Crew searching for Amelia Earhart’s plane lands on remote island infested with carnivorous crabs

Weather and ocean conditions “will continue to play a role,” the researchers say, and El Niño could limit daily access to the coasts. Michael Krivor, a marine archaeologist on the trip, said he was currently concerned about a weather pattern moving from east to west that could interfere with “the safety of transit in and out of the destroyed canals.”