00:00two ships vanished in the arctic searchers later found the clues graves in the snow a note hidden in a
00:07cairn a lifeboat dragged across the ice human remains along the coast but of the one hundred and twenty nine
00:15men not one came home
00:18the expedition had left britain searching for the northwest passage two ships every man aboard a route through the frozen
00:27north but the arctic was waiting the ships pushed deeper north then the sea froze around them the ice closed
00:35in and the expedition stopped moving years later three graves were found on beachy island far from home buried in
00:44the frozen ground
00:45but the rest of the men were still missing then came the victory point note franklin was dead the ships
00:54had been abandoned and the survivors were walking south across the ice toward help that never came search crews crossed
01:04the ice they checked the coast the frozen camps the rocky shore but the arctic gave them nothing then searchers
01:12found the lifeboat but it was not near open water
01:15it had been dragged across the ice loaded with supplies and objects the men should never have carried then the
01:21coastline revealed something worse bones some showed cut marks and the final days became even darker theories spread starvation scurvy
01:33lead cold crushing ice but no theory explained every clue generations passed
01:40then the ships were found then the ships were finally found then the ships were finally found Erebus beneath the
01:45water terror resting in the dark but even the wrecks did not tell the whole story no one could explain
01:52the final march the lifeboat the cut marks the abandoned ships or how an entire expedition vanished into the arctic
02:01more than a century and a half later
02:04the franklin expedition remains unsolved two ships were found a trail of clues was left behind but the final answer
02:13vanished into the ice
02:15the ice
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