Certainly very interesting. I wonder what sort of depth the water is in the area, and to what depth it freezes in the winter. If the ice is deep enough it could move any wreckage some distance.

Objects such as steel engine cores can be found fairly easily with magnetometers, just a case of systematic surveying.

Being so close to Prudhoe you’d like to think the oil industry might assist in such a project, after all they’re the ones who are trying to develop the continental shelf off Alaska.