Citizen Science [Finding MH370 S2Ep22]

REMINDER: 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 at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/findingmh370/the-finding-mh370-project In today’s episode we discuss a new approach to gathering the Lepas data that could help us finally understand 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 achieving all of its goals, it was a great demonstration of how the idea could work in the future, and gave us important ideas for improvements going forward. #MH370 #unsolvedmystery #mystery #unexplained 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: [email protected] 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 Twitter: https://x.com/ManvBrain