#ernest shackleton
The wreck of the steam-yacht Endurance, which famously sank in 1915 during an Antarctic expedition by the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, has been rediscovered by searchers using autonomous underwater vehicles.
The shipwreck was found at a depth of 9,869 feet (3,008 meters) beneath West Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, according to the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT), which sponsored the search.
That’s only about 4 nautical miles (7 km) south of the location fixed by the ship’s captain, Frank Worsley, who used a sextant to record the position of its sinking after several months of the ship being surrounded and eventually crushed by ice. Read more.
Endurance: Shackleton’s lost ship is found in Antarctic
:-O . Actually in pretty good shape (I thought that ship was totally crusged by ice)
second-to-last batch of @terrebus-fcdoodles for #theterrortober event on twitter! as always you can also find these on my dedicated terror twitter @sizeofacherry