Emily Chan
“Right now, we don’t intend to touch the wreck. It actually lies in an already protected area for wildlife, so nobody should be touching it,” said associate search director Antoine Normandin. “But we do hope to go back and photograph it with a remotely operated vehicle to really understand its state.”
In 2022, researchers identified another one of Shackleton’s ships. They found the Endurance in about 10,000 feet of icy water about a century after its sinking.
A team of experts used an icebreaker ship and underwater drones to detect the wreck at the bottom of the Wendell Sea near the Antarctica Peninsula.
Ernest Shackleton will continue to live on as one of the greatest explorers of all time. He made groundbreaking achievements in exploration and was known for looking after his crew. Every year, hundreds of people still visit his grave to pay their respects.
