Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said Endurance was found at a depth of 3,008 metres and approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by the ship’s captain Frank Worsley.
According to the new development, the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance has been found 107 years after it became trapped in sea ice and sank off the coast of Antarctica.
The wooden ship had not been seen
since it went down in the Weddell Sea in 1915, and in February the Endurance22
Expedition set off from Cape Town, South Africa, a month after the 100th
anniversary of Sir Ernest’s death on a mission to locate it.
The expedition’s director of
exploration said footage of Endurance showed it to be intact and “by far the
finest wooden shipwreck” he has seen.
Mensun Bound said: “We are overwhelmed by our good fortune in having located and captured images of Endurance.
“It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. You can even see ‘Endurance’ arced across the stern, directly below the taffrail.
“This is a milestone in polar history.”
Dr John Shears, the expedition
leader, said his team, which was accompanied by historian Dan Snow, had made
“polar history” by completing what he called “the world’s most challenging
shipwreck search”.
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