Steve GannBritish Ship That Sunk In 1853 Found In Arctic
August 18th 2010 13:17
From the AP/MSNBC
"Captained by Robert McClure, the Investigator sailed in 1850. That year, McClure sailed the Investigator into the strait that now bears his name and realized that he was in the final leg of the Northwest Passage, the sea route across North America.
But before he could sail into the Beaufort Sea, the ship was blocked by pack ice and forced to winter-over in Prince of Wales Strait along the east coast of Banks Island."
and this from The Globe and Mail
"Parks Canada had been plotting the discovery of the three ships for more than a year, trying to figure out how to get the crews so far north. Once they arrived and got their bearings, the task seemed easier than originally thought. It took little more than 15 minutes to uncover the Investigator, officials told The Globe and Mail last week. “For a long time the area wasn’t open, but now it is because of climate change,” said Marc-André Bernier, chief of the Underwater Archaeology Service at Parks Canada."
The media can't have it both ways. Either there is as much ice now as there was 150 years ago or the Arctic goes through natural decreases and increases. In addition the ship sank at the end of a mini ice age but yet made it all the way through what was thought to be impassable only five years ago.
This means that we have to rethink our entire discussion on the Arctic ice situation. The Northwest passage is not open this year as the ice has been rebuilding from a 2007 thirty year low.
Al Gore call your office or your massage therapist.
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