Track Marine Archaeologists Searching Icy Antarctic Seas for Ernest Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’

A team aboard a modern icebreaker will survey the site with state-of-the-art underwater drones in hopes of finding the historic vessel

February 25, 2022

Marine archaeologists are searching for a historic century-old shipwreck, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, in some of the most dangerous seas on the planet, reports Henry Fountain of the New York Times.

Endurance is “one of the most famous shipwrecks, perhaps on par with the Titanic,” writes Fountain. “It’s a relic of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, when adventurers undertook elaborate, risky and wildly popular expeditions to the continent and the pole.”

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