[2] He was the first person to publish a report on the testimony of Supunger, an Inuk hunter from the Boothia Peninsula who told Hall he had found an underground burial vault on King William Island while searching for items left by Franklin with his uncle in 1863.
[3] After leaving university he served as an officer with the Royal Canadian Navy for eleven years, specializing in navigation and submarines.
In 1992 and 1993 he organized airborne magnetometer surveys of an area near Grant Point where the testimony of the only Inuit eye witness, named Puhtoorak, indicated one of Sir John Franklin's wrecks had sunk.
They searched the southwestern corner of Wilmot and Crampton Bay, and found tent sites, relics, and a skull.
Douglas Stenton, an archaeologist with Parks Canada, adopted Woodman's belief that "all Inuit stories concerning white men should have a discoverable factual basis" when assessing possible Franklin-related archaeological sites in and around King William Island.