One of the greatest archaeological discoveries in Canadian history was made this September, when Parks Canada underwater archaeologists finally located the HMS Erebus from Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 Arctic expedition through the Northwest Passage.
But when the ship was first spotted by researchers, they kept their secret for days, says University of Waterloo anthropologist Robert Park. Parks Canada went to great lengths to make sure the news that researchers had found a ship didn't get out immediately, he said.
"These guys gave nothing away," said Park, who had been part of the search team since it first set out in 2008.
"People were aware that when this thing was found there would be a very complicated protocol for how the information got disseminated. We knew this was going to happen but they didn't give anybody any forewarning, so they shut down the internet on the ship, they took away all the satellite phones except for one so that nobody could blow this big news story."
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