the agulhas ii is the icebreaker taking on that challenge. underwater robots kitted out with sonar and cameras will hunt for the wreck 3000 metres down. the hope is it s well preserved by the icy water. shackleton s expedition diary was saved before the endurance sank. she went today. 5pm. she went down by the head. the stern, the cause of all the trouble, was the last to go underwater. i cannot write about it. you can read about how it was creaking. they talk to her and talk about her as a personality. there s this real kind of sense of how crushed they were when the ship was crushed and sank as well. the endurance crew travelled for hundreds of miles to get to safety. miraculously, they all survived. but the ship that had been their home is still silently waiting to be discovered. rebecca morelle, bbc news.
its exact location, though, was recorded, and this is where the search will begin. the agulhas ii is the icebreaker taking on that challenge. underwater robots kitted out with sonar and cameras will hunt for the wreck 3000 metres down. the hope is it s well preserved by the icy water. shackleton s expedition diary was saved before the endurance sank. she went today. 5pm. she went down by the head. the stern, the cause of all the trouble, was the last to go underwater. i cannot write about it. you can read about how it was creaking. they talk to her, talk about her as a personality. there s this real kind of sense of how crushed they were when the ship was crushed and sank as well. the endurance crew travelled for hundreds of miles to get to safety. miraculously, they all survived.
the impact of the sea bed, it will be the endurance, and she did, she held together beautifully. but i have never, ever seen a wreck anything like as beautiful and as inspiring as this one. the condition of sir ernest shackleton s ship is astonishing. the ship s wheel is almost pristine. bolts gleam in the woodwork. the portholes look polished. and these white circles are dinner plates, abandoned by the crew. this was the polar ice breaker that brought the team to the wreck. the conditions were challenging. the agulhas ii had to carve its way through the thick ice in the weddell sea. underwater robots were deployed and spent weeks searching the deep, until the endurance was at last found. probably the most famous as yet undiscovered shipwreck in the world, and now we know exactly where it is. we know what it looks like, we know what condition it s
i thought, if there s any wood built ship that could survive the impact of the sea bed, it will be the endurance, and she did, she held together beautifully. but i have never, ever seen a wreck anything like as beautiful and as inspiring as this one. the condition of sir ernest shackleton s ship is astonishing. the ship s wheel is almost pristine. bolts gleam in the woodwork. the portholes look polished. and these white circles are dinner plates, abandoned by the crew. this was the polar ice breaker that brought the team to the wreck. the conditions were challenging. the agulhas ii had to carve its way through the thick ice in the weddell sea. underwater robots were deployed and spent weeks searching the deep, until the endurance was at last found. probably the most famous as yet undiscovered shipwreck in the world, and now we know
the agulhas ii had to carve its way through the thick ice in the weddell sea. underwater robots were deployed and spent weeks searching the deep, until the endurance was at last found. probably the most famous as yet undiscovered shipwreck in the world and now we know exactly where it is, we know what it looks like, we know what condition it is in, and we can broadcast images of that around the world. it matters because people will see those images and will connect to this extraordinary story from our history. the greatest story of antarctic survival of all time. and this was the ship just before it sank. captured in footage restored and released by the bfi. the endurance became stuck in sea ice soon after setting off from south georgia. drifting for months before an order was eventually given to abandon the ship. miraculously, all of the crew survived. the endurance expedition