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⚠️Nuevo gran hito de la arqueología submarina: en sorprendente estado de conservación, restos del legendario #Endurance, el buque de Ernest Shackleton hundido en 1915, fueron encontrados en Marzo 5 a >3km de profundidad en el #MarDeWeddell, #Antartica👇 bbc.com/news/science-e… 
La expedición de Shackleton buscaba completar la primera travesía Trans #Antártica. Pero el Endurance fue atrapado por el #HieloMarino q terminó rompiendo su casco. El objetivo de la misión cambió entonces a simplemente sobrevivir! theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
Shackleton y su grupo acamparon sobre el #HieloMarino durante 5 meses, y luego navegaron en botes salvavidas hacia la deshabilitada isla Elefante. Desde allí, Shackleton y otros 5 navegaron 1300km hasta las Georgia del Sur... coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20f…
Huge congratulations to @Endurance_22 and @NatGeo for finding the wreck of #Shackleton’s #Endurance. The wreck is amazing but can we also talk about some of the #Antarctic sea floor creatures that now call it home! Add any others you spot to the thread! (1)
Huge #Antarctic sea anemones (Hormathia or similar) dangle their tentacles in the icy water! All of the animals that I have spotted so far are filter feeding! (2)
Sea squirts pump water in and out through their two syphons to collect plankton and marine snow (dead things and poo raining down from the surface). (3)
!!!!ENDURANCE DISCOVERY ALERT!!!! Shackleton’s lost ship has been located - and the images are INCREDIBLE. Amazing achievement for @Endurance_22 team
(Image courtesy of Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic) #Endurance22
(Image courtesy of Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic) #Endurance22
@Endurance_22 The wreck was found just over 3,000m down in the Weddell Sea - just 7km from the coordinates recorded on the day the ship vanished beneath the ice more than 100 years ago #Endurance22
(Images courtesy of Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic)
(Images courtesy of Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic)
It’s condition is extraordinary - it looks like it has been frozen in time. You can see clear features - the wheel is almost pristine, bolts gleam from the wood and there’s even some discarded crockery on the deck #Endurance22
Endurance has been found.
Discovered at 3000 metres on 5 March 2022
100 years to the day since Shackleton was buried
#Endurance22
Discovered at 3000 metres on 5 March 2022
100 years to the day since Shackleton was buried
#Endurance22
After weeks of searching Endurance was found within the search box conceived by Mensun Bound, only just over four miles south of the location at which its captain Frank Worsley calculated it had sunk. The entire team aboard #Endurance22 are happy and a little exhausted!
Here's how it happened.
