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‘Keen connection’: Franklin expedition divers say 2023 season was productive

Divers were able to search through areas of the sunk ships they never had before
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FILE — Parks Canada diver Brandy Lockhart picks up a decanter bottle recovered from the HMS Erebus during a dive in August of 2019 in this handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Charles Dagneau, Parks Canada **

If it’s possible to look through the eyes of the past, Jonathan Moore has done it.

The manager of a team of Parks Canada underwater archeologists excavating the rediscovered ships of the doomed Franklin expedition once held in his hands the lens from a pair of eyeglasses fetched from the deep. Then he held it up to his own eye.

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