Canada Finds Wreck of Ship That Traced Northwest Path

Canadian archeologists this week found the wreck of the HMS Investigator, which was part of an expedition by British explorer Robert McClure and was the first to sail the last portion of the Northwest Passage in the Arctic.

“Incredibly, we were able to get out in a zodiac, above the ship wreck yesterday and look down into the clear Arctic water and see all the details of the shipwreck,” Environment Minister Jim Prentice said in a satellite telephone interview from Mercy Bay in Aulavik National Park. “You can actually see all the details of the ship. It’s pretty incredible.”