Posted on 08/15/2008 8:07:01 PM PDT by Aglooka
OTTAWA - The Canadian government confirmed Friday it will embark on the most extensive search ever for the fabled British shipwrecks Erebus and Terror, with Environment Minister John Baird saying the hunt led by Parks Canada scientists will boost "our case for sovereignty" in Arctic waters.
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The six-week search - the first season in what could be a three-year project headed by Parks Canada’s senior underwater archeologist Robert Grenier and Inuit historian Louie Kamoukak - is set to get under way within days aboard a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker.
Both of the expedition leaders attended a news conference Friday in Ottawa with Baird, who described the lost Franklin ships as something akin to an “Indiana Jones mystery,” adding: “We want it to be a Canadian mission. We don’t want Hollywood to get there first.”
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The retreat of Arctic ice and the opening of the Northwest Passage have increased the sense of urgency among polar nations — including Canada, Russia, Denmark, Norway and the U.S. - to secure rights to seabed territory and a potential bonanza of undersea oil under the terms of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Next week, another Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker - the Louis S. St-Laurent - will begin a seabed survey in the Beaufort Sea to collect data in support of Canada’s seabed claims, to be submitted to the UN by 2013.
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Also, interesting news on Canadian sovereignty
Ping.
Pretty interesting but they will never find them.
Some US planes were lost during WWII and later found several miles away and hundreds of feet beneath the ice. Some of the planes were crushed by the ice and that was only sixty years.
There will be nothing left of wooden ships after 150 years if they can fidn them.
I like this kind of stuff but reality is reality.
They may not find intact ships, but there is a lot of archaeological value in the contents of the ships which would be scattered on the seabed.
it's available at Youtube and one of my absolute favorites from Stan, God rest his soul
Note: this topic is from 8/15/2008. Thanks Aglooka.
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