Ernest Shackleton

Expedition team locates wreckage of explorer's ship which sank in Weddell Sea in 1915.

A previous attempt to find the Endurance three years ago ended in failure. It was surveyed using the latest tools and its position confirmed. “We have made polar history with the discovery of Endurance, and successfully completed the world’s most challenging shipwreck search.” We were able to film the wreck in super-high definition. He tweeted: “The wreck is coherent, in an astonishing state of preservation. “This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen.

Explorers and researchers have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915.

In the Weddell Sea, Endurance never reached land and became trapped in the dense pack ice and the 28 men on board eventually had no choice but to abandon ship. From there, he was able to mount a rescue of the men waiting on Elephant Island and bring them home without loss of life. Shackleton and five others then made a 1300km journey in the lifeboat, James Caird, to reach South Georgia. Shackleton and two others then crossed the mountainous island to the whaling station at Stromness. It was Sir Ernest Shackleton's ambition to achieve the first land crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea via the South Pole to the Ross Sea. He said the find was "a milestone in polar history" and would help bring Shackleton's story to the next generation. The ship was crushed by sea-ice, forcing British explorer Ernest Shackleton and his men to make an astonishing escape on foot and in small boats.

More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in ...

"This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation," Mensun Bound, the mission's director of exploration, said in a statement. The ship, which sank in 1915, is 3,008 meters (1.9 miles or 9,842 feet) deep in the Weddell Sea, a pocket in the Southern Ocean along the northern coast of Antarctica , south of the Falkland Islands.

The Endurance, one of the world's most famous shipwrecks, has been found off the coast of Antarctica more than 100 years after the vessel was slowly crushed ...

His “detailed records were invaluable in our quest to locate the wreck,” Bound said.Bound said the wreck was “upright ... intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation.”British historian Dan Snow said in a video published by the BBC that there was an “overwhelming sense of happiness and relief” among the crew when they learned that the vessel had been found with the use of specialist equipment including submarines. Sea ice has since reached its lowest level ever recorded, making conditions for the search more favorable.Shackleton himself described the location as “the worst portion of the worst sea in the world,” the Guardian reported.“Nothing was touched on the wreck,” Snow said, calling the mission the “greatest experience” of his career.“It is protected by the Antarctic Treaty,” Snow explained, adding that the team did not “wish to tamper with it.”The 1959 Antarctic Treaty declared the site of the Endurance a historic monument.The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning.By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy The team’s goal was to find the wreck, using drones and specialist equipment including submarines, helicopters and robots.Team members said they based their search on the last known position of the ship, as recorded in 1915 by the ship’s captain, Frank Worsley. The vessel was found about four miles south of its last logged position — coordinates which were found in Worsley’s diary: 68°39’ 30”S, 52°26’30”W.In a statement, Mensun Bound, the director of exploration on the expedition, paid tribute to Worsley’s navigational skills. The stern, wheel, bow and deck were also visible.Before the ship sank, Shackleton and 27 crew members were headed to a bay in the Weddell Sea, where they hoped they would kick-start the first crossing on foot of Antarctica via the South Pole to the Ross Sea.The Weddell Sea is known for its dangerous, icy conditions, which has made searches for the ship difficult, the BBC reported. (Reuters)The Endurance, one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks, has been found off the coast of Antarctica more than 100 years after the vessel was slowly crushed by ice, forcing the British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew eventually to abandon the ship before it sank. It was literally “frozen in time,” he said.Footage taken at the scene showed the paint is still visible, along with the ship’s name “ENDURANCE” above a star on the hull.

A view of the stern of the wreck of Endurance, polar explorer's Ernest Shackleton's ship. Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer ...

Wreck of polar explorer's ship discovered off coast of Antarctica 100 years after his death.