MANY who cruise to the Antarctic learn of Ernest Shackleton, who led three British expeditions to the region. However no-one has laid eyes on Shackleton’s Endurance, which was crushed by drift ice in 1915 and sank in the Weddell Sea on an expedition which had set off three years earlier....
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MANY who cruise to the Antarctic learn of Ernest Shackleton, who led three British expeditions to the region.
However no-one has laid eyes on Shackleton’s Endurance, which was crushed by drift ice in 1915 and sank in the Weddell Sea on an expedition which had set off three years earlier.
That may all be about to change this winter though, when Endurance will be searched for on the seabed with remotely operated submarines.
Operating two miles beneath Endurance’s last known location, this is the team’s second attempt to find the ship, after the previous try in 2019 failed when contact was lost with the submersible.
The expedition is due to leave Cape Town on 05 Feb, reaching the Weddell Sea when the ice is least pervasive in the late Antarctic summer.
Let’s hope the expedition does not wind up like the last, or even worse – like Shackleton in 1912.
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