by “adopting an expert” – or a half or
quarter of an expert, a couple of experts, or the whole team. Please consider
helping, and encourage others to do this, too.
If
Adopt-an-Expert works out, we’re considering doing something similar to support
another team visit to Fiji, to pursue the elusive bones and sextant box, see if
any leads can be developed on what happened to Gerald Gallagher’s effects, and
pursue a couple of other leads. If you’re interested in this, please let me
know.
All this
is separate from the ongoing effort to raise funds for a deepwater search of
Niku’s reef using manned submersibles. For information on that, please visit
TIGHAR.org.
Questions,
comments, brickbats – please contact me at tomking106@gmail.com
or 01-240-475-0595.
Thanks --
Tom
"Club Fred," on the lagoon shore of the colonial village at Ritiati
