BREAKING this morning: Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance found off Antarctica in astonishingly good condition, ending 100-year search for wreck
Explorer Ernest Shackleton’s polar expedition ended abruptly in 1915 when his ship Endurance froze and sank in a field of ice in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica. For more than a hundred years, explorers have searched for the vessel, assuming whatever they eventually found would be mostly destroyed after being crushed by the ice that downed it.
And that’s where the Endurance was found over the weekend—with cooking utensils and even clothing still well-preserved, Mensun Bound, a marine archaeologist who is on the Endurance22 discovery expedition that located it,. “You can even see the ship’s name — E N D U R A N C E — arced across its stern directly below the taffrail. And beneath, as bold as brass, is Polaris, the five-pointed star, after which the ship was originally named.
Once they determined a location that was the most likely place the Endurance would be found, they used submersibles with cameras from below and sonar from above to find inconsistencies in the normally smooth ice sheet above the wreckage. Once it was located late last week, they sent down high-resolution cameras to film the wreckage.
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