ancient disaster

yes i am reading the franklin books again

amundsen wore a version of these inuit sunscreen glasses (and also when relevant travelled by night when the sun would be behind them)
vs
scott ... did not

powered up youtube to watch a slew of mostly terrible "documentaries" about franklin via inuit testimony -- including a video of a talk by david c.woodman to accompany the franklin exhibition that greenwich maritime museum put on in 2018-19 which then toured to canada: woodman wrote the book that put inuit testimony upfront (two books in fact) and is a big cheery bear of a man whose life's dream (finding erebus and terror) worked out p well (erebus was found on the sea bed not far from where he thought it would be; terror was found sunk in terror bay and not -- as he thought -- in erebus bay) (erebus ba is also not where erebus was found and terror bay wasn't called that bcz the terror was sunk there)

woodman could not work his powerpoint slides and talked almost as much abt that as about the topic at hand (why was inuit testimony ignored for so long: ans = it wasn't really, it just too until the 21st century for the technology to back up what the inuit had always been saying) (which some people had believed and others had not)

anyway the exciting thing is that he believes the famous big corpse with very long teeth may yet be discovered on one of the wrecks (most likely terror) and that the vaults with the log books exist and will one day also be found

i also watched half of a very bad youtube on how the first searches were organised, with a terrible narrator and no hint that the iced up ships were remanned and sailed on from the place they first froze into the ice and have now been tracked down. the one good anecdote was that some prankster claimed a franklin message balloon had come to earth in their gloucester garden in 1851. franklin had no such balloons tho they were used in some of the searches for him, and they weren't -- as the youtube vid said -- "helium balloons", bcz helium wasn't theorised for another 15 years and only isolated in the 1890s

I know a song about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9H-Jt7_OJE