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The explorer’s three-masted barque was found earlier this year by the Endurance22 Expedition led by Mensun Bound. Asked if it will be raised from 9,869ft under the Weddell Sea, the maritime archaeologist said he plans to re-examine “by far the finest wooden shipwreck” he has seen.
He added at a London event, put on by law firm BDB Pitmans: “There are lot of contrasting views about that – we have a range of ideas. We have to remember the Shackleton family, who very likely own the ship…they have fairly strong views of their own.
“Bringing it up…we’ve got to think about conserving it and the process of that, which museum is going to take that, which could take forever and a day. If we leave it there, it’s organic, it’s going to decay.”
Sir Ernest and his crew of 27 left South Georgia in December 1914, intending to make the first land crossing of Antarctica – but Endurance became trapped in dense pack ice.
They abandoned ship and lived on the ice. All were rescued alive, the last ones in August 1916.
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