Robot cameras were used to probe inside the HMS Terror for the first time since it was discovered four years ago. But because of the COVID-19 pandemic, access to the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in waters off King William Island in Nunavut is closed to all but local Inuit Guardians keeping watch on the sites, and those with harvesting rights in the surrounding waters. Bernier, right, gets a hand from colleague Jonathan Moore as he shows diving equipment for the exploration project in Ottawa on Sept. 10, 2014. The team has been able to use the photos and videos taken on both ships to work on mapping them out. HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, shown in the Illustrated London News published on May 24, 1845, left England that year under the command of Sir John Franklin in the search of the Northwest Passage.

Source: CBC News August 16, 2020 11:37 UTC