The ship is said to be one of the most talked about ships in the world. Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance. The ship, which sank in 1915, was found more than a hundred years later. The BBC reported this in a report on Wednesday.
The ship was sunk in 1915 after being stranded in the sea at Weidel, and was found under the sea just six kilometers away.
"We are overwhelmed," said Mansoon Bound, director of the search operation. Because we found the wreckage of the ship and were able to take pictures of it.
A robotic underwater vehicle found the ship.
In 1915, Ernest Shackleton's endurance ship sank. The position that Captain Frank Warsley recorded on the ship at that time has changed over time. Because when he returned a few months later, the ship sank under the ice.
The ship is said to have capsized due to a large iceberg in the Waddell Sea.
However, the part of the ship that has been sunk for so many years at the bottom of the sea is in very good condition.
In this regard, Manson Bound reports, he has never seen such a beautifully preserved wooden ship after being under water for so many years.
Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton used the endurance ship for his third and fourth voyage to Antarctica.
However, in October 1915, he was stranded in an iceberg on his way to Antarctica aboard the Endurance. Shackleton and his crew disembarked from the ship with as much baggage as possible. Ernest Shackleton and his team survived the ordeal.
Endurance sinks to the bottom of the ocean months after being stuck in the ice.
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