Divers recover bell from long-lost British shipwreck

Divers recover bell from long-lost British shipwreck

A team of divers has retrieved the bronze bell from the shipwreck of the HMS Erebus. The British ship was missing for almost 170 years after it sank in the Canadian Arctic.

Parks Canada, who had been searching for the ship since 2008, finally captured sonar images of the shipwreck in the Queen Maud Gulf earlier this year after conducting six searches.

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Meghan DeMaria

Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.