Deep Sea Vision (DSV), a South Carolina-based firm, released a sonar image and said it was captured after an extensive search in an area of the Pacific to the west of Earhart’s planned ...

Tony Romeo and his Deep Sea Vision team — who captured the sonar image of the familiar-looking object during a December expedition to find the plane — are planning a second trip to the site.

The company said in January that members of the expedition debated whether to release the sonar image, with Deep Sea Vision asserting that the discovery wasn’t one for the record books without ...