i know this is an old thread but i did a search for Eltanin and this thread came up. dont want to get told off for not using the search function
the senior marine biologist on board the Eltanin at the time Dr Thomas Hopkins, said that it couldnt be a plant, he said no-one on board has ever
heard about it before.
it was two geologists who identified it as a plant, Heezen and Hollister as i vaguely recall. could be wrong.
An underwater acoustics researcher Tom DeMary contacted an oceanographer named A.F. Amos, and it was Amos who referred DeMary to Heezen and Hollister
(or something like that).
A search for A.F. Amos found an oceanographer named Anthony F. Amos.
Search also came up with AF AMOS - Air Force Maui Optical Station, whose mission is to research and develop new and evolving electro-optical sensors
(whatever that means).
Just wondering .... could there be some confusion as to which A.F. Amos was contacted? Is there a chance that it was Air Force AMOS that DeMary
contacted and not the oceanographer?
Would it make sense to contact the air force if it was known that it was an antennae they found down there and not a plant? A senior marine biologist
said it couldnt be a plant.
Also wondering ... how would geologists know it was a plant if a marine biologist said it couldnt be?
just asking thats all.