Impossible search for the greatest shipwreck
The latest bid to find Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s lost polar yacht is set to get under way. …
Sediment is building up slowly enough on the wreck that the timbers are probably still standing proud of the seafloor, but they could be spread out over a large distance. And, of course, there’s every possibility that Endurance was wrenched wide open on impact with the bed, its contents “exposed like a box of chocolates”, as Mensun Bound puts it.