In 2004, the team used a Polar Vision 'Strike Master' handheld depth sonar, an Imagenex Side Scan Sonar, GPS and a drop camera.
They covered much of the lake with lines 50 metres apart. The team detected and recorded one very interesting image at a depth of 123 feet. The camera was deployed, but proved difficult to maneuver. However, it gave suspicious pictures which looked like the leading edge of a wing, and one of a can lying on its side.
In the final analysis, it too was a natural limnological feature in the 'rock floor' - a fine hard packed silica and feldspar mineral dust created by the last glacial period.
The team conducted limited shore surveys and visited Boulanger's now derelict main camp where McRorie and Forrest stayed just prior to leaving with their native guides and dog teams for Little Grand Rapids.
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Tales from the sky
As Patrick Madden wrote in the winter of 2003...
"I believe we now have an incredible team and are very close to discovering where this elusive 'Ghost' has been hiding all these 70+ years.
We are looking forward to next year and will continue the scanning further out from shore.
We believe that the plane, which froze into the ice over the winter, drifted further out from the shore with the ice floe in the spring, and when it finally let go, soared further through the water on to the bottom.
The 'Ghost' cannot and will not remain elusive much longer."
