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Title: Arctic shipwreck frozen in time astounds archaeologists
Post by: corbe on August 28, 2019, 05:07:29 pm

Arctic shipwreck frozen in time astounds archaeologists

Roff Smith
 
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© Screenshot courtesy Parks Canada, Underwater Archaeology Team
To investigate the lower decks of the H.M.S. Terror, a Parks Canada archaeologist inserts a miniature underwater drone through a skylight.


The wreck of H.M.S. Terror, one of the long lost ships from Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage, is astonishingly well preserved, say Parks Canada archaeologists, who recently used underwater drones to peer deep inside the historic vessel’s interior.

“The ship is amazingly intact,” says Ryan Harris, the lead archaeologist on the project. “You look at it and find it hard to believe this is a 170-year-old shipwreck. You just don’t see this kind of thing very often.”

Discovered in 2016 in icy waters off King William Island in Canada’s far north, the shipwreck hadn’t been thoroughly studied until now. Taking advantage of unusually calm seas and good underwater visibility, a team from Parks Canada, in partnership with Inuit, earlier this month made a series of seven dives on the fabled wreck. Working swiftly in the frigid water, divers inserted miniature, remotely-operated drones through openings in the main hatchway and skylights in the crew’s cabins, officers’ mess, and captain’s stateroom.

“We were able to explore 20 cabins and compartments, going from room to room,” says Harris. “The doors were all eerily wide open.”

What they saw astonished and delighted them: dinner plates and glasses still on shelves, beds and desks in order, scientific instruments in their cases—and hints that journals, charts, and perhaps even early photographs may be preserved under drifts of sediment that cover much of the interior.

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Title: Re: Arctic shipwreck frozen in time astounds archaeologists
Post by: corbe on August 28, 2019, 05:10:18 pm

   Josh Ritter ~ "Another New World"

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Title: Re: Arctic shipwreck frozen in time astounds archaeologists
Post by: Absalom on August 28, 2019, 05:33:24 pm

Cold/ice prevent decay a scientific fact
obviously unknown to this journo!