I imagine I will not be the first to digest this lecture, not only due to a long fascination with the Franklin expedition, but also due to recently devouring 'The Terror' (dramatised but an absolutely top-shelf series)

When I was little kid, I read "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras" by Jules Verne, and in that book Franklin is mentioned 138 times. The book was published in 1866, and at that time little was known about lead poisoning. It amazes me that people are not aware also about the role of lead poisoning in the fall of Roman Empire..

Good lord how can you take a fascinating subject, and turn it in to snorefest.

This is a good use of time, but know what it is and isn't. This is an academic style lecture, from folks that are good lecturers, but not necessarily intriguing speakers. Very interesting information shared, but at times it seems the speakers struggle to tell the story. And that's essentially it, they are presenting information but they aren't telling a story, because they just aren't great story tellers as presenters! They do talk about how many partners it took to find the ship, but I really appreciate that because the scope of this effort was ENORMOUS and spanned over decades! We should, as learners, be subjected to the scope of what it takes to perform the marvelous feats of Arctic/Underwater Archeology,  and to find such a sunken ship. Lastly, there is no mystery in the fact that the Inuit Peoples were infinitely better at surviving, understanding and living in Arctic conditions. They were experts. This is not pandering, it just facts. To say it is simply being factually sound - Inuit folks lived for decades in this area while these British explorers died. White British folks weren't the experts at the Arctic, they had courage, even if it was ill founded and got them all killed. That's also a fact of this story. But without that exploration, this sense of courage, over confidence, grit, will, vision and bravado, the considerable and deadly miscalculation, we all wouldn't be here today, listening to this great and harrowing tale and learning from its fate. How fortunate are we that in our lifetime, the Erebus was found, and we get to hear about it via this lecture on the internet, for free. Thank you Canada!

I just saw the documentary about the Franklin expedition yesterday and I was so intrigued that I wanted to know more about it. This is so much fun. Research at it's best. Mumbling guys being proud. Great job. Thanks, from Belgium, a long way from Canada, but close to the heart, always gratefully and sincerely yours. La Belgique. Arctic explorers since the very beginning. And in loving memory of all the Canadians who died to save my little country from tiranny.

Great video, but they don't half drone on... they've found the HMS Terror and Erebus...That's cool.

incredibile storia

Why don't the Canadians get together with the British, raise those ships (or one of them), restore it & have it as a museum. Imagine the tourism & interest it'd create. Hell, they make crappy feature films costing 60, 80, 100 million dollars but here's a project worth doing and no one can find the funding!! The world's in a bad way!

This is about the Franklin Expedition.It went horribly.This Expedition was to search for a Northwest Passage.Lead Poisoning and Scurvy led to their demise.Along with the harsh winters added to their demise.The ships were stuck in the ice and they left the ships to head South Along the west  Part of King William Island.They were heading to the Back River.Along the route,The crew of these ships walked along the way with provisions and sledging boats across the ice.The men were exhausted and tired.From not eating properly, and not being able to think properly, from lead poisoning and scurvy effects,the men fell and died on the route.It is a tragic story.HMS TERROR and HMS EREBUS have both been located.The investigation continues. Being exposed to cold weather and the elements is very hard to say the least.

They found the other ship as well.

Very interesting. Obviously lots updated since this lecture. Unfortunately boffins don’t make for the best storytellers 😬😊

This should help you see why it takes so long to accomplish anything when governments are involved.

Make that two ships !

What they fail to tell is the Eskimos told them where they were and they did not listen . Had the Eskimos been able to tell Franklin he was going the wrong way , I have no doubt he would have also brushed them off .   Why listen to people who lived there all their lives and for generations ? Why listen to someone who was not white . Did Custer listen to his scouts ? His best scout , Bloody Knife ,  put his death mask on preparing to die , which he did , and he still did not listen . I'm 71 years old and my family laughted at me when I told them we would be paying for water when I was 5 years old !

Does anyone know why the Erebus was located 50 km south in shallow waters from the terror? Did it sail there with the crew still alive? Did it drift there abandoned by the current ? A question that keeps going through my mind as I thought they should of been frozen in the ice till at least 1850 with the weather reports.

The Best Documentary Ever? ....Are you high??

I guess when this gathering was filmed the discovery was still pretty new and thus not a lot of information about the events and experiences of the crew has been gleaned yet?

Je souhaite à nos amis canadiens tout le succès possible dans l'exploration des ressources naturelles encore inexploitées et j'espère qu'ils coopéreront avec la Fédération de Russie dans un esprit de confiance, car nous devons lutter contre l'exploitation impitoyable des ressources naturelles par les États-Unis avec un rempart.

Tuunbaq be like: well, I could have told you where it was but you didn't ask.