Applying expert insight to understand the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370
Curated by: Jeff Wise (59 videos)
This week is the 10 year anniversary of the discovery of the first piece of physical evidence in the case of the missing Malaysian Airliner, MH370. When the badly damaged right flaperon washed ashore on La Réunion, a French island in the western Indian Ocean, on July 17, 2015, it immediately caused a worldwide sensation. Scientists realized that the barnacles found growing on the flaperon could provide important clues as to where it had drifted from — and that, presumably, would at last reveal the plane’s crash site. At a time when the seabed search had proven frustratingly empty, they hoped that this information could be the key to finally solving the case. But scientists were missing an important piece of context: a robust understanding of how exactly Lepas anatifera barnacles grow when floating in the open ocean. In the years since, that understanding has proven elusive. However, using data from the Atlantic Oceonographic & Meteorological Laboratory in Miami and the assistance of volunteers living by the ocean’s edge, I’ve finally been able to collect specimens of known age that put the growth of the flaperon barnacles in context and reveal when the object went into the water. It turns out that scientists’ initial expectations were way off the mark. As I discuss in the video, it would have been impossible to collect this new evidence without the help of Josh and Arsheen of 2 Winds Paddle Sports, you can visit their web site at https://www.paddlesportszanzibar.com. Special thanks also to Keelie, Rochelle Reynolds, and Brett Glossop, who all pitched in and lent a tremendous amount to time and energy to the task of collecting and analyzing this information. And my undying gratitude to Andy Sybrandy of Pacific Gyre, Martin Stelfox of the Olive Ridley Project, and Shaun Dolk and Rick Lumpkin of the AOML. #MH370 #unsolvedmystery #mystery #unexplained #unexplainedphenomena To learn more about this episode, to sign up for a free weekly newsletter, or to view other episodes from Season 1 and 2, please visit our show page at FindingMH370.com. Another way you can support the show is by signing up for a membership to the YouTube channel, which provides a small subscription fee and is hugely appreciated, more here: https://www.youtube.com/@Jeff_Wise/join For a concise account of the MH370 mystery check, and an explanation of what might have happened to it, check out my book "The Taking of MH370,” availalble on Amazon: https://a.co/d/3DePduu Don’t forget to Like, Comment, and Subscribe! Contact me: jeff@jeffwise.net Deep Dive: MH370: About Us: https://www.deepdivemh370.com/about Finding MH370 audio podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6JyFlxPVfImPQj3vr4gOAj Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-dive-mh370-season-2/id1750281366 YouTube Podcasts https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcH7WtY363fExOddSHsd1LY6QGf_oDt2B Pocketcasts: https://pca.st/kvko6qnr Jeff’s Blog: https://www.JeffWise.net Jeff on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/jeffwise.bsky.social