SEARCH FOR ENDURANCE
Experts to map ship sinking site
RESEARCHERS looking for the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship have reached the spot where it sank in the Antarctic.
Using robotic submersibles they will search the ocean floor 9,000ft below for Endurance, which got trapped in ice in January 1915 and went down 10 months later.
The expedition will not retrieve artefacts from the wreck but map the area for 45 hours, take photos and make a 3D model of the site.
Scientist Prof Julian Dowdeswell said the images will be “almost as good” as ones we can take.
Shackleton made an epic, 720-mile journey in a lifeboat and saved all his 28 crew. Endurance & explorer Shackleton