CALGARY—Two Calgary researchers are making waves for being the first to discover the remnants of a whaling wreck in Canadian Arctic waters. Matthew Ayre, a climate historian, and Michael Moloney, an underwater archeologist, uncovered the remains of a Scottish whaling ship that crashed on a reef on the east coast of Baffin Island 116 years ago. With a drone, a dingy and only an eight-hour window, University of Calgary researchers Matthew Ayre and Michael Moloney located the previously unknown wreckage. I was reading one of these log books and I came across an account of the Nova Zembla being wrecked on a reef,” Ayre said. We can deduce that it was most likely Nova Zembla.” Ayre said the goal is to go back to the island and study the wreckage.

Source: thestar September 11, 2018 22:52 UTC