Show Date: June 22, 2005  
Pam Eastlick for THE DEEP on line

AMELIA EARHART’S SHOE
AND
WHALING FOR SCIENCE?

Greetings and welcome to The Deep column and the deepest radio show on Earth. The Deep is the science talk radio program that takes you from the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of the universe. This week on The Deep, aired at 6:00 this evening on K-57, we’ll talk about Amelia Earhart and what may have happened to her almost 70 years ago. Then we’ll have some expedition calls. Peter Melyan promises that he’ll tell us about flumin’. What’s flumin’? Tune in tonight to find out! We’ll have some science news updates and discuss the proceedings of a very important international commission. We’ll also be taking your phone calls. Tune in tonight and join host Jim Sullivan, Pam Eastlick and our expedition coordinator Peter Melyan for the latest in scientific news! Then log on to www.thedeepradioshow.com for more information on all the latest and deepest news!

INTO THE UNKNOWN
	The fate of Amelia Earhart remains one of our most enduring mysteries. Amelia Earhart was an American hero. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, just five years after Charles Lindbergh made the trip. She made a record-breaking solo flight from the US mainland. Then she attempted to follow in Wiley Post’s footsteps (wing tips?) and become the first woman to fly around the world at the equator.
If we hopped back in time 68 years from today, we’d discover that the newsreels were following the progress of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan as they flew across the Atlantic and hopped from city to city on their quest for the round-the-world record in their Lockheed Electra. They started on 1 June 1937, from our fellow territory Puerto Rico. From there, they flew to Venezuela, Brazil and then across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa where they landed in Dakar, Senegal.

From Dakar, they made the long hot journey across the heart of Africa. They continued to Eritrea and then flew nonstop to Karachi. They reached Calcutta on 17 June 1937. Then they flew on to Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore and then into Java. From Java, they flew to Port Darwin, Australia via Koepang, Indonesia. They left Port Darwin on 28 June and reached Lae, New Guinea on 29 June after a 1200 mile, 8 hour flight. At 0000 hours GMT, on 2 July 1947, Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea into a typically cloudy tropical sky.

Lae’s time zone is GMT +10, the same time zone that contains Guam, so they left at 10 in the morning. They were never seen again.

There are many theories about their fate. Many people follow the simplest and most likely hypothesis. They simply ran out of fuel and crashed into the water somewhere in the limitless miles of open ocean. But there are many other theories. If you’re a long time listener to The Deep, you’ll recall that Jim followed the archeological expedition on Tinian last year to search for the graves of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. There is speculation they were brought there and executed by the Japanese.

Other theories abound. Our guest on The Deep tonight will be Thomas F. King, co-author of Amelia Earhart’s Shoes: Is the Mystery Solved? Dr. King is a member of the TIGHAR organization. TIGHAR (pronounced tiger) stands for The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, and they have been heavily involved in the Amelia Earhart mystery. Dr. King was on Tinian for that archeological exploration and he will tell us about his book, some of his adventures on Tinian and his latest research. Don’t miss this edition of The Deep.

IS WHALE SONG HEADED FOR A SWAN SONG?
	There may be bad times ahead for the ocean’s whales. The IWC, the International Whaling Commission is meeting this week in Ulsan, South Korea, a former whaling port and there’s a possibility that pro-whaling nations may take control of the Commission for the first time in over 20 years. The showdown pits pro-whaling nations like Japan, Norway and Iceland against anti-whaling nations like New Zealand and Australia.
Japan has already warned that if moratorium on whaling isn’t lifted, it may either walk out, join with other pro-whaling nations to resume commercial whaling or withhold funding from the commission. Japan already does ‘scientific whaling’ and Japanese vessels killed more than 700 whales last year in the name of research.
	Of course, there’s a little scientific problem with what to do with all that dead meat after you finish your studies. Interestingly enough, virtually all of it wound up in Japan’s fish markets and was sold. Japan is expected to inform the IWC this week that it intends to extend its ‘scientific culling’ of minke whales and extend its ‘research’ to humpbacks and fin whales, both of which are endangered species.

Japan insists that the increased numbers of whales are eating so many fish that it’s having a big impact on the Japanese fishing industry. An interesting theory since minkes, humpbacks and fin whales are all baleen whales and they don’t eat fish.

Will these drawings of minkes, humpbacks and fin whales be all that’s left for your children to see? Join us tonight on The Deep to talk about this controversial subject.
Whether we’re learning about the fate of Amelia Earhart or the fate of the ocean’s whales, The Deep, hosted by Jim Sullivan with Pam Eastlick and Peter Melyan is the place to be on K-57 tonight at 6:00 p.m. Don’t miss it!