People thought the story of ‘Endurance’ was over when it sank in November 1915, but it wasn’t. After going through storms, blizzards and thick sea ice, we have got some astonishing images of ‘Endurance’ and a laser scan accurate to within centimeters. The team has found not only the world’s most famous shipwreck but also its most inaccessible. Snow said: “This has been the most exciting and challenging experience of my career so far. The wreck was eventually found at a depth of 3008 meters in the Weddell Sea. With them, on board the South African icebreaker Agulhas II, was a crew of scientists and archaeologists alongside a team of highly experienced extreme environment filmmakers, led by Dan Snow for History Hit, who documented the events in real-time leading up to the historic discovery. John Shears with marine archaeologist Mensun Bound as director of exploration. The expedition was led by polar geographer Dr. 5 this year on a voyage to the Weddell Sea, off the coast of Antarctica where the Endurance sank. Organized by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, the expedition to locate the shipwreck set off from Cape Town on Feb. After several attempts, Shackleton eventually made it back to Elephant Island to rescue his crew. The crew made it by sea to uninhabited Elephant Island before Shackleton and five men set off in a lifeboat on an epic journey to seek help from a whaling station in South Georgia, more than 800 miles away. However, nearing Antarctica, the ship became trapped in pack ice and sank in 1915. 5, 1914, carrying Shackleton and 27 other men with the goal of reaching the South Pole and crossing the continent via an overland trek. “Endurance” left South Georgia for Antarctica on Dec. National Geographic has partnered exclusively with History Hit, the SVOD and content platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow All3Media’s Little Dot Studios and production company Consequential for a documentary detailing the successful search and discovery of one of the great lost shipwrecks of history - Ernest Shackleton’s “Endurance.” The wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship “Endurance” has been found 107 years after it sank off the coast of Antarctica and National Geographic has been swift to commission a documentary on the subject that has fascinated the world for over a century.
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