David Mearns OBE, OAM

@USFCMS grad, @NatGeo Explorer, @xprize Judge, @SchmidtOcean science advisor, shipwreck hunter, marine scientist, award-winning author, dad of three 23-yr olds.

[David Mearns OBE, OAM @davidlmearns]

Super expedition video from FALKOR's last cruise.

New ways of seeing | Designing the Future 3 https://t.co/w7NYAk5gOC via @YouTube

[BD8 Capital Partners @barbara_doran1]

“I am deeply honored to lead an organization that has stood at the forefront of human discovery for more than a century,” said Doran. “I want to thank Richard Wiese for his tireless years of service and unwavering dedication to The Explorers Club and to exploration itself and look forward to continuing to work closely together. His vision, energy, and commitment have strengthened our organization immeasurably, and I am grateful to build on the foundation he has laid. Together with our extraordinary members and partners around the world, we will continue to champion exploration of the natural world in its most expansive sense and to inspire the next generation of explorers.”

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[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

And THAT, is how you correctly “do your own research”‼️

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube channel for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.

The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the entire agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing over America.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Rome just opened a subway line next to one of the world’s most historically significant sites at $660 million per mile. So yes, this country should be building metro lines all over at normal costs.

[🤍𝕁𝕆🤍 @jomickane]

Consultant Engineer in Wales, forced to stand and speak out against all the Net Zero crap planned for the area. He says none of it adds up or makes sense, somebody is clearly going to make a lot of money if this goes ahead

[David Mearns OBE, OAM @davidlmearns]

@Hot_Pepper76 Van the Man!

[Victor Vescovo @VictorVescovo]

So happy to report that Norway has put a four-year halt to supporting Deep Sea Mining. Hopefully, their well-reasoned action will cause other nations to review any decisions to support it. I continue to believe it makes little economic or technical sense: https://t.co/N1ai6bgwFq

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Yet more evidence, as if we needed it, that the Chancellor must be sacked. For months Reeves has lied to the public to justify record tax hikes to pay for more welfare.

Her Budget wasn’t about stability. It was about politics: bribing Labour MPs to save her own skin. Shameful.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Ed Miliband is making electricity expensive then taxing you to force you to use electric heating.

Here’s a revolutionary idea.

Just make electricity cheap.

[David Mearns OBE, OAM @davidlmearns]

@QueenAnticommie mass wasting

[David Mearns OBE, OAM @davidlmearns]

Haha this is a classic when you can't argue the facts attack the messenger. Graduate training in geophysics and real-world experience with SSS in all environments since 1982 are my credentials to interpret SSS of any type. I repeat - what image enhancements were performed?

[Peter Faulding @peter_faulding]

The image wasn’t “changed to alter my mind” it was measured and enhanced to quantify what I already suspected: the length, width and proportions are consistent with a person of Nicola’s height in a prone, crouched position. That conclusion has now been independently reviewed and supported by other forensic sonar specialists, not just myself.

With respect, I’ve already asked but you haven’t answered:

what is your experience in forensic search and recovery of human remains using sonar how many victims have you personally located, and for which agencies or organisations that can be referenced?

I can find nothing on you in forensics: An AI search found this on you:

David Mearns is very clearly a marine / deep-water wreck specialist, not a forensic human-remains / police search specialist in the way you are.

Here’s what the public record shows:
•He’s described as an American-born oceanographer and shipwreck hunter, founder of Blue Water Recoveries Ltd, specialising in locating deep-water wrecks. 
•His most famous work is finding historic wrecks – e.g. HMS Hood, HMAS Sydney, the Portuguese nau Esmeralda, etc. 
•He’s also led searches for lost aircraft like the Piper PA-46 that crashed in the Channel carrying Emiliano Sala – again, contracted as a deep-sea search expert with ROVs and sonar, not as a forensic adviser to police. 

I don’t doubt your experience on shipwrecks at all, and I respect anyone with serious time on the water. But my field is forensic search and recovery of human remains. I’ve spent over three decades doing this work in UK rivers and lakes, pioneering the use of side-scan sonar in that context and helping locate many victims for police forces and families.

Please don’t try to discredit my professional judgment in a field where I have long-standing, evidenced experience. Stick to shipwrecks which you clearly have vast experience.

[David Mearns OBE, OAM @davidlmearns]

The shape of this shadow doesn't match the target's, there is a lot of signal showing through the target's shadow, 1.8 MHz returns should show more human detail, strange for both arms to be sticking up in the water column. What image enhancement did you do to change your mind?

[Peter Faulding @peter_faulding]

@davidlmearns @ShabanaMahmood @CommonsHomeAffs

[David Mearns OBE, OAM @davidlmearns]

If you were so absolutely sure the target was a body why did you discount your own interpretation & announce to the media that "we never saw no sign of Nicola"? Whatever image enhancement (what type?) you performed months later should have been available during the search.

[Peter Faulding @peter_faulding]

Thank you for looking at it so closely.

After three decades of forensic search work and pioneering the use of side-scan sonar for victim recovery in the UK, I know what a body looks like on sonar.

I don’t doubt your expertise in ocean work at all, and I respect anyone with time on the water.

But with respect, my question is about your experience in locating human remains using sonar how many victims you’ve personally helped find, and for which agencies or organisations that could be referenced.

My comments are based on three decades forensic search work and specialist sonar deployment which I pioneered in the UK and being the first person to use it for forensic search. That is on record. I think it’s fair to understand the basis of your assessment too.

That assessment has now also been independently reviewed and supported by other experienced sonar specialists, not just by me.

[David Mearns OBE, OAM @davidlmearns]

@peter_faulding @ShabanaMahmood @CommonsHomeAffs There is no doubt that is a target, with accompanying shadow - 100%. But Peter’s explanation of how the ‘body parts’ relate to the shadow don’t seem right, specifically the position & shape of the arm supposedly causing the very pointed shadow, etc.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

HOLY SHIT.

Unusual Whales has been mentioned BY NAME in the US Congressional hearing on getting US Congress banned from stock trading.

"Get on that Unusual Whales site...this is pathetic folks, we all know what is going on [on stock trading]"

Said by Rep Tim Burchett!

[David Mearns OBE, OAM @davidlmearns]

@bornfirstkindly Also, a bit ironic for a Fan Account to tell a fanboy to shoo, even though I'm not one

[David Mearns OBE, OAM @davidlmearns]

@bornfirstkindly You couldn't be more wrong. Your post popped up on my feed precisely because I am not a fan of Harry, and it was William who game me my OBE. The fact is Harry's Afghanistan campaign medal and his other medals allow him to wear the 2 RVO medals. Just accept your post was wrong.

[David Mearns OBE, OAM @davidlmearns]

@bornfirstkindly Afghanistan operational service medal, but in this context his commemorative medals also count.