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I watched their "special" about their expeditions a few months ago, and I actually believe they have a convincing story this time- At least an interesting one if not true. But I am hoping they do have it right this time, so they'll shut up, and start looking for Grizzly Adams. We need him.
In any case, the story about the girl hearing a distress call in Florida does hold water- it is possible for radio to "skip" like that, depending on atmospherics at the time, frequency transmitting on, etc. Any Ham Radio operator can tell you that. The radios then usually had Broadcast band, and Shortwave: which is what she was transmitting on. A signal using skip can "jump" over stations in between to be picked up hundreds or thousands of miles away, depending on the carrier signal- even low strength- and the particular atmospheric conditions. And anyone using HF can tell you, Broadcasting next to a body of salt water gives you a great groundplane to bounce off of- and increase your transmission distance. Given the amount of saltwater between where they speculate she was, and Florida, that signal could have kept bouncing all the way around, conditions being right- which they well may have been.
As to the theory of the aircraft landing on a strip of level beach, there appears to be enough near the shipwreck the anyone could have done so: the possibility the a/c got hung up in a hole, and subsequently destroyed, washed out in a high seas tide, etc, is plausible- not to hard to imagine happening in the course of a few years. And with weather patterns being what they are, I could see heavy seas washing that beach- if it were always calm, it would not be such a wide expanse in that spot. They found "something round" just over the shelf there: I'd say keep looking in that area, but further down the shelf face, and farther afield.
And about the torn to bits and eaten by crabs theory, may sound strange, or far-fetched, but I very seriously believe that would happen if the opportunity presented itself. Man would that hurt! But if no one is there to hear the screams, well then you die alone...
Scott
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I am a reenactor, have been since the early 1980s, and I am an aviation enthusiast, PILOT, A&P mechanic, and military vehicle owner. I have restored cars, trucks, and antique radios. These are MY hobbies- What are YOURS?.
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