How the HMS Erebus Shipwreck Could Secure Canada's Arctic Control

``Finding the ship's logs, which in the 19th century were sometimes stored in wax-sealed canisters, could fill in details about the crew's fate. If the divers find credible evidence that the Erebus was manned and actively piloted to the spot where it sank (written records or, perhaps, a steam propeller positioned for use), then it's possible to argue that the Franklin expedition "completed" the Northwest Passage. Of course, Franklin himself would have been dead by then. ''