![]() ![]() The crew abandoned the ship and set up a makeshift camp on nearby ice floes for five months. ![]() Unfortunately, in 1915, the expedition ship became trapped in a dense pack of ice off the Caird coast, drifting for 10 months before it was ultimately crushed in the pack ice. The search team announced their discovery on March 9, 2022.Įndurance has a storied history among even the most famous shipwrecks due to the harrowing survival story of the Antarctic explorer at its helm: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, who led a crew of 27 men (and one cat) on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition headed for the South Pole. ![]() Location: Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic PeninsulaĪfter resting 10,000 feet below the waves of the Weddell Sea for over 106 years, a team of technicians, marine archaeologists, and adventurers have finally uncovered the final resting place of the three-masted, 144-foot-long wooden ship Endurance. ![]()
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