1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:08,216 --> 00:00:11,344 MARK: To me, the definition of adventure is to be 4 00:00:11,428 --> 00:00:14,806 facing an uncertain future, 5 00:00:14,973 --> 00:00:20,645 where you have a strong hand in guiding your own fate. 6 00:00:21,938 --> 00:00:23,481 And I just love that idea. 7 00:00:23,565 --> 00:00:25,734 That's why I love adventure and that's why I love stories 8 00:00:25,817 --> 00:00:28,820 like the Franklin mystery. 9 00:00:31,698 --> 00:00:36,703 Arctic explorer John Franklin set off from England in 1845 10 00:00:36,786 --> 00:00:41,374 with two ships and 128 men. 11 00:00:42,584 --> 00:00:45,628 Trying to be the first to make it through 12 00:00:45,712 --> 00:00:48,548 the Northwest Passage. 13 00:00:49,132 --> 00:00:53,928 A new trade route up over the top of the world and 14 00:00:54,012 --> 00:00:56,806 they disappeared, without a trace. 15 00:00:56,890 --> 00:01:00,769 129 guys, vanished into the ether. 16 00:01:05,565 --> 00:01:08,735 And in the years since, more than 100 expeditions 17 00:01:08,943 --> 00:01:12,989 have gone to the Arctic to try to figure out what happened. 18 00:01:13,990 --> 00:01:16,826 And nobody has been able to figure it out. 19 00:01:18,495 --> 00:01:21,998 There are clues about what happened, 20 00:01:22,082 --> 00:01:23,792 and I think I have figured out a way 21 00:01:23,875 --> 00:01:27,087 to solve this mystery once and for all. 22 00:01:31,466 --> 00:01:36,846 ♪ ♪ 23 00:01:43,853 --> 00:01:50,485 (theme music plays) 24 00:02:05,333 --> 00:02:09,337 ♪ ♪ 25 00:02:09,420 --> 00:02:13,216 The Franklin expedition spent their first winter 26 00:02:13,299 --> 00:02:15,135 at a place called Beechey Island, 27 00:02:15,301 --> 00:02:19,722 which is sort of the entrance to the Northwest Passage. 28 00:02:23,393 --> 00:02:28,106 In 1984, a team went up there 29 00:02:28,189 --> 00:02:29,941 to investigate three graves, 30 00:02:30,024 --> 00:02:32,819 for three of Franklin's men. 31 00:02:33,528 --> 00:02:36,156 MAN (over film): Oh, look at the discoloration in there. 32 00:02:36,239 --> 00:02:39,159 Careful. 33 00:02:39,492 --> 00:02:41,995 There is something else, look at that. 34 00:02:43,037 --> 00:02:46,124 MARK: And they exhumed the three bodies. 35 00:02:46,249 --> 00:02:47,500 MAN (over film): Meltwater next. 36 00:02:47,584 --> 00:02:49,294 Lot of ice in there. 37 00:02:49,377 --> 00:02:51,880 MARK: They were frozen solid into ice. 38 00:02:51,963 --> 00:02:54,007 MAN (over film): You could see how his face was desiccated, 39 00:02:54,090 --> 00:02:55,967 and the mummified, 40 00:02:56,050 --> 00:02:59,554 the soft tissues have diminished in volume. 41 00:03:00,221 --> 00:03:02,765 MARK: For me, the most compelling thing about 42 00:03:03,099 --> 00:03:06,269 that story is the images of Franklin's men, 43 00:03:06,352 --> 00:03:09,147 and they're haunting. 44 00:03:15,737 --> 00:03:17,071 MAN (over film): Oh, look at that hand. 45 00:03:17,155 --> 00:03:18,990 That is really well preserved. 46 00:03:19,199 --> 00:03:21,117 Now this sort of thing has never been seen before. 47 00:03:21,242 --> 00:03:23,119 This is absolutely unique. 48 00:03:23,453 --> 00:03:25,371 MARK: I don't think there's anybody who could see those 49 00:03:25,788 --> 00:03:30,585 pictures and not be moved by it, and to be thinking about 50 00:03:30,668 --> 00:03:33,713 what that must have been like to die that first winter 51 00:03:33,796 --> 00:03:35,423 up in the Arctic. 52 00:03:35,506 --> 00:03:39,385 Sub-zero, there's polar bears. 53 00:03:40,011 --> 00:03:43,598 The level of suffering and like how grim and scary 54 00:03:43,681 --> 00:03:46,601 it must have gotten. 55 00:03:47,977 --> 00:03:49,854 129 guys. 56 00:03:50,063 --> 00:03:52,774 So not a single one of them made it out to tell the tale 57 00:03:52,857 --> 00:03:56,027 of what happened. 58 00:03:58,655 --> 00:04:03,243 Imagine if someone that you cared about deeply disappeared. 59 00:04:03,826 --> 00:04:07,455 You know, imagine like, if your son or your daughter or 60 00:04:07,538 --> 00:04:09,874 your brother or your sister disappeared. 61 00:04:09,958 --> 00:04:11,584 Would you be okay with that? 62 00:04:11,668 --> 00:04:13,628 Or would you become consumed with wanting 63 00:04:13,711 --> 00:04:16,923 to know what happened? 64 00:04:17,423 --> 00:04:19,342 And there's people out there who are still trying to 65 00:04:19,425 --> 00:04:22,220 figure it out and trying to solve it. 66 00:04:23,972 --> 00:04:26,057 TOM: The Franklin mystery is a puzzle. 67 00:04:26,140 --> 00:04:29,018 You know, it it's a puzzle with the pieces missing. 68 00:04:29,102 --> 00:04:32,105 So we've got to try and not only put together what we've got, 69 00:04:32,230 --> 00:04:34,315 but we've got to try and recreate some of those pieces 70 00:04:34,565 --> 00:04:36,818 and fit them together. 71 00:04:40,738 --> 00:04:44,742 MARK: Tom has dedicated the better part of his adult life 72 00:04:44,826 --> 00:04:49,038 to trying to solve the Franklin mystery. 73 00:04:49,122 --> 00:04:53,126 In particular, he has focused on trying to find 74 00:04:53,209 --> 00:04:56,254 the tomb of John Franklin. 75 00:04:56,963 --> 00:05:01,009 He considers that to be the holy grail of the Franklin mystery, 76 00:05:01,092 --> 00:05:04,429 because Franklin would have been buried with his papers, 77 00:05:04,512 --> 00:05:07,181 the ship's papers, the ship's log. 78 00:05:07,265 --> 00:05:10,143 You know, a commander in the British Royal Navy, 79 00:05:10,226 --> 00:05:13,354 every day he's going to be keeping a diary. 80 00:05:13,438 --> 00:05:16,858 And those papers could potentially solve the mystery 81 00:05:16,941 --> 00:05:20,111 as to what happened to Franklin and his men. 82 00:05:23,239 --> 00:05:25,992 TOM: In 2014, I thought, well there's still 83 00:05:26,075 --> 00:05:28,119 one more chance of maybe finding it. 84 00:05:28,411 --> 00:05:31,581 And that is doing an aerial survey with the airplane. 85 00:05:32,582 --> 00:05:34,417 I was looking down at the ground, 86 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:39,547 I saw what looked like large rocks, very large rocks. 87 00:05:40,089 --> 00:05:43,926 And it was a perfect engineered, rectangle shaped structure. 88 00:05:45,219 --> 00:05:49,140 So I circled around to try and get a better look at it. 89 00:05:49,223 --> 00:05:51,017 And we never found it again. 90 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:52,894 It just sort of vanished. 91 00:05:52,977 --> 00:05:56,272 And we've been looking for it ever since. 92 00:05:57,565 --> 00:06:01,611 MARK: Tom has seen the tomb from the air. 93 00:06:01,694 --> 00:06:03,946 And he's been closing in on it ever since. 94 00:06:04,030 --> 00:06:06,032 He didn't get GPS coordinates at the time. 95 00:06:06,115 --> 00:06:09,285 And he's been eliminating territory. 96 00:06:10,536 --> 00:06:13,998 And now we're down to less than 30 square miles. 97 00:06:14,957 --> 00:06:19,087 So all that's left now, is to go to King William Island, 98 00:06:19,212 --> 00:06:23,383 to meet up with Tom and see if we can find the tomb. 99 00:06:29,514 --> 00:06:33,768 ♪ ♪ 100 00:06:33,851 --> 00:06:37,480 RENAN: Feels surprisingly chill today for like, pre-launch. 101 00:06:37,563 --> 00:06:42,318 MARK: The reason why it feels surprisingly chill is because 102 00:06:42,402 --> 00:06:45,321 I put a year of my life into making sure that today 103 00:06:45,405 --> 00:06:47,240 felt surprisingly chill. 104 00:06:47,323 --> 00:06:49,659 (laughs). 105 00:06:50,535 --> 00:06:56,541 My investigative process is to immerse myself in the story 106 00:06:56,624 --> 00:06:59,502 as much as I possibly can. 107 00:06:59,585 --> 00:07:02,922 And, in this case, to do that, 108 00:07:03,005 --> 00:07:07,176 I want to follow in the wake of Franklin's two ships, 109 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:09,178 the Erebus and the Terror. 110 00:07:09,262 --> 00:07:12,348 And so I want to sail there in my own boat. 111 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:15,977 I want to intersect with Franklin's route. 112 00:07:16,060 --> 00:07:19,397 I want to go to the same places that they went. 113 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:25,069 And I want to see it with my own eyes and I want to feel it. 114 00:07:28,406 --> 00:07:30,074 BEN: He called me and he's like, 115 00:07:30,158 --> 00:07:31,617 "Hey, man, what do you think about?", 116 00:07:31,701 --> 00:07:32,952 you know, he talks so slow. 117 00:07:33,035 --> 00:07:36,998 "What would you think about going up to the 118 00:07:37,081 --> 00:07:39,750 Northwest Passage on a boat?" 119 00:07:39,876 --> 00:07:41,210 (laughs). 120 00:07:41,294 --> 00:07:43,421 I was like, "Yeah man, if you're on the trip I'll go" 121 00:07:43,504 --> 00:07:46,841 because if anyone can get it done, it's Mark. 122 00:07:48,342 --> 00:07:54,599 ♪ ♪ 123 00:07:56,767 --> 00:08:00,605 RENAN: First sail, getting her up! 124 00:08:07,153 --> 00:08:12,825 ♪ ♪ 125 00:08:12,909 --> 00:08:14,410 BEN: One for Renan here. 126 00:08:14,494 --> 00:08:15,661 RENAN: Thank you, sir. 127 00:08:15,745 --> 00:08:18,789 BEN: Sorry about the tin plate but we're on an expedition. 128 00:08:19,957 --> 00:08:21,709 RENAN: I've been doing adventures with Mark for 129 00:08:21,792 --> 00:08:24,086 over 15 years now, and, 130 00:08:24,170 --> 00:08:26,672 I grew up sailing but if I'm too seasick, 131 00:08:26,756 --> 00:08:30,134 I'm probably just going to be curled up in fetal position 132 00:08:30,218 --> 00:08:34,138 and be relying on, on Rudy to get everything. 133 00:08:41,270 --> 00:08:44,482 MARK: There's no one out here, no other ships. 134 00:08:44,565 --> 00:08:46,609 It's all about this ship, it's all about the Polar Sun 135 00:08:46,692 --> 00:08:49,278 taking care of us. 136 00:08:49,362 --> 00:08:52,615 She's a good vessel. 137 00:08:53,616 --> 00:08:57,995 I care deeply about adventure and exploration and history. 138 00:08:58,496 --> 00:09:02,333 That's been kind of the compass bearing leading me 139 00:09:02,458 --> 00:09:05,711 through life since I was a little kid. 140 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:10,091 And I've turned that into my livelihood. 141 00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:13,928 I led an expedition on Mount Everest to search 142 00:09:14,011 --> 00:09:17,890 for the body of lost explorer, Sandy Irvine. 143 00:09:18,975 --> 00:09:22,603 I climbed these crazy cliffs in the Amazon to search for 144 00:09:22,687 --> 00:09:24,897 new species of animals. 145 00:09:24,981 --> 00:09:27,942 One, two, three! 146 00:09:29,193 --> 00:09:31,320 And if you're part of this world, 147 00:09:31,404 --> 00:09:34,907 you eventually have friends that go out on expeditions 148 00:09:34,991 --> 00:09:37,743 and they never come home. 149 00:09:37,827 --> 00:09:41,872 And when that happens, when people disappear, 150 00:09:42,039 --> 00:09:45,668 it's just our human nature to want to know what happened. 151 00:09:46,335 --> 00:09:50,131 And that's kind of what this project is all about for me, 152 00:09:50,339 --> 00:09:54,969 to potentially add like a final chapter to the story. 153 00:09:57,930 --> 00:10:02,977 Sir John Franklin was a seasoned Arctic explorer. 154 00:10:03,060 --> 00:10:07,857 At age 59, he bid farewell to his wife and daughter and 155 00:10:07,940 --> 00:10:10,735 set sail for the Arctic. 156 00:10:10,818 --> 00:10:14,405 In the Spring of 1845, 157 00:10:15,156 --> 00:10:20,286 Franklin's ships were last seen off the coast of Greenland. 158 00:10:21,996 --> 00:10:25,666 When the ships disappeared, a trail of clues was discovered 159 00:10:25,750 --> 00:10:28,836 on the remote King William Island, 160 00:10:28,919 --> 00:10:33,341 including a written record found in 1859. 161 00:10:34,550 --> 00:10:38,179 The Victory Point document states that Franklin's ships 162 00:10:38,262 --> 00:10:41,724 had become completely trapped in ice. 163 00:10:44,268 --> 00:10:47,688 The men has abandoned ship and set out on 164 00:10:47,772 --> 00:10:50,274 King William Island. 165 00:10:51,359 --> 00:10:54,487 A second entry made almost a year later, 166 00:10:54,570 --> 00:10:57,698 tells us that 24 crew had died, 167 00:10:57,782 --> 00:11:00,993 including Captain Franklin. 168 00:11:03,162 --> 00:11:05,498 Franklin's two ships were finally discovered off the 169 00:11:05,581 --> 00:11:11,128 coast of King William Island in 2014 and 2016. 170 00:11:12,046 --> 00:11:15,424 But the lost tomb of Franklin himself is still out there, 171 00:11:15,508 --> 00:11:18,636 waiting to be found. 172 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:23,766 Our first task is crossing the Labrador sea to link up with 173 00:11:23,849 --> 00:11:27,353 Franklin's route at a place called the Whale Fish Islands. 174 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,118 BEN: Woo hoo! 175 00:11:43,452 --> 00:11:45,705 MARK: So grim! 176 00:11:45,788 --> 00:11:50,292 Oh wow this is not... this is not inviting, 177 00:11:50,376 --> 00:11:54,380 this is not exactly paradise. 178 00:11:56,215 --> 00:12:02,805 (ship creaking) 179 00:12:07,351 --> 00:12:09,270 RENAN: What is up with that house? 180 00:12:09,353 --> 00:12:10,521 BEN: Oh, that's cool! 181 00:12:10,646 --> 00:12:13,149 Someone's hunting, hunting lodge. 182 00:12:13,232 --> 00:12:16,026 Oh there's several, you see? 183 00:12:20,239 --> 00:12:24,034 MARK: So cool, so cool. 184 00:12:24,118 --> 00:12:26,454 The Whale Fish Islands. 185 00:12:26,537 --> 00:12:30,916 It's taken us 2,200 miles of sailing from Maine just to get 186 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,587 to the beginning of this journey. 187 00:12:42,887 --> 00:12:45,306 This is where Franklin set off 188 00:12:45,389 --> 00:12:48,017 for the Northwest Passage 189 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:51,562 in 1845. 190 00:13:00,613 --> 00:13:02,198 This was a town. 191 00:13:02,281 --> 00:13:05,659 Some kind of a whaling station. 192 00:13:05,785 --> 00:13:08,913 Totally abandoned now. 193 00:13:12,750 --> 00:13:13,959 Look at this. 194 00:13:14,043 --> 00:13:16,378 This is what I've been looking for right here. 195 00:13:16,504 --> 00:13:18,464 An iron bollard in the shore, 196 00:13:18,547 --> 00:13:21,842 where Franklin tied up their ships. 197 00:13:22,259 --> 00:13:25,971 And this was the last anchorage for the Franklin expedition 198 00:13:26,055 --> 00:13:29,683 before they set off into the Northwest Passage. 199 00:13:31,101 --> 00:13:34,730 At that time, sailing over the top of the world wouldn't have 200 00:13:34,814 --> 00:13:38,651 been too different from the idea of going to the moon. 201 00:13:40,611 --> 00:13:43,989 You know, in terms of the history of exploration, 202 00:13:44,073 --> 00:13:46,033 there's nothing more epic. 203 00:13:46,116 --> 00:13:47,952 You know, almost like a Knights of the Round table 204 00:13:48,035 --> 00:13:51,413 kind of thing to try to make it through there. 205 00:13:53,582 --> 00:13:56,043 It's wild to realize that Franklin and his men were 206 00:13:56,126 --> 00:13:59,922 walking all around here and preparing for their voyage 207 00:14:00,005 --> 00:14:03,425 into the Northwest Passage. 208 00:14:06,595 --> 00:14:10,641 From here, the ice gauntlet begins. 209 00:14:18,148 --> 00:14:22,736 We just sailed into a fog bank. 210 00:14:23,445 --> 00:14:25,781 This is really really thick. 211 00:14:25,990 --> 00:14:29,076 So I can see about a boat length and the water is 212 00:14:29,159 --> 00:14:31,787 filled with chunks of ice. 213 00:14:32,162 --> 00:14:35,624 The radar shows the big stuff, it shows the bergs, 214 00:14:35,708 --> 00:14:38,377 but it doesn't show the small stuff. 215 00:14:38,460 --> 00:14:40,045 It doesn't show the growlers, 216 00:14:40,254 --> 00:14:43,674 and the growlers could tear the boat in half. 217 00:14:45,634 --> 00:14:49,346 Crossing the maze of ice bergs in Baffin Bay was the first 218 00:14:49,430 --> 00:14:52,892 real test Franklin and his men faced on their voyage 219 00:14:52,975 --> 00:14:55,895 into the unknown. 220 00:14:55,978 --> 00:14:58,814 This is part of the reason why I wanted to sail to 221 00:14:58,898 --> 00:15:02,443 King William Island, to be faced with some of the same 222 00:15:02,526 --> 00:15:08,490 decision points that Franklin was 175 years ago. 223 00:15:10,451 --> 00:15:14,747 It was the most modern, the most well-equipped expedition 224 00:15:14,830 --> 00:15:17,541 in the history of the world at that point. 225 00:15:17,625 --> 00:15:21,003 And they disappeared without a trace. 226 00:15:22,671 --> 00:15:26,967 The best way to describe kind of what it's like out there is 227 00:15:27,051 --> 00:15:30,095 I would call it a savage wilderness. 228 00:15:30,971 --> 00:15:32,181 Oh! 229 00:15:32,264 --> 00:15:33,515 BEN: There it goes! 230 00:15:33,599 --> 00:15:37,311 Oh man, look at it bouncing! 231 00:15:45,444 --> 00:15:48,864 ♪ ♪ 232 00:15:49,782 --> 00:15:52,534 MARK: We can see land! Woo hoo! 233 00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:54,703 I have to say, I really like the place where 234 00:15:54,787 --> 00:15:56,997 the land and sea meet. 235 00:15:57,081 --> 00:15:59,959 Especially when there's mountains involved. 236 00:16:04,171 --> 00:16:08,550 ♪ ♪ 237 00:16:08,634 --> 00:16:12,763 After crossing Baffin Bay in the fall of 1845, 238 00:16:12,846 --> 00:16:16,725 Franklin's ships anchored for the winter at a tiny island 239 00:16:16,809 --> 00:16:20,145 in the middle of nowhere called Beechey Island. 240 00:16:29,113 --> 00:16:31,156 When the expedition went missing, 241 00:16:31,365 --> 00:16:32,866 some of the first clues 242 00:16:32,950 --> 00:16:35,619 were discovered on Beechey Island 243 00:16:35,744 --> 00:16:39,999 as well as the bodies of three of Franklin's crew. 244 00:16:44,503 --> 00:16:45,879 The autopsy showed I think, 245 00:16:45,963 --> 00:16:48,340 that all three of them died from tuberculosis, 246 00:16:48,507 --> 00:16:52,261 maybe a combination of that and pneumonia. 247 00:16:52,344 --> 00:16:55,514 But no new answers were discovered about 248 00:16:55,597 --> 00:16:59,435 what happened to the rest of Franklin's men. 249 00:17:00,185 --> 00:17:02,104 If we find Franklin's tomb, 250 00:17:02,187 --> 00:17:07,651 not only do we find the remains of a legendary lost explorer 251 00:17:07,985 --> 00:17:11,864 but we probably also find his papers. 252 00:17:14,241 --> 00:17:16,618 TOM: There's going to be all sorts of information in there. 253 00:17:16,702 --> 00:17:18,328 There'll be photographs. 254 00:17:18,912 --> 00:17:21,331 We're going to maybe have letters that are written from 255 00:17:21,415 --> 00:17:24,460 the crew members to be sent back home. 256 00:17:24,543 --> 00:17:28,505 It provides their story to the world. 257 00:17:34,636 --> 00:17:37,890 MARK: Polar Sun is really in her element right now, 258 00:17:38,015 --> 00:17:42,394 moving fast, just absolutely perfect conditions. 259 00:17:46,023 --> 00:17:49,318 We were sailing full speed toward King William Island 260 00:17:49,401 --> 00:17:54,573 and then we got news about a brewing storm. 261 00:17:55,449 --> 00:17:57,159 (thunder) 262 00:17:57,242 --> 00:18:00,245 A southeast gale that was building and 263 00:18:00,329 --> 00:18:02,915 we're heading southeast. 264 00:18:11,215 --> 00:18:13,717 BEN: Well, what we're faced with is we can either go into 265 00:18:13,801 --> 00:18:16,512 a really good bailout option where we can hole up for a 266 00:18:16,595 --> 00:18:18,889 couple days while all the weather blows overhead, 267 00:18:18,972 --> 00:18:24,019 or we can carry on into some dicey ice, and then hope that 268 00:18:24,103 --> 00:18:27,272 we make it somewhere safe before the weather descends. 269 00:18:27,356 --> 00:18:29,358 The thing is, we have to make our decision within the next 270 00:18:29,441 --> 00:18:30,442 two or three hours 271 00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:32,820 whether we turn into Pasley Bay or carry on, 272 00:18:32,903 --> 00:18:36,073 because we're getting to we're getting to decision point. 273 00:18:40,536 --> 00:18:43,247 MARK: The ice is down here. 274 00:18:43,330 --> 00:18:47,584 People speculate that's what happened to Franklin. 275 00:18:48,168 --> 00:18:52,047 Franklin came right down to here, got to the decision point. 276 00:18:52,131 --> 00:18:55,759 Didn't think he could go this way, so we went here 277 00:18:55,926 --> 00:18:58,971 into Victoria Strait which, it doomed them. 278 00:18:59,096 --> 00:19:02,516 They got caught in the ice and they never got out. 279 00:19:04,184 --> 00:19:05,727 BEN: Do we go left? We go right? 280 00:19:05,811 --> 00:19:06,854 Do we wait? 281 00:19:06,979 --> 00:19:09,898 It's the tension of Arctic navigation that 282 00:19:09,982 --> 00:19:12,776 we have to deal with. 283 00:19:16,780 --> 00:19:19,449 20 feet ahead, so we should get ready. 284 00:19:19,616 --> 00:19:21,451 MARK: What do you got for depth? 285 00:19:21,535 --> 00:19:24,496 BEN: 25 feet. 286 00:19:26,123 --> 00:19:29,543 MARK: It made sense, to go into Pasley and to 287 00:19:29,668 --> 00:19:32,838 ride out the storm. 288 00:19:33,338 --> 00:19:35,299 We've done well, now it's just a waiting game to 289 00:19:35,382 --> 00:19:38,260 sit and wait and see what happens. 290 00:19:47,227 --> 00:19:54,151 ♪ ♪ 291 00:19:59,406 --> 00:20:02,534 The storm came in overnight. 292 00:20:02,618 --> 00:20:04,036 Ice had come in and had encircled the 293 00:20:04,161 --> 00:20:06,121 entrance to the bay. 294 00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:09,875 A giant crescent of ice, capping the whole thing off. 295 00:20:18,550 --> 00:20:25,057 ♪ ♪ 296 00:20:25,140 --> 00:20:27,684 We are officially trapped within 297 00:20:28,018 --> 00:20:30,729 an impenetrable wall of ice. 298 00:20:35,692 --> 00:20:37,778 BEN: We've found a little spot where there might be some 299 00:20:37,861 --> 00:20:40,572 shelter but we can't get much closer to shore because 300 00:20:40,656 --> 00:20:44,034 we only have 19 feet of water at this point. 301 00:20:46,787 --> 00:20:48,163 MARK: Watch out! 302 00:20:48,247 --> 00:20:51,208 Don't go into that little nook. 303 00:20:53,293 --> 00:20:55,629 RUDY: Alright Ben, we're good to go back. 304 00:20:55,796 --> 00:20:57,631 You got a piece drifting. 305 00:20:57,714 --> 00:21:00,175 RENAN: We just barely escaped that little narrow gap that 306 00:21:00,259 --> 00:21:02,719 was closing in on us. 307 00:21:02,844 --> 00:21:05,597 Really close call. 308 00:21:06,390 --> 00:21:09,476 MARK: Getting trapped in the ice was the thing that 309 00:21:09,559 --> 00:21:13,105 I had always been the most afraid of. 310 00:21:13,188 --> 00:21:15,857 I mean I've read all these stories about this happening 311 00:21:15,941 --> 00:21:20,904 to explorers and having their boats being crushed in the ice. 312 00:21:21,571 --> 00:21:25,617 It's really a bad situation to be in. 313 00:21:32,207 --> 00:21:34,042 I'm gonna rely on my gut 314 00:21:34,126 --> 00:21:36,003 a little bit more than I have been, 315 00:21:36,086 --> 00:21:38,922 and my gut is telling me that we need to conserve 316 00:21:39,006 --> 00:21:41,216 every type of fuel that we have. 317 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:43,969 BEN: Even if we're in this bay for two weeks, 318 00:21:44,052 --> 00:21:45,387 we're getting to Gjoa. 319 00:21:45,470 --> 00:21:46,596 There's no way we're not. 320 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,558 MARK: I mean, well, there is a way that we're not 321 00:21:49,641 --> 00:21:52,686 which is that that plug of ice there never leaves the bay. 322 00:21:52,769 --> 00:21:56,606 It could happen, and it's 35 degrees out there right now. 323 00:22:09,453 --> 00:22:14,499 Strangely enough we have now gotten ourselves stranded 324 00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:19,755 not far from where Franklin did and 175 years later 325 00:22:19,838 --> 00:22:24,843 and it's like still a pretty serious situation. 326 00:22:27,554 --> 00:22:31,641 We know from the Victory Point record that Franklin's ships, 327 00:22:31,725 --> 00:22:33,352 the Erebus and the Terror, 328 00:22:33,435 --> 00:22:37,481 became completely frozen into the ice. 329 00:22:38,190 --> 00:22:41,902 The note gave exact coordinates for where they were abandoned, 330 00:22:41,985 --> 00:22:47,074 but the ships continued drifting and then disappeared. 331 00:22:48,033 --> 00:22:50,744 In the years that followed, eyewitness testimony was 332 00:22:50,827 --> 00:22:54,456 gathered from local Inuit hunters about sightings 333 00:22:54,539 --> 00:22:58,293 of the abandoned ships and Franklin's men. 334 00:22:59,836 --> 00:23:02,631 I think the most interesting part of the story is that 335 00:23:02,714 --> 00:23:06,009 the Inuit knew all along where the ships were, 336 00:23:06,093 --> 00:23:09,763 and it wasn't until they finally listened to the Inuit 337 00:23:09,846 --> 00:23:13,642 that they found the ships, 175 years later. 338 00:23:15,685 --> 00:23:19,439 MAN (over film): Here we are, at the stern of the ship. 339 00:23:19,898 --> 00:23:21,983 MARK: Researchers discovered a trove of 340 00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:25,612 perfectly preserved artifacts 341 00:23:25,779 --> 00:23:28,949 but no human remains have been found. 342 00:23:29,324 --> 00:23:33,453 The Inuit sightings also match up perfectly with where 343 00:23:33,537 --> 00:23:38,583 Tom Gross believes he saw Franklin's tomb in 2015. 344 00:23:39,543 --> 00:23:43,171 TOM: I'm pretty positive that that's what we saw that day. 345 00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:47,426 And if it is what I saw, we are going to have records 346 00:23:47,509 --> 00:23:50,220 that are in pristine condition because they're going to be 347 00:23:50,303 --> 00:23:54,891 frozen along with a frozen-in-time John Franklin. 348 00:23:57,519 --> 00:24:00,605 MARK: We've been in Pasley Bay for eight days, 349 00:24:00,772 --> 00:24:07,362 it would be kind of enjoyable if it wasn't just high stress 350 00:24:07,446 --> 00:24:10,782 all day every day. 351 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,036 Okay starboard! 352 00:24:15,162 --> 00:24:18,165 You're going over a big chunk! 353 00:24:18,957 --> 00:24:21,042 Okay get me an ice screw. 354 00:24:21,126 --> 00:24:23,753 Ooh boy, they're not gonna go in that well. 355 00:24:24,754 --> 00:24:28,383 We started anchoring to the floating chunks of ice 356 00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:33,054 to try to avoid getting the anchor trapped under the ice. 357 00:24:34,681 --> 00:24:36,975 RENAN: I don't know why it feels like the end of the 358 00:24:37,058 --> 00:24:39,978 expedition, but it's only the middle. 359 00:24:40,061 --> 00:24:43,190 It's because we were supposed to be 1,000 miles 360 00:24:43,273 --> 00:24:46,026 from here right now. 361 00:24:46,401 --> 00:24:48,653 Let's keep fighting the good fight. 362 00:24:48,737 --> 00:24:50,238 BEN: Back up, right into it. 363 00:24:50,363 --> 00:24:51,615 MARK: Okay take this back real quick. 364 00:24:51,698 --> 00:24:52,699 Go back. 365 00:24:52,866 --> 00:24:54,326 Just go, yep, go hard back. 366 00:24:54,409 --> 00:24:57,871 Get a line ready, toss me a line and get me an ice screw! 367 00:24:58,622 --> 00:25:02,167 It's extremely demoralizing when I see that this is the 368 00:25:02,250 --> 00:25:06,630 only place in this entire area, in this whole Gulf of Boothia 369 00:25:06,713 --> 00:25:08,965 where there's ice right now, 370 00:25:09,049 --> 00:25:14,179 and so I'm feeling like we made some bad decisions. 371 00:25:23,688 --> 00:25:29,903 ♪ ♪ 372 00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:37,827 RENAN: After being stuck here for eight days, 373 00:25:37,911 --> 00:25:40,080 the ice is slowly starting to break apart. 374 00:25:40,163 --> 00:25:41,748 The pieces are crumbling, 375 00:25:41,915 --> 00:25:45,544 and there's a chance we might break free. 376 00:25:49,548 --> 00:25:50,966 MARK: It was like, "Start the engine. 377 00:25:51,049 --> 00:25:54,636 We're going to do this. Let's see what happens." 378 00:25:57,222 --> 00:26:00,517 RUDY: Go 20-30 feet and then you're gonna turn to starboard. 379 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:01,601 BEN: Got it! 380 00:26:02,018 --> 00:26:04,813 RUDY: Good on that course, keep that heading. 381 00:26:05,313 --> 00:26:08,024 BEN: We have 16 feet under the keel right now! 382 00:26:08,233 --> 00:26:10,235 (scraping) 383 00:26:10,318 --> 00:26:13,071 MARK: Ooh, that was a (bleep) hard one. 384 00:26:13,154 --> 00:26:16,074 RUDY: More! More to port, more! 385 00:26:16,616 --> 00:26:19,494 MARK: Yep, slower Ben. 386 00:26:19,619 --> 00:26:21,246 BEN: I see clear water man! 387 00:26:21,329 --> 00:26:25,625 It's like no ice in the water just a quarter mile ahead. 388 00:26:25,709 --> 00:26:28,962 We just have to get through this last little crux. 389 00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:31,923 RENAN: Just go straight. 390 00:26:32,007 --> 00:26:35,010 There's this concentrated chunk around the point, 391 00:26:35,093 --> 00:26:38,597 and then, seems like we might be home free. 392 00:26:38,805 --> 00:26:40,849 BEN: Renan's at the masthead parting the ice like Moses 393 00:26:40,932 --> 00:26:43,351 so we can get through! 394 00:26:44,269 --> 00:26:46,646 RENAN: Nice. 395 00:26:53,945 --> 00:26:57,198 MARK: Holy (bleep). 396 00:26:59,367 --> 00:27:00,869 Oh, my God. 397 00:27:01,828 --> 00:27:04,831 Oh, my God. I cannot (bleep) believe it. 398 00:27:04,914 --> 00:27:07,917 We're in open water, boys. 399 00:27:14,382 --> 00:27:19,471 Full sail, sun, Gjoa Haven here we come! 400 00:27:31,775 --> 00:27:34,694 Polar Sun is pulling in. 401 00:27:35,070 --> 00:27:36,988 This is incredible. 402 00:27:37,113 --> 00:27:40,075 I can't believe we're finally here. 403 00:27:40,950 --> 00:27:45,497 Today is day 87, we've sailed 3600 nautical miles. 404 00:27:46,206 --> 00:27:48,667 We've seen ice, we've seen fog, 405 00:27:48,958 --> 00:27:52,837 we've seen graves of people who didn't make it out of here. 406 00:27:52,921 --> 00:27:54,964 We've been through a lot. 407 00:27:55,048 --> 00:27:56,633 Woo! 408 00:27:56,716 --> 00:27:58,968 Holy (bleep). 409 00:27:59,135 --> 00:28:01,471 This is a very strange feeling. 410 00:28:01,554 --> 00:28:04,474 Civilization. 411 00:28:09,312 --> 00:28:12,148 Wow, we've got the Northwest Passage right there 412 00:28:12,232 --> 00:28:14,734 and then a cell tower right there. 413 00:28:14,818 --> 00:28:16,653 (laughs). 414 00:28:17,112 --> 00:28:19,739 When we finally arrived, Tom Gross was right there 415 00:28:19,823 --> 00:28:22,409 waiting for us, ready to go. 416 00:28:22,492 --> 00:28:23,785 (laughs). 417 00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:25,578 RENAN: It's been a long, long journey. 418 00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:27,539 TOM: I thought we were gonna have to leave without ya! 419 00:28:27,622 --> 00:28:28,915 (laughs). 420 00:28:28,998 --> 00:28:30,792 MARK: Wow, can't believe I'm finally here. 421 00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:33,128 TOM: Yeah, this bedroom here, it kind of converted into 422 00:28:33,211 --> 00:28:35,255 my Franklin research room. 423 00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:37,590 MARK: This is the command center. 424 00:28:37,674 --> 00:28:39,676 TOM: There's something with this mystery I mean, 425 00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:43,221 every time I am ready to give up on it, which has been a 426 00:28:43,304 --> 00:28:46,683 few times in 28 years, something happens. 427 00:28:46,808 --> 00:28:49,561 Something happens that sucks me right back in where 428 00:28:49,644 --> 00:28:53,231 I've got to go back out and look for it. 429 00:28:53,356 --> 00:28:56,234 This picture is 1994, March. 430 00:28:56,317 --> 00:28:59,195 This is a friend of mine who passed away Louie Kamookak, 431 00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:02,031 and when I first was introduced to him, they said, 432 00:29:02,115 --> 00:29:04,159 "This is Louie Kamookak and uh, 433 00:29:04,242 --> 00:29:06,119 Louie's got the same interests that you have, Tom," 434 00:29:06,411 --> 00:29:08,246 and so we hit it off right away. 435 00:29:08,329 --> 00:29:10,331 We started talking about different theories, 436 00:29:10,415 --> 00:29:11,499 different ideas. 437 00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:14,627 He told me about things that were found around the island. 438 00:29:14,919 --> 00:29:16,755 Louie's dream was always to find that place, 439 00:29:17,005 --> 00:29:19,799 the Franklin site. 440 00:29:21,259 --> 00:29:24,137 And it looks a lot like what I've drawn here for you. 441 00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:26,765 MARK: You saw this from the air? 442 00:29:26,931 --> 00:29:29,392 TOM: And then we saw it. Yes, exactly. Yeah. 443 00:29:29,601 --> 00:29:31,394 MARK: But you didn't get the GPS coordinates? 444 00:29:31,478 --> 00:29:32,729 TOM: No, we didn't get the GPS. 445 00:29:32,854 --> 00:29:34,397 MARK: That's why we're down to 30 square miles. 446 00:29:34,481 --> 00:29:35,565 TOM: That's right. 447 00:29:35,648 --> 00:29:36,983 MARK: That we're going to cover? 448 00:29:37,066 --> 00:29:38,777 TOM: Yeah. 449 00:29:38,943 --> 00:29:40,904 If we can find the stone structure that we saw 450 00:29:40,987 --> 00:29:46,075 from the air, I'm sure we're going to have the burial tomb 451 00:29:46,159 --> 00:29:48,119 of Sir John Franklin. 452 00:29:48,411 --> 00:29:51,539 MARK: I'm honored that I have the opportunity to go there 453 00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:52,707 and do this with you. 454 00:29:52,832 --> 00:29:54,751 I can't even believe this is happening. 455 00:29:54,834 --> 00:29:58,463 Like, just the chance to possibly find something that 456 00:29:58,546 --> 00:30:00,465 could solve this mystery is, 457 00:30:00,548 --> 00:30:03,551 that's a once in a lifetime opportunity. 458 00:30:03,676 --> 00:30:06,221 We're going to pack up and we're going to head out in the 459 00:30:06,304 --> 00:30:09,349 morning first thing on the four-wheelers to try to 460 00:30:09,432 --> 00:30:12,310 find Franklin's tomb. 461 00:30:16,815 --> 00:30:18,942 TOM: You know, I've been doing this for such a long time. 462 00:30:19,108 --> 00:30:21,361 I have a really good feeling we're going to find it. 463 00:30:21,486 --> 00:30:24,781 And I've never had this feeling the way 464 00:30:24,864 --> 00:30:27,242 I've got it on this trip. 465 00:30:27,325 --> 00:30:30,620 There's only one hill where it can be, and I am almost 466 00:30:30,703 --> 00:30:34,123 positive that it's there. 467 00:30:36,751 --> 00:30:39,087 You know, it's always the last minute stuff. 468 00:30:39,170 --> 00:30:41,297 You don't want to be forgetting anything now. 469 00:30:41,381 --> 00:30:43,633 Because once we're out there, if we don't have it, 470 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,927 we don't have it. 471 00:30:48,805 --> 00:30:52,141 MARK: It's a rugged, 80 mile journey from the port in 472 00:30:52,225 --> 00:30:55,353 Gjoa Haven to our search zone. 473 00:30:56,646 --> 00:30:59,023 Tom had all the bikes lined up outside the house where 474 00:30:59,107 --> 00:31:03,027 we were staying, and I realized, "Wow, you know what? 475 00:31:03,111 --> 00:31:04,612 I don't think I've actually ridden 476 00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:06,865 one of these things before". 477 00:31:06,948 --> 00:31:08,449 TOM: Just follow where we're going. 478 00:31:08,575 --> 00:31:10,827 Cause we're going to be going through and finding a good path, 479 00:31:10,910 --> 00:31:13,121 and then where we go through, you follow us. 480 00:31:13,246 --> 00:31:14,289 MARK: Okay. 481 00:31:14,372 --> 00:31:16,499 TOM: And you're gonna want to be cautious all the time. 482 00:31:16,624 --> 00:31:17,834 MARK: Jacob, stay close to me please. 483 00:31:18,001 --> 00:31:19,002 JACOB: Yes. 484 00:31:19,627 --> 00:31:21,379 (laughs). 485 00:31:29,679 --> 00:31:31,347 ♪ ♪ 486 00:31:31,431 --> 00:31:34,767 MARK: The overland expedition is going to be our chance to 487 00:31:34,851 --> 00:31:38,396 solve this mystery once and for all. 488 00:31:40,899 --> 00:31:42,442 TOM: Traveling up to the search area is 489 00:31:42,525 --> 00:31:44,903 really incredibly difficult. 490 00:31:44,986 --> 00:31:47,488 It's long, it's rough. 491 00:31:47,572 --> 00:31:50,783 There's a lot of bog you have to cross. 492 00:31:54,203 --> 00:31:56,247 RENAN: This is normal? TOM: Yeah. 493 00:31:56,331 --> 00:31:58,708 (laughs). 494 00:31:59,792 --> 00:32:03,796 It's fairly risky going out there. 495 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,049 There's probably nobody better than Jacob 496 00:32:06,132 --> 00:32:08,593 that knows this island. 497 00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:13,890 JACOB: My role on the expedition is to make sure 498 00:32:14,015 --> 00:32:17,852 that we all come back home safely at the end of the trip. 499 00:32:18,686 --> 00:32:21,522 MARK: I think I should go back. 500 00:32:26,152 --> 00:32:28,947 Not Jacob's first rodeo. 501 00:32:33,701 --> 00:32:37,288 ♪ ♪ 502 00:32:37,372 --> 00:32:39,457 What in the (bleep)? 503 00:32:39,540 --> 00:32:42,293 You've gotta be... 504 00:32:42,377 --> 00:32:45,546 come on! 505 00:32:49,759 --> 00:32:53,346 Not off the most auspicious start here. 506 00:32:58,685 --> 00:33:04,983 ♪ ♪ 507 00:33:08,111 --> 00:33:09,737 TOM: The tundra has something 508 00:33:09,821 --> 00:33:11,906 that nowhere else in the world has. 509 00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:14,283 It's hard to really describe. 510 00:33:14,367 --> 00:33:17,954 You can see for miles and miles all around you. 511 00:33:18,121 --> 00:33:20,707 MARK: There's no one out here taking care of you 512 00:33:20,790 --> 00:33:22,917 other than yourself. 513 00:33:23,292 --> 00:33:26,963 It hits home in a sort of a sobering way, what it must 514 00:33:27,296 --> 00:33:31,300 have been like for Franklin and his men to be out here, 515 00:33:31,384 --> 00:33:34,345 because you're in the middle of nowhere. 516 00:33:36,139 --> 00:33:39,392 Over the years, human remains from the Franklin expedition 517 00:33:39,475 --> 00:33:43,062 have been discovered across King William Island. 518 00:33:44,105 --> 00:33:48,776 In 1854, an Inuit hunter reported finding the bones of 519 00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:53,990 30 men piled together, some with signs of cannibalism. 520 00:33:57,035 --> 00:34:00,038 JIMMY: I really believe that, you know, if Franklin and 521 00:34:00,121 --> 00:34:04,876 his men had help from the Inuit people around this area, 522 00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:08,755 with their traditional clothing, and with the hunting, 523 00:34:08,838 --> 00:34:11,924 and the skills that they had, 524 00:34:12,008 --> 00:34:15,595 I think they would've made it through the Northwest Passage. 525 00:34:16,054 --> 00:34:19,807 I always thought that Franklin himself didn't want any 526 00:34:19,891 --> 00:34:24,729 assistance, cause I really believe that he wanted to do it 527 00:34:24,812 --> 00:34:29,067 on his own without the help of the Inuit people. 528 00:34:29,692 --> 00:34:33,780 Their nomadic life would have shown them that yes, 529 00:34:33,863 --> 00:34:38,826 these areas are safe to travel by. 530 00:34:48,169 --> 00:34:49,545 TOM: This is it. MARK: Wow. 531 00:34:49,629 --> 00:34:51,089 TOM: Boot camp. 532 00:34:51,172 --> 00:34:55,635 This is Collinson River, and Collinson Inlet. 533 00:34:55,718 --> 00:34:57,845 MARK: Wow. TOM: We made it. 534 00:34:57,929 --> 00:35:00,890 MARK: Really cool. 535 00:35:01,682 --> 00:35:05,478 Tom targeted Collinson Inlet based on Inuit testimony 536 00:35:05,561 --> 00:35:09,398 about a Franklin campsite in this area. 537 00:35:09,857 --> 00:35:12,485 TOM: The first winter when they arrived, 538 00:35:12,568 --> 00:35:14,737 I think that they ended up down in here. 539 00:35:15,154 --> 00:35:18,908 So hopefully, what we can do is prove that they did and 540 00:35:18,991 --> 00:35:21,494 that we'll find a camp out here somewhere, 541 00:35:21,577 --> 00:35:25,331 and if that's correct, we should be able to find the tomb of 542 00:35:25,414 --> 00:35:28,501 Sir John Franklin in this area as well. 543 00:35:28,584 --> 00:35:30,753 MARK: Wow. 544 00:35:38,845 --> 00:35:40,429 (speaking native language) 545 00:35:40,513 --> 00:35:43,558 JACOB: Let the day have good weather. 546 00:35:48,229 --> 00:35:50,314 RENAN: We're about to launch the fixed wing drone. 547 00:35:50,398 --> 00:35:55,027 This has been a long term dream to get this thing in the air. 548 00:35:55,486 --> 00:35:59,157 They use these drones to, to map the tundra, 549 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:02,201 to look at changes in the climate, but we're using it 550 00:36:02,493 --> 00:36:06,122 to map a high resolution area to try to find the tomb. 551 00:36:06,205 --> 00:36:07,874 RUDY: Look at that, shows the airplane on the map. 552 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,167 We've got greens. 553 00:36:09,292 --> 00:36:11,127 RENAN: Yeah! 554 00:36:11,294 --> 00:36:12,461 (laughs). 555 00:36:12,545 --> 00:36:13,588 TOM: This area right here. 556 00:36:13,671 --> 00:36:15,047 This is what I want to see. 557 00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:16,340 MARK: Right around there, right? 558 00:36:16,507 --> 00:36:18,801 TOM: Yeah. 559 00:36:19,886 --> 00:36:22,346 MARK: So let's get the drone up in the air and let's get 560 00:36:22,430 --> 00:36:27,143 you pretending that the drone is in you in the plane, 561 00:36:27,226 --> 00:36:29,395 seven years ago. 562 00:36:29,478 --> 00:36:33,399 We could recreate like how it was for you that day, 563 00:36:33,482 --> 00:36:35,276 back in 2015. 564 00:36:35,359 --> 00:36:37,653 TOM: Perfect. Let's try it. 565 00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:41,449 MARK: We're going to very carefully document this ridge, 566 00:36:41,532 --> 00:36:44,285 because this really is like trying to find a 567 00:36:44,368 --> 00:36:46,746 needle in a haystack. 568 00:36:46,829 --> 00:36:48,873 If Rudy wasn't here, do you think you could 569 00:36:48,956 --> 00:36:50,541 get this all set up? 570 00:36:50,625 --> 00:36:51,792 TOM: No. 571 00:36:51,876 --> 00:36:53,461 (laughs). 572 00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:56,005 I couldn't even open up the computer. 573 00:37:06,515 --> 00:37:08,684 MARK: You basically just create sort of a grid over 574 00:37:08,768 --> 00:37:11,771 what you want to search, and then the plane just shoots 575 00:37:11,854 --> 00:37:15,608 sequential photographs that are designed so that 576 00:37:15,691 --> 00:37:19,153 they all interlink. 577 00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:21,447 RENAN: So we're at 600 feet now. 578 00:37:21,530 --> 00:37:23,950 You just direct me where to go. 579 00:37:24,367 --> 00:37:26,369 TOM: This hill. Can you go right to there? 580 00:37:26,535 --> 00:37:28,037 RENAN: Yeah. Want me to go down into it? 581 00:37:28,329 --> 00:37:30,289 TOM: Yep. Go right down into. 582 00:37:30,373 --> 00:37:33,125 RENAN: I'm going down in. 583 00:37:38,756 --> 00:37:40,675 TOM: You see that island right there? 584 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:41,884 There's an island. 585 00:37:41,968 --> 00:37:43,928 RENAN: Way out there? TOM: Way out there. 586 00:37:44,053 --> 00:37:47,098 So I saw that, I was looking right at that. 587 00:37:50,768 --> 00:37:53,145 MARK: You bring the plane back, you download the imagery, 588 00:37:53,229 --> 00:37:56,357 and then the software stitches them all together 589 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,485 in one of these gigapan giant photos. 590 00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:03,322 RUDY: Ooh. File is done. 591 00:38:03,656 --> 00:38:05,533 Look, the quality of the stitch is incredible. 592 00:38:05,616 --> 00:38:06,951 I mean, you can zoom in. 593 00:38:07,243 --> 00:38:08,828 RENAN: This is the zone. 594 00:38:08,911 --> 00:38:11,664 RUDY: Each white block represents a separate photo 595 00:38:11,747 --> 00:38:13,040 of what we covered. 596 00:38:13,124 --> 00:38:14,500 MARK: That's amazing. 597 00:38:14,583 --> 00:38:17,753 RUDY: About 1300 photos went into that. 598 00:38:19,213 --> 00:38:21,465 TOM: You see that? This is the area. 599 00:38:21,549 --> 00:38:23,050 There's no question in my mind. 600 00:38:23,175 --> 00:38:26,262 This is the area. 601 00:38:27,054 --> 00:38:31,267 MARK: Tom's adamant about what he saw in 2015. 602 00:38:32,184 --> 00:38:36,188 He has seen the tomb from the air. 603 00:38:37,648 --> 00:38:39,900 Finding it again is all about, 604 00:38:39,984 --> 00:38:43,571 "Where did Franklin land when they left the ships? 605 00:38:43,654 --> 00:38:46,532 Where was that camp?" 606 00:38:47,616 --> 00:38:51,454 You find that camp, you find Franklin's tomb. 607 00:39:00,713 --> 00:39:05,551 ♪ ♪ 608 00:39:05,634 --> 00:39:09,305 We just hauled across that flood plain. 609 00:39:10,222 --> 00:39:14,101 Heading to the area that Tom identified. 610 00:39:17,521 --> 00:39:18,898 I parked the bike. 611 00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:20,107 I got off. 612 00:39:20,274 --> 00:39:23,944 There were these interesting looking rocks 613 00:39:24,070 --> 00:39:27,156 arranged in an unnatural way. 614 00:39:28,657 --> 00:39:31,327 Look at the size of these rocks. 615 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:41,670 What the hell. Come on. 616 00:39:42,338 --> 00:39:44,632 Holy (bleep). 617 00:39:45,174 --> 00:39:46,550 What the hell is that? 618 00:39:46,634 --> 00:39:49,428 Hey Tom! 619 00:39:51,389 --> 00:39:54,392 This is a camp. 620 00:39:54,475 --> 00:39:57,144 That's incredible. 621 00:39:57,228 --> 00:40:00,272 TOM: That's a tent peg. MARK: Come on. 622 00:40:00,356 --> 00:40:02,650 You've got to be kidding me. 623 00:40:02,942 --> 00:40:05,069 TOM: Tent peg. 624 00:40:05,236 --> 00:40:07,238 MARK: Is that something they would have had on the ships... 625 00:40:07,363 --> 00:40:08,447 TOM: Yeah. 626 00:40:08,572 --> 00:40:10,032 MARK: Or something they would have made? 627 00:40:10,157 --> 00:40:12,868 TOM: Well they would have made them probably. 628 00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:17,832 It was really, really exciting in a sense that I was looking 629 00:40:17,998 --> 00:40:21,085 for a camp and what did we find, but a tent peg. 630 00:40:21,168 --> 00:40:24,130 You know, I think we found it within the first 40 minutes of, 631 00:40:24,213 --> 00:40:26,298 of going out, which was incredible. 632 00:40:26,382 --> 00:40:29,343 You know, like that just doesn't happen. 633 00:40:30,761 --> 00:40:34,265 MARK: I think we should look around here a little bit more. 634 00:40:36,058 --> 00:40:40,438 And this? Come on! 635 00:40:40,521 --> 00:40:44,400 TOM: Oh wow, eh? Look at that. 636 00:40:44,817 --> 00:40:46,902 Look at this. 637 00:40:46,986 --> 00:40:49,363 RENAN: That's not Inuit is it, Jacob? 638 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:51,657 JACOB: This one? Not it's not. 639 00:40:51,740 --> 00:40:56,620 There were some items there that our ancestors cannot make, 640 00:40:57,037 --> 00:41:00,875 such as the brass rod and the tent peg. 641 00:41:01,041 --> 00:41:04,837 It could have been a camp at one time from the expedition. 642 00:41:06,797 --> 00:41:09,341 MARK: We have Inuit testimony saying that there's a 643 00:41:09,425 --> 00:41:12,303 stone house and a camp in this area. 644 00:41:12,428 --> 00:41:16,515 Now, we have found artifacts that support the idea that 645 00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:18,726 these stories are true. 646 00:41:18,893 --> 00:41:23,272 And we have Tom seeing a stone house that perfectly fits the 647 00:41:23,355 --> 00:41:25,858 description in 2015. 648 00:41:25,983 --> 00:41:29,111 So we felt like we were close. 649 00:41:29,195 --> 00:41:33,282 I mean, it was just like right there, we're going to find it. 650 00:41:34,033 --> 00:41:37,203 Okay, so, the weather's perfect. 651 00:41:37,286 --> 00:41:38,537 We're getting close. 652 00:41:38,621 --> 00:41:39,997 Let's keep going. 653 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,416 TOM: Let's keep going. 654 00:41:44,001 --> 00:41:47,713 That's a nice hill. Yeah, straight there. 655 00:41:47,796 --> 00:41:49,590 I don't know how far away it is but that looks 656 00:41:49,673 --> 00:41:52,009 really, really good. 657 00:41:53,052 --> 00:41:55,387 MARK: This is our window to find the tomb, 658 00:41:55,471 --> 00:41:57,806 before the weather turns. 659 00:41:57,890 --> 00:42:01,143 The idea is to search ridge lines that match the one 660 00:42:01,227 --> 00:42:04,855 Tom saw from the plane back in 2015. 661 00:42:06,190 --> 00:42:09,401 I mean imagine finding Franklin's diary. 662 00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:12,821 We might be able to change history. 663 00:42:13,155 --> 00:42:15,699 TOM: Oh I think we're close, this is the area. 664 00:42:15,783 --> 00:42:19,495 I think that hill over there, you know, it's just, 665 00:42:19,578 --> 00:42:22,665 it's just the lighting, throws things off. 666 00:42:24,917 --> 00:42:27,127 There's one more hill up here that I've marked, 667 00:42:27,378 --> 00:42:30,422 and we should go to that one. 668 00:42:35,803 --> 00:42:39,807 For me, like until I find that stone thing that I saw, 669 00:42:39,890 --> 00:42:42,101 I'm not going to be able to rest. 670 00:42:42,184 --> 00:42:44,562 You know I need to see that, I need to see what it was and 671 00:42:44,728 --> 00:42:47,273 put that to rest. 672 00:42:48,190 --> 00:42:49,233 MARK: Keep going down. 673 00:42:49,316 --> 00:42:50,401 TOM: Yeah, I know, yeah. 674 00:42:50,484 --> 00:42:54,113 MARK: There's all these big, black, pointy rocks on that one. 675 00:43:02,746 --> 00:43:07,751 I guess today is day five or six. 676 00:43:08,752 --> 00:43:12,881 We've covered I think about 400 miles so far. 677 00:43:14,466 --> 00:43:18,345 But we haven't found any new signs of Franklin's men. 678 00:43:26,312 --> 00:43:28,522 Did it not have little lakes on the side Tom? 679 00:43:28,606 --> 00:43:30,274 TOM: No, there's no lakes on it. 680 00:43:30,608 --> 00:43:32,192 MARK: It would be on this side, right Tom? 681 00:43:32,443 --> 00:43:34,570 TOM: Yeah. 682 00:43:35,738 --> 00:43:37,906 RENAN: Yeah, cut out. 683 00:43:37,990 --> 00:43:41,118 It's like transmission lost. 684 00:43:42,661 --> 00:43:44,705 It cut out again! 685 00:43:45,706 --> 00:43:46,749 TOM: How are you feeling Jacob? 686 00:43:47,166 --> 00:43:49,293 Are you feeling good about finding it still? 687 00:43:49,376 --> 00:43:52,713 JACOB: I never lose hope until we start heading home. 688 00:43:53,589 --> 00:43:58,552 ♪ ♪ 689 00:44:07,311 --> 00:44:10,356 ♪ ♪ 690 00:44:10,439 --> 00:44:13,192 MARK: What the heck? 691 00:44:14,276 --> 00:44:18,238 The drain plug on the oil pan had just fallen off. 692 00:44:19,406 --> 00:44:21,408 RENAN: Do you want me to take this bag off too? 693 00:44:21,492 --> 00:44:23,577 Jacob to the rescue. 694 00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:27,623 Took Jacob 20 minutes to find a piece of driftwood. 695 00:44:27,706 --> 00:44:30,834 And it's, it's holding all the oil on the bike right now, 696 00:44:30,918 --> 00:44:33,921 but I don't know how many miles we have. 697 00:44:35,297 --> 00:44:41,261 (engine rumbling). 698 00:44:43,806 --> 00:44:46,558 MARK: We spent eight days driving up and down 699 00:44:46,642 --> 00:44:48,477 these gravel eskers. 700 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:53,691 I mean, just going around in circles and up and down. 701 00:44:54,566 --> 00:44:59,363 And we went from this really high running optimism, 702 00:44:59,446 --> 00:45:03,409 like we are close, like, we are right on the trail. 703 00:45:03,826 --> 00:45:06,328 And then it was just... 704 00:45:09,248 --> 00:45:11,583 Day after day of frustration, 705 00:45:11,667 --> 00:45:15,087 of driving through this incredibly rugged terrain 706 00:45:15,170 --> 00:45:17,798 that was destroying the bikes. 707 00:45:17,881 --> 00:45:21,468 And we were spending half of every day fixing the bikes. 708 00:45:23,053 --> 00:45:29,643 ♪ ♪ 709 00:45:37,025 --> 00:45:41,447 We got to a certain point where, you know, a week into searching, 710 00:45:41,780 --> 00:45:44,450 there was nowhere else to look. 711 00:45:49,455 --> 00:45:54,668 ♪ ♪ 712 00:45:56,336 --> 00:45:59,965 We were in Erebus Bay which is the spot where 713 00:46:00,048 --> 00:46:04,386 23 of Franklin crew died. 714 00:46:05,220 --> 00:46:08,015 There were signs of cannibalism and bones 715 00:46:08,098 --> 00:46:09,975 that had these cut marks. 716 00:46:10,058 --> 00:46:12,478 And that's the spot where we know things got 717 00:46:12,561 --> 00:46:15,481 really desperate. 718 00:46:16,732 --> 00:46:19,860 There may be some Inuit who know where Franklin is buried, 719 00:46:20,068 --> 00:46:21,862 but they don't want to mess with it because there's a 720 00:46:22,070 --> 00:46:24,406 very strong taboo in their culture against 721 00:46:24,490 --> 00:46:27,701 messing around with the dead. 722 00:46:28,702 --> 00:46:32,289 JIMMY: We, as Inuit people, still believe that 723 00:46:32,372 --> 00:46:36,210 there are spirits that are out there. 724 00:46:37,795 --> 00:46:41,715 They're lost, and still trying to find their way home. 725 00:46:43,300 --> 00:46:46,887 But for me, we should study these things 726 00:46:46,970 --> 00:46:49,973 to understand what happened. 727 00:46:50,057 --> 00:46:53,894 And we can pass this story on to our next generation. 728 00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,866 MARK: We did the best that we could to document 729 00:47:08,033 --> 00:47:10,160 some of the main search areas. 730 00:47:10,244 --> 00:47:12,913 I mean, we have that data now. 731 00:47:13,038 --> 00:47:17,209 We've been looking at it. We can continue to look at it. 732 00:47:17,918 --> 00:47:20,212 I could see that being the future of 733 00:47:20,295 --> 00:47:23,966 finding Franklin's tomb. 734 00:47:25,175 --> 00:47:28,345 TOM: I know what I saw in 2015. 735 00:47:28,428 --> 00:47:31,473 I think that we're very, very close to finding it. 736 00:47:31,557 --> 00:47:34,434 I think that it's going to be found probably within the 737 00:47:34,518 --> 00:47:36,311 next year or two. 738 00:47:36,395 --> 00:47:37,771 And not just not just Franklin, 739 00:47:37,855 --> 00:47:39,982 who will basically be frozen in time, 740 00:47:40,065 --> 00:47:42,693 but maybe a couple other officers with him. 741 00:47:42,776 --> 00:47:46,238 And also it's going to be where the records 742 00:47:46,321 --> 00:47:47,865 are buried as well. 743 00:47:47,948 --> 00:47:50,742 So I think it's all together, it's once we find one thing, 744 00:47:50,826 --> 00:47:53,704 we're going to have it all and it's just, 745 00:47:53,787 --> 00:47:56,707 just a matter of time and it'll be there. 746 00:47:59,459 --> 00:48:06,091 ♪ ♪ 747 00:48:09,136 --> 00:48:11,555 MARK: I know that the mystery of the Franklin expedition is 748 00:48:11,638 --> 00:48:15,517 gonna continue to suck people into it's vortex. 749 00:48:22,733 --> 00:48:26,194 His grave is somewhere out there right now. 750 00:48:26,278 --> 00:48:28,405 Somebody's gonna find it someday. 751 00:48:28,614 --> 00:48:32,784 And solve the Franklin mystery once and for all.