The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has been found off the coast of Antarctica. It had not been seen since it was crushed by sea ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.
Scientists on the Endurance22 Expedition set off from Cape Town, South Africa, in February – a month after the 100th anniversary of Shackleton's death on a mission to locate it. Endurance was found at a depth of 3,008 metres and approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by the ship's captain Frank Worsley, according to the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust.
The expedition's director of exploration said footage showed it to be intact and "by far the finest wooden shipwreck" he had seen. Mensun Bound said: "We are overwhelmed by our good fortune in having located and captured images of Endurance."
