arctic

Though admittedly not as exciting a find as century-old butter, archaeologists on an Arctic expedition for Parks Canada discovered a sunken British vessel that disappeared in 1845. The ship—a navy vessel called “the Investigator”—had met its unfortunate demise during a rescue mission 155 years ago and was found in the… Read the rest

A proposal by a Canadian archeological firm seeking to test underwater survey equipment in Larsen Sound–an arctic waterway off the coast of Northern Canada–might not be approved on the basis that the location is considered to be the most likely final resting place of two long-lost ships abandoned in the… Read the rest

Most people don’t know that over the past three months the United States and Canada have been involved in a joint effort to map and collect scientific data about the continental shelf and oceanic basins in the Arctic. On October 1st researchers aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy… Read the rest