Though lost for decades, it took the team just five days to find the wreck, using advanced sonar that identified something ship-shaped 1,280 feet (390m) down on the seafloor, 15 nautical miles off the Canadian coast. The vessel is resting on its keel – its broken mast lying on the sand nearby. "It was a bit of a detective story initially," said search director David Mearns, "I thought we had ... maybe a 70% chance of finding it."

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