107 years later, explorer Ernest Shackleton's sunken ship endurance is discovered 'virtually intact'

  • 19 Mar - 25 Mar, 2022
  • Mag The Weekly
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A discovery over a century in the making! About 107 years after explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship was crushed by ice while travelling to Antarctica in 1915, the vessel has been found – and it's in shockingly good condition. In order to find the ship, an expedition team made use of the coordinates Captain Frank Worsley wrote down when the vessel sank, according to the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, which organised the search. The vessel ended up being located just four miles south of those coordinates at a depth of almost 10,000 feet in the Weddell Sea. But the most amazing part of the discovery? The shipwreck is so well-preserved that even the name of the ship can still be clearly seen across the stern. "The preservation is beyond imagination," Mensun Bound, director of exploration at the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, told NBC News. "It is virtually intact." "We are overwhelmed by our good fortune in having located and captured images of Endurance," he added in a statement. "This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen." One factor that likely played a huge role in ship preservation was the "super cold" water temperature of the Weddell Sea, historian Dan Snow told NBC News.

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