Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ wreck found in Antarctica

(ANSA) – LONDON, 09 MAR – 107 years after its sinking, the famous ship ‘Endurance’ of the British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton was found in Antarctica and filmed.

This is what we read on the BBC website. The wreck was identified thanks to underwater drones at a depth of 3,008 meters in the Weddell Sea, among the coldest waters on the planet, about six kilometers from where the boat had been slowly shattered by the ice in 1915. “We are excited to luck in having located it “, said Mensun Bound, the British archaeologist director of the expedition called Endurance 22. Shackleton sailed in 1914 with a crew of 27 from London to the South Pole. After the Endurance, about 44 meters and with three trees, she was imprisoned in the pack and managed with an extraordinary feat to rescue her men. (HANDLE).

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