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A search for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean has resumed after severe weather caused researchers to stop for several days.<\/b><\/p>\n
A team has travelled to Nikumaroro Island, part of Kiribati, hoping to solve the mystery of the famed aviator’s disappearance by investigating the so-called Taraia Object, spotted in the atoll’s lagoon in aerial imagery.<\/p>\n
The American pioneer vanished while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in 1937, spawning decades of speculation about her fate.<\/p>\n
Rough seas and strong winds forced the team to remain on their research vessel for three days, until the weather cleared on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“We are finally getting off the ship and able to land on Nikumaroro,” Sirisha Bandla, a technology specialist who is part of the expedition, said in a video update from the deck of the Marin Mainiku.<\/p>\n
The researchers arrived at the uninhabited atoll last week and began an underwater survey of the area of interest. <\/p>\n
But the weather – powered by strong El Ni\u00f1o conditions in the Pacific<\/a> – has so far prevented them from beginning a second of three phases, in which underwater objects will be probed to determine their depth and sediment will be dredged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n