摘要
A fter nearly 100 days at sea,the crew had given up.They had logged nearly 12,000 miles aboard the Offshore Surveyor,[a chartered 110-foot research vessel out of Papua New Guinea],crisscrossing the equator near the 180th meridian.
勘探者找到埃尔哈特葬身海底的最后安歇地了吗?航行海上近100天后,船上的人员都放弃了。他们乘坐在一艘长110英尺、从巴布亚新几内亚出发的租用调查船“近海探测号”(直译),航行了将近12000英里,在靠近180°经线的赤道纵横穿梭。