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From: wmartin@ALMSA-1.ARPA (Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI)
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Subject: Debris search query
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 15:02:39 EST
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In several newscasts earlier this week or over the weekend, I heard
repeated mention that divers and a submersible were trying to get a
look at and retrieve a "large piece of debris which might be the
crew compartment of the shuttle" (paraphrased). Since then, I have heard
no followups, explanations, or retractions about this. Does anybody
have the actual facts about this part of the search? Was there really
a large piece of debris on the ocean floor in that location, and what
was it? And has it been retrieved? Or was it just more of the content-less
blathering to fill airtime that we have seen so much of?

Will Martin
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