Canada, U.K. discuss preserving shipwreck

Canadian officials say they have entered talks with the British government on how best to preserve the wreck of HMS Investigator, a 19th-century British naval ship that was found in Arctic waters this summer.

Archeologists with Parks Canada discovered the shipwreck on July 25 in Banks Island's Mercy Bay in the Northwest Territories. The ship had been abandoned in 1854, during an attempt to search for Sir John Franklin's missing expedition.

The process of preserving HMS Investigator is still in the very early stages, said lead researcher Ryan Harris of Parks Canada....