Shackleton’s lost ship ‘could be raised from under sea off Antarctica’

Shackleton's ship, The Endurance, frozen in the ice of the Antarctic. Picture: Royal Geographic Society/PA Wire

Shackleton's ship, The Endurance, frozen in the ice of the Antarctic. Picture: Royal Geographic Society/PA Wire

Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship could be raised from under the sea, the expedition crew who found it has said.

Endurance became stuck in ice and sank in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica in 1915 and had been lost until it was located by a mission vessel which was launched in February, a month after the 100th anniversary of Shackletons death this year.

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