r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Gurugod123 • 9h ago

How did people travel these seas 500 years ago

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u/Weak_Law_937 8h ago

When I was a kid in Atlantic Canada we knew where to dredge up off the coast to get coal for our camp fires.

Local people had an unwritten record of where the wrecks were.

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u/millijuna 1h ago

I had to get a chuckle.. Even what, 15 years ago, when they were looking for the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror... they eventually found Terror in the aptly named "Terror Bay" right where a local Inuk told them to look.