A scientific expedition will next year try to find the Endurance, the ill-fated ship of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The vessel sank in 1915, crushed by sea-ice in the Weddell Sea and lost in 3,000m of water.
Shackleton and his crew were forced into lifeboats to make an extraordinary and heroic escape across the Southern Ocean.
He expects to have the cruise on station in January/February.
Locating the shipwreck is not the primary goal of the expedition; the major objective is to visit and study the Larsen C Ice Shelf, which last July calved one of thr biggest icebergs ever recorded in Antarctica.
But because Larsen is so close to the last known position of the Endurance, it makes sense to also have a go at finding the famous ship.
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