07/20/19 #SamoanClipper UPDATE by Russ Matthews Air/Sea Heritage Foundation For those of you who weren’t logged in, I want to share my final words on #Nautiluslive from Expedition NA111–The Search for Samoan Clipper... panam.org/explorations/7… E/V Nautilus SEARCH #panam #aviationhistory

After our record-shattering 125 hours of continuous side-scan surveys by ROV Argus, the search for #SamoanClipper has concluded...for now. Read final thoughts from Russ Matthews Air/Sea Heritage Foundation as the expedition wrapped up in the early hours: nautl.us/2O7T0TZ

On #NautilusLive, sometimes science literally becomes an art! Check out Ocean Science Intern Peyton Lee's graphic travelogues of his experience traveling to Nautilus and joining the search for #SamoanClipper: instagram.com/nautiluslive/

Good luck and good hunting to our shipmates on E/V Nautilus as they pursue another of Aviation's great mysteries!

.SamoanClipper, with Ed Musick in command, seen from Amelia Earhart’s plane on 3/17/37. As #NautilusLive leaves Samoa for Expedition Amelia we share this image of 2 planes and 2 pilots linked in history and now united by 1 ship and 1 mission to reveal the ocean’s deepest secrets

Congrats to E/V Nautilus on completing another challenging #aviationarchaeology survey. #AmeliaEarhart may remain elusive, but we know from our #SamoanClipper mission that plane wrecks in the deep ocean are hard to find! #TheSearchContinues on.natgeo.com/2HrAhNx

Two years later and Walt Holm's "Hunt for Clint Eastwood's AD-1 Skyraider" is heating up. See how it all began. #aviationarchaeology #CintEastwood openexplorer.nationalgeographic.com/expedition/eas…

Thank you Air & Space Magazine - great mention of our recent survey for Samoan Clipper. “Before we left the area, I made two promises to Captain Edwin C. Musick and his crew,” said Matthews. “You are not forgotten. And we are not done with the search for Samoan Clipper.” po.st/s1U2xB

Can’t wait to see this! Amazing work by Dave Steinberg uncovering this often forgotten part of Australian history!!!

Samoan Clipper project team will return the The Explorers Club flag during the Lowell Thomas Awards this weekend. To celebrate we'll be posting flash back pics this week! This is Pago Pago harbor, where we departed aboard E/V Nautilus w/ panamhistory SEARCH Megan Lickliter-Mundon

This is SamoanClipper in Pago Pago harbor in American Samoa prior to 1938, when it disappeared with all crew, including Pan Am's legendary Captain Edwin C. Musick. Our The Explorers Club flag-carrying project was to search the area they were believed to have crashed in with E/V Nautilus tech

Flashback- PI Russ Matthews and SEARCH Arch Dede Mark in the control van aboard E/V Nautilus. Our team stood watch 24/7 in shifts of 4 hours each so not one hour of ocean research is wasted! Team is congregating in DC this weekend for The Explorers Club #LTAD2019

Part of our Samoan Clipper project team attended The Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Awards dinner last night to give back our flag. L to R documentarian Devon Chivvis, historian Lonnie Schorer, archaeologist Megan Lickliter-Mundon, Air/Sea director Russ Matthews, and E/V Nautilus' Allison Fundis

Director Russ Matthews is at #SHA2020 presenting on work done on the aircraft of USS Independence with Sanctuaries (NOAA) Maritime Heritage and E/V Nautilus

Dr Peter Fix, Texas A&M Liberal Arts Nautical Archaeology and also part of Air/Sea Heritage Foundation is speaking on the TBD Devestator Project - photogrammetry #3D modeling and scanning with 3D at Depth to discover ditch damage. #SHA2020

Last year today was the beginning of our mission to search for Pan Am's #SamoanClipper. All our team members are missing being in the field this summer!

Announcing the Ocean Exploration Trust’s 2020 #NautilusLive expedition! Join us as we shine new light on deep sea regions along North America's West Coast, from British Columbia to Southern California w/ NOAA Ocean Exploration Sanctuaries (NOAA) Ocean Networks 🇨🇦. More: NautilusLive.org

Join us now for an underwater cultural heritage dive now -- research by the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation has led to two potential targets to investigate in hopes of finding the wreckage of the Clipper Endeavor. oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explor… #okeanos

Very proud of our collaboration with NOAA Ocean Exploration on Mission Endeavor/EX2206 Dive 5). 2 of 4 prime targets elminated, plus we gained invaluable insight into the character (and beauty) of the undersea search area. Looking forward to the next opportunity to work together!

Remembering the tragic loss of Samoan Clipper, 85 years ago today, while reaffirming our commitment to find the final resting place of seven pioneering aviators (Musick, Sellers, Brunk, MacLean, Stickrod, Brooks, and Findley).