Underwater technology aids search for Franklin expedition shipwrecks

'Arctic Explorer' descends in an ice hole

Early in September, a team of Canadian underwater archaeologists discovered the wreck of the ''HMS Erebus'' in the eastern stretches of the Queen Maud Gulf off the coast of Canada.

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