Look for Amelia’s statue at the end of a wharf

Dear Editor:
With reference to the recent Amelia Earhart statue theft story, I would like to share my previous experiences, which may help with the recovery of this bronze statue. This statue is a very hot subject among Newfoundlanders and has become a hard item to fence or to keep around, as there is a substantial reward, and as most local scrap dealers in the Maritimes are, I assume, notified of the theft.
This brings me back to my previous training in the military as a navy ships diver. During my training, I spent many hours underwater around docks and jetties, in the Halifax area, under ship’s hulls doing inspections and ordnance training. You would not believe what was found off the end of most docks.
I reported a floor safe I found a few years back in St. Phillip’s Marina to the RNC, and bronze plates from a historic building in central were found off the end of a community wharf by a local diver doing underwater charity ocean floor cleaning as a hobby.
I feel that if this statue is still around, that it will turn up in a ditch, or most likely off the end of a local wharf in the Harbour Grace and Carbonear area, as there is a substantial reward offered for its recovery. With the local food fishery starting up, and boats being put back in the water, and many people now using drones, and snorkeling with the cheap availability of online wetsuits, every sports minded Newfoundlander on the Northeast Avalon should organize a local community wharf crawl, anywhere a vehicle could drive out to dump items overboard, to see what stones they can flip over.
With a fish glass or a swimming mask you can see very deep before the plankton bloom later in summer. I hope this information helps and inspires people to act, as I am too aged now to be at that. But I still look below the surface out of curiosity. To quote Matthew 7:7-8, “Seek and you will find,” or my old squadron motto, “Seek and Save,” might make for a better ending.
Cheers,
Harry Young, retired from RCAF, Logy Bay, NL.