'Ghosts' In The Arctic: How The Long-Lost Franklin Expedition Was Found
In the 1840s, two British crews vanished while seeking a passage through the ice at the top of the world. Paul Watson became "obsessed with the mystery" and tells the story in his new book Ice Ghosts.
The last time I talked with Paul Watson, I reached him aboard a Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker in the Arctic, via satellite phone.
"The captain was glaring at me because we talked for a long time," Watson remembers with a laugh.
That was three years ago, and Watson, a columnist for The Toronto Star, was alongside archaeologists who had just located one of two sunken ships lost in the Franklin Expedition, back in the 1840s.
"It's chilling really to look at it," Watson told
