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The Guardian - UK
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Endurance will ‘decay out of existence’ unless ship is raised from sea

Photo from October 1915 of the Endurance keeling over, trapped by ice
The Endurance broke up and sank below the Weddell Sea in Antarctica in 1915. Photograph: Royal Geographic Society/PA

Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance, will “decay out of existence” on the Antarctic seabed unless it is raised and preserved, the archaeologist who discovered the wreck has said.

Mensun Bound, who found the vessel in March, said the question of whether it should be hauled out of the freezing waters is a “hot potato” and brings forth a cavalcade of legal and logistical issues.

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