Hanging picture reveals well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship

Slowly cracking via the dense pack ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea is hefty, ice-breaking analysis vessel S. A. Agulhas II (pictured beneath). It was a part of Endurance22, a profitable 2022 expedition to find the sunken ship of explorer Ernest Shackleton.

Endurance went down in 1915 after it was trapped by pack ice throughout its first voyage – leaving him and his crew of 27 males stranded, with little hope of rescue. “The story of survival of Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance is a legendary feat of management, grit, dedication and perseverance in opposition to all the chances,” says Nico Vincent, deputy chief of the Endurance22 expedition. In new ebook Endurance, he and the wreck mission chief John Shears element the seek for the misplaced ship.

A surprising chicken’s-eye view (pictured above) reveals members of Endurance22’s subsea staff edging a returning underwater autonomous car into place on the vessel’s stern earlier than heaving it onboard once more.

However, fittingly, centre stage (above) is taken by an incredible mosaic of over 25,000 pictures of the wreck itself. It reveals an extremely well-preserved ship, its masts, anchors and steam engine funnel all nonetheless current, whereas the hull can be intact, resting upright on the seabed. Shears and Vincent hope the story of the ship will provide a recent perspective on the epic story for a brand new technology.

Endurance: The invention of Shackleton’s legendary ship by John Shears and Nico Vincent is revealed on 5 November