If you have 10 minutes or more please lend a hand to the family of Jim Gray. It takes nothing more than looking at a few pictures to help find a man missing at sea.

Jim is a sailor and scientist who went to scattor his mother’s ashes off the coast of Northern California. He is lost at sea and needs your help. His friends have been able to secure satellite images, but each one needs someone to look at it and decide whether there is something worth investigating.

You can help find Jim Gray by searching New/Updated High Resolution Satellite Imagery

If you would like to know more here are some links to recent information.

Who is Jim Gray

What do you mean Jim is missing?

How can you help?

I don’t know Jim, but I hope he can be found. I hope the internet can change the result. Please spend 10 minutes looking for Jim.

UPDATE 2/8/2007

At this time, Amazon is no longer asking volunteers to work on the project.

The efforts of the Mechanical Turk community during the last several days have been remarkable. Your work has contributed to one of the largest volunteer search efforts ever.

During the last 5 days, Mechanical Turk workers looked at more than 560,000 images from 3 satellites, covering nearly 3,500 square miles of ocean. A group of experts is currently reviewing the images that workers identified, and sending their results to the appropriate authorities.