Maxwell Updates with a Press Relaease and Sam's on TV Again

Update 2/2- The Maxwell Group site has returned after disappearing for a day, and it's had some enhancements (thanks oodles and tallone).

• If you're having trouble with the site, you can still access and download an mp3 of the press release here.
  
• *If you download the mp3 and then look at the properties (right click-properties) there are some letters and numbers in the "comments" area. So what's this all about?

00000062 00000073 00002140 00001429 000000B6
000138F5 00007DB1 00006151 000000D0 000138DB

Oceanic Air Commercial

1/31- 11:02 pm: During the show Eli Stone on ABC, they had an Oceanic commercial. In it they are touting a "Golden Pass" but Sam hacks the commercial. (Please excuse the video quality...I did my best.)

• There are some undersea pictures of the wreckage of Flight 815.
  
• Sam tells us, "We found it," and "You can't trust these people."
  
• The flight attendants in the commercial continue to direct us to www.FlyOceanicAir.com for details.
  
• DocArtz has the HQ version of the commercial up.
  
• Find815 has a new look. It seems they are trying to attract all of the Lost viewers that missed the game the first time around.

The Maxwell Group Updates

1/31- 11:27 pm: The Maxwell Group site has a new press release from Oscar Talbot.

• There's an audio interview there detailing how they found the wreckage. Click here or here (UCLAradio link from the page) to listen.
• The Maxwell Group reports a new message when you attempt to log-in as of 7:01 am 2/1:
  

  Authentication Error

  The username or password you entered was incorrect.
  
  Click here to return to homepage
  
  Server updated and secured.

*Robin Hood sent us some reversed audio blips on 1/31 from Sam's final video diary.

• HERE is the version Robin Hood sent.
  
• Fenris did some noise reduction, and compressed and normalized it. HERE is the modified version.
  
• After listening to both I can hear the words "two" (at 1 min. 21 sec. in the press release) "common" (at 1 min. 27 sec. in the press release) and "half-hour" (at 1 min. 46 sec. in the press release) in both sets of audio.
  
• These "blips" are certainly sound bytes from the press release. ~Ange

Chapter 5 - Find the Black Rock.... or did we?

Today's final update starts with a video of Ockham communicating with the crew of the Christiane 1 to lower the ship's ROV. Ockham is counting as they lower the ROV. The final number he says is 480. Is that 480 feet?

Once this is successfully done, we are led to the...

FINAL ACTIVITY

Find the Black Rock:

• The object of the game is to maneuver the ROV through ten different way points that could be the Black Rock.
• You have 3 minutes to complete the activity.
• If you have a slow internet connection you are advised to click the low resolution button.
• Thewonderllama sent in a PICTURE of one of the paths that works. (Thanks!)
  

Upon completion of the activity we are given our...

FINAL VIDEO

• As Sam watches the ROV top a crest on the ocean floor, Oceanic Flight 815 comes into view.
• Sam is extremely distraught!
• Talbot has a very smug look on his face.
• Then the video changes to Sam watching the news about how Oceanic Flight 815 was discovered. The news anchor reports that sympathies are flooding in for Sam Thomas.
• The news cuts to an interview with Oscar Talbot. Apparently Talbot "hopes this discovery will bring some closure to the families". Talbot says "Sam had studied every aspect of the plane and in an extraordinary twist of fate, he had his answer"!

FINAL THOUGHTS

As usual, there are screencaps posted in Oceanic-Conspiracies Photobucket Album.

It seems were are left with a lot of unanswered questions. Talbot's final words have me thinking that we were right all along about this being an "accidental" find. What do you think? Who is Oscar Talbot working for? Exactly how deep was the wreckage? I would assume that since Sam used an ROV to find it, it was too deep to "recover" the bodies. How did it get there? Who put it there? Last, but not least, how will they explain finding the wreckage in the Sunda Trench?

In closing, I just wanted to say (and I am sure I speak for the whole Oceanic-Conspiracies Team) how much I have enjoyed working with everyone here. I can't wait for S4 tonight! I look forward to chatting with everyone over at The Lost Community!

Thanks Everyone!

Thanks to Robin Hood who sent us some reversed audio from the video diary from last night. No doubt there is a voice in there. I've uploaded the file as sent (it is reversed, trimmed audio from the video). I also did some noise reduction, compression and normalization on it and put the modified version. HERE is the original, and HERE is the modified version. Check it out and post what you think it says. ~Fenris

NOTE: Don't forget, in theory the Maxwell site goes live at 7:08PM EST. So there may be one more part to this puzzle.