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  • No camera, no proof: Why Sammy Kogvik didn't tell anyone about HMS Terror find

    09/16/2016 1:43:48 PM PDT · by jerod · 5 replies
    CBC News ^ | 2016-09-15 | By Katherine Barton, CBC News
    Kogvik took photo with ship's mast 6 years ago, but when he lost his camera, he kept quiet about it. The Nunavut man who led the Arctic Research Foundation to the wreck of HMS Terror says he never talked about the find six years ago, because he wasn't sure people would believe him. It was the account that Gjoa Haven's Sammy Kogvik gave his "boss" — expedition leader Adrian Schimnowski — about the mast he saw sticking out of the water that led to the discovery of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated ship HMS Terror, found earlier this month in the...