They’re loading up the ship today that will search for underwater wreckage and other clues to mark the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.

The Hawaiian research vessel “Ka’mikai-o-Kanaloa” will carry underwater robots to the suspected crash site. The ship embarks on July 2 (the actual anniversary of her disappearance).

MSNBC reports: 

Its underwater robots are capable of searching with sonar and taking black-and-white photos down to a depth of almost 5,000 feet (1,500 meters), as well as checking out sonar targets with high-definition video down to a depth of 3,300 feet (1,000 meters).

The search is being put on by a group of aviation archeologists called The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, or TIGHAR. FedEx donated the shipping costs to get some 29,000 pounds of equipment from the east coast to Honolulu.

More from the MSNBC report:

(TIGHAR) suspects that Earhart’s Lockheed Electra landed on a reef of the uninhabited coral atoll formerly known as Gardner Island and stayed there for several days before waves washed the aircraft over the reef’s edge — perhaps enough time for the aviator and her navigator to have sent out radio distress calls. The expedition plans to deploy ship sonar and two robot submersibles to search the slope of the underwater reef for any aircraft parts.

Photo courtesy of Flickr user Son of Groucho.