It was revealed Wednesday that the wreck of Endurance, the ship explorer Ernest Shackleton used in an ill-fated expedition to Antarctica, has been located at the bottom of the Weddell Sea off the continent.
The ship was crushed by ice and sank in 1915. Shackleton and his crew, who lived on the ship for months while it was trapped in ice, escaped the ordeal. Images of Endurance, encased in ice before sinking, are part of the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the University of Miami’s Richter Library.
The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust provided the search team that discovered the Endurance in about 10,000 feet of water, remarkably preserved because of the frigid waters.
