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wo international expeditions are embarking on a hunt to find
the wreck of the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that was
crushed by Antarctic pack ice in November 1915. The loss of
the ship under the ice triggered one of history’s greatest survival
stories. Shackleton and his 27 men spent weeks on the ice before using
the ship’s lifeboats to reach nearby Elephant Island in the South Shetland
Islands. The most remarkable part of the epic, though, saw Shackleton
and five others sail the jury-rigged James Caird lifeboat 800 miles from
Elephant Island to South Georgia – across treacherous, freezing waters
with scant navigational equipment. The remainder of the crew were
rescued in August 1916.
A number of previous expeditions to find the Endurance have failed.
Beginning in January next year, a British-led team from Cambridge
University’s Scott Polar Research Institute will use autonomous underwater
vehicles to travel almost two miles under the ice, using co-ordinates taken
by the Endurance’s captain, Frank Worsley, as the ship sunk.
A rival expedition is being launched by US shipwreck hunter David
Mearns, who has been studying Endurance for more than 15 years.LDBOATWORLDBOATWORLDBOATWORLD
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