At just fourteen, Thomas Nickerson was the youngest crewmember of the whaleship Essex. When the ship was struck and sunk by a whale, he was launched into one of the most grueling sagas of survival in maritime history.
When Ferdinand Magellan was cut down by natives in the Philippines, the lives of his ships and crew hung in the balance. Juan Sebastian Elcano stepped forward to take comman of the expedition.
Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team explored the legendary shipwrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, lost on the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of 1845. Their research added to the body of knowledge one of history’s greatest maritime mysteries.
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