WOW!!! 168 year old ship found just about perfectly preserved!!!

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http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/this_shipwreck_lay_perfectly_p_1/60282287

Researchers have discovered the intact wreck of what they believe to be the HMS Terror, a British naval ship abandoned 168 years ago at the top of the Victoria Strait in Canada, the Guardian reported.

Scientists from the Arctic Research Foundation, a charitable organization created by tech tycoon Jim Balsillie, found the Terror almost by accident. The team had been searching for the ship for several years and were returning from a recent expedition when images of the wreck appeared on their sounder as they were heading back.

Using a remotely controlled vehicle, they entered the wreck and explored the mess hall, several cabins, and a storage room where they discovered canned goods and bottles of wine. The ship they found matches plans as well as historical accounts of the HMS Terror.

“This vessel looks like it was buttoned down tight for winter and it sank,” Adrian Schimnowski, the foundation’s operations director, told the Guardian. “Everything was shut. Even the windows are still intact. If you could lift this boat out of the water, and pump the water out, it would probably float.”

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1. This is SO COOL!!

THE TERROR by Dan Simmons is a horror novel written in 2007 about the Franklin expedition in which all 129 crew members vanished pretty much without a trace.

Some years after the expedition a few graves were found and later studied by scientists who concluded the men died of pneumonia and perhaps tuberculosis and that lead poisoning may have worsened their health. Cut marks on their bones were seen as signs of cannibalism. The combined evidence of all studies suggested that hypothermia, starvation, lead poisoning and disease including scurvy, along with general exposure to a hostile environment while lacking adequate clothing and nutrition, finally killed them all.

So many books, songs, and movies have been inspired by this lost expedition. That they have finally located this ship is quite amazing.

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3. Even the kitty is excited about it!

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2. K&R n/t