What happened to the Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 has been an enduring mystery. Now the wooden ship Endurance has been located about 10,000 feet underwater in the Weddell Sea, remarkably intact.
. The men were told to gather no more than two pounds each of personal gear from the ship; much of the ship's supplies had already become inaccessible due to broken timbers in the hull. The Endurance finally broke up and sank into the Weddell Sea on Nov. 21, 1915.
The expedition used sonar to find the sunken ship. It was located about 4 miles south of where Capt. Frank Worsley had noted the ship's location back in 1915. "It can only be one ship," Shears said."In this area, few ships have ever even been here. We're only I think the fourth ship to ever get into this place in the Wendell Sea. It's Endurance. It can be nothing else."
"You can see inside the hatchways, the stairs, you can see the ropes and the rigging. It's as if it sank only yesterday," he said.
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