80 Years Later, Polar Explorer's Sunken Ship Floats Again
By Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor | October 13, 2016 02:00pm ET
Amundsen used the ship to explore the Arctic from 1918 to 1925. His team recorded many scientific observations and successfully sailed through a Northeast passage from Norway to Alaska. The Maud, then owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, sank after it sprung a leak in 1930.
Credit: Jan Wanggaard/Maud Returns Home
For the first time in more than 80 years, the Maud is floating above the sea surface.
The sturdy oak ship, made to withstand Arctic winters stuck in pack ice, was originally built for the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, the first human to arrive at the South Pole. In 1930, the ship sank in shallow water off the coast of Cambridge Bay, in northern Canada's remote Victoria Island.
This past summer, a Norwegian salvage expedition says they successfully raised the wreck onto a barge. [See Images of the Maud Being Raised Out of the Water]
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