One of our most exciting “Inner Space Seminars”
Videos, updates and discussion with Joseph Frey
Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 at 7:00 pm
– A fascinating presentation of an extraordinary story: the history, search and discovery of Franklin’s ships the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror
– Joseph Frey of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society had us all enthralled with the story of forensic archeology, the precise and careful nature of underwater archeology, the politics, the research, Victorian technology, his first hand experience when the HMS Erebus was discovered, the difficulty of working in the Arctic, and the latest research into the Franklin Expedition.
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The Reading Material
What lies beneath, by Joseph Frey
A chance encounter resulted in the breakthrough to solve one of exploration history’s biggest mysteries. What happened to Sir John Franklin’s N orthwest Passage expedition which resulted in the loss of all 129 men? Joseph Frey tells the amazing story of how HMS Erebus was finally found after 168 years lost in the Arctic.
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Update on Erebus — and — Michael Palin on Erebus, by Joseph Frey
Just as the ice-clogged waters of the N orthwest Passage doomed Sir John Franklin’s 1845 British Arctic Expedition, the 2018 summer played havoc with both commercial shipping and the Parks Canada Erebus 2018 marine archaeology expedition.
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Unprecedented look inside the wreck HMS Terror, by Joseph Frey
Parks Canada recently released never-before-seen images and video footage of HMS Terror that summarized the 2019 field season on the site.
Read the article
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The videos
“Parks Canada explores the wreck of HMS Erebus and collects new artifacts” https://youtu.be/H33xOPlqrWQ (5 min)
“Parks Canada Guided Tour Inside HMS Terror”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxyTZ3F7mkA&feature=youtu.be (7 min)
“Franklin’s lost ships”
https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/m_episodes/franklins-lost-ships (44 min)
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The taped presentation by Joseph Frey
– taped version of the seminar: “Of Terror and of Hell: The Franklin mass disaster”
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Index:
– Inner Space Seminars