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Divers recover 275 artifacts, including ‘remarkable’ book, from Arctic shipwreck

Hundreds of artifacts, including serving dishes and a leather book, were recovered from a shipwreck settled on a shallow seabed off the coast of northern Canada.

Earlier this year, archaeologists set up camp on the ice above the wreck of HMS Erebus, a wooden vessel abandoned by its crew in 1848 during an Arctic expedition, according to a news release from the Canadian government.

Multiple diving expeditions have taken place at the wreck site, discovered in 2014, according to the Canadian parks department.

In September, 56 separate dives took place at the wreck over the course of 11 days, providing researchers with a more comprehensive understanding of the ship, one of the “best-preserved” wooden wrecks in the world, according to the parks department.

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