Over 100 years after explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance was shipwrecked, The New York Times reported on March 9 that the ship has been discovered.
The miraculous story is now set to become a NatGeo documentary.Airing as part of the network’s “Explorer” franchise this fall, “Endurance” will chart the discovery of Sir Shackleton’s shipwrecked Endurance, which sank in the Antarctic in 1915.
The ship was located at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, using undersea drones.
The Endurance22 search expedition team had been searching for more than two weeks in a 150-square-mile area around where the 144-foot wooden ship went down.
The wreck was found at a depth of 3,008 meters.NatGeo is partnering with ABC News, Snow’s History Hit, All3Media label Little Dot Studios, and Consequential for the feature, directed by BAFTA nominee Natalie Hewit.The Endurance initially sank in 1915 after being “crushed
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