![]() ![]() “ anxious in time to conduct a proper marine biological survey because she is this incredible oasis in a vast plain. The technology’s there, we can have a look through some of the gaps. It’s like the film Citizen Kane with all the antiques, everything is there in that box. He added: “She’s the ultimate sealed box mystery, it’s an Aladdin’s cave. The team instead deployed a drone off the back of the ship to move around the area.īound has revealed he is planning to look more closely at the wreck, which is “by far the finest wooden shipwreck” he had ever seen. “Bonkers idea, because the ice is ever-shifting, it’s moving erratically.” “The plan was, if we couldn’t near the box, to use helicopters to lift – which was a crazy plan – all the equipment required, build a camp on the ice, drill a massive hole in the ice and drop the drones like VHS tapes through the ice. ![]() “They were still doing readings with the sun to fix their position, latitude and longitude, and they made daily weather observations, things like that. He said: “We had a brilliant search box that Mensun Bound worked out, looking at all the data from 1915, looking at where the ship probably sunk. The television historian Dan Snow said the search for Endurance, in which he took part, was “lucky” as they were able to navigate through the sea ice with “relative ease”. The crew were stuck in the ice for 10 months before escaping in lifeboats and on foot. The vessel broke up and sank below the Weddell Sea on 21 November 1915. Over a century after it sank to the depths of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, the lost ship of Anglo Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton has been found. Shackleton and his crew set out to achieve the first land crossing of Antarctica but Endurance failed to reach land and became trapped in dense pack ice, forcing the 28 men onboard to abandon ship. ![]()
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