Search begins for legendary Antarctic shipwreck: "Lethal environment"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ASouth African icebreaker departed Saturday morning in search of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, which sank off the coast of Antarctica in 1915 after being slowly crushed by pack ice. The expedition is headed to a location that the famed explorer called "the worst portion of the worst sea in the world."

"The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to confirm that the Endurance22 Expedition, which is aiming to locate, survey and film the wreck of Endurance,... has departed on schedule from Cape Town, headed for the Weddell Sea in Antarctica," the expedition's organizers announced.

As part of the renowned polar explorer's Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition between 1914 and 1917, Endurance was meant to make the first land crossing of Antarctica, but it fell victim to the merciless Weddell Sea.

Just east of the Larsen ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula, it became ensnared in sea-ice for over 10 months before being crushed and sinking some 3,000 meters below the surface.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/search-begins-for-legendary-antarctic-shipwreck-lethal-environment/ar-AATytZA

[Gruenemann]

1. "Endurance was meant to make the first land crossing of Antarctica"

I'd say that expedition was doomed from the start.