🚢Ernest Shackleton's Endurance
The ship has been found in the Antarctic 107 years after it sank
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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
The ship has been found in the Antarctic 107 years after it sank
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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
⚓️One of the world’s most well preserved ships has been discovered by scientists 107 years after it sank 
🌊The vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Endurance, was uncovered at the bottom of the Weddell Sea
⚫️Shackleton and his crew were forced to make a heroic escape onto the ice after it crushed their ship and sank it in 1915
❄️A team of marine archaeologists and technicians located it using undersea drones, fighting ice and freezing temperatures as they searched for over two weeks
🚢Footage shows the vessel in surprisingly good condition, sitting in an upright position above the seabed
🗣️"Without any exaggeration, this is the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen - by far," Marine archaeologist Mensun Bound told the BBC
🧊The ship lies over 3,000 metres below sea level in waters that are some of the iciest in the world.
The conditions helped preserve it over the last 100 years
The conditions helped preserve it over the last 100 years
💬"It is in such a good state that I felt in that moment we could almost raise her and sail off”
Marine archaeologist Mensun Bound says his head is still spinning after he and his team found Ernest Shackleton’s ship
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/0…
Marine archaeologist Mensun Bound says his head is still spinning after he and his team found Ernest Shackleton’s ship
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/0…
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