An expedition that set out in search of the lost ship of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has found it — 106 years after the vessel sank off Antarctica.
The wooden ship Endurance has been located about 10,000 feet underwater in the Weddell Sea, remarkably intact.
The find is “a milestone in polar history,” said Mensun Bound, a maritime archaeologist and director of exploration on the expedition, called Endurance22.
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