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Parks Canada 2011 Arctic Expeditions

Image Gallery: HMS Investigator and McClure's Cache

Loading equipment on a Twin Otter plane in Inuvik en route to Polar Bear Cabin in Aulavik National Park.

Loading equipment on a Twin Otter plane in Inuvik en route to Polar Bear Cabin in Aulavik National Park.
© Parks Canada / Brett Seymour, NPS

Loading equipment on a Twin Otter plane in Inuvik en route to Polar Bear Cabin in Aulavik National Park.

Divers filming the interior of HMS Investigator using a camera mounted on a pole.

Archaeologist measuring dimensions of stem post on the bow of HMS Investigator.

Archaeologist measuring the stern post of HMS Investigator.

Archaeologist measuring the stern post of HMS Investigator.

Archaeologist mapping a copper feature on the upper deck of HMS Investigator.

Archaeologist mapping an anchor chain laying on the upper deck of HMS Investigator.

Archaeologist working on the bow of HMS Investigator.

Archaeologist documenting two shoes on upper deck of HMS Investigator.

Archaeologist positioning a shoe on upper deck of HMS Investigator.

Ryan Harris getting in the water.

Archaeologist documenting a plank fashioned to receive an illuminator, a deck light prism that would have provided light to the interior of the ship.

Filming of archaeologist documenting of HMS Investigator.

Recovery of a double-sheave pulley.

Recovery of a double-sheave pulley.

Archaeologist at the bow of HMS Investigator.

Archaeologist documenting a copper sheet partly detached from the hull; the hull of HMS Investigator was covered with copper to protect it from marine organisms.

Long arm on the upper deck of HMS Investigator before its recovery.

Positioning of 3D-mapping laser system.

Archaeologist taking biological samples on the wooden hull.

One of the two Twin Otter planes en route to Polar Bear Cabin in Aulavik National Park.

Camp at Mercy Bay in Aulavik National Park.

Jonathan Moore

Divers coming back to the surface awaited by Ryan Harris.

Detail of the long arm’s lock and trigger guard during its recovery.

Inflatable boat going to the dive site.

Filippo Ronca doing a check-out dive from shore.

Filippo Ronca doing a check-out dive from shore.

Jonathan Moore during the surface positioning of the underwater baseline on the wreck using a total station transit from shore.

Jonathan Moore observing a map of the Arctic at Inuvik airport.

Some team members at Inuvik airport waiting for the departure of a Twin Otter plane for Polar Bear Cabin in Aulavik National Park. Left to right: Thierry Boyer, Jonathan Moore, Filippo Ronca, Marc-André Bernier, Ryan Harris.

Side-scan sonar image of HMS Investigator captured in July 2010 by Parks Canada Underwater Archaeologists.