The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has been found, 10,000 feet down, at the bottom of the Weddell Sea.
The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing Shackleton and his men to make an harrowing escape on foot and in small boats.
Other than ice damage from time on the surface, the boat itself is in remarkably good shape.
"Without any exaggeration this is the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen - by far," said marine archaeologist Mensun Bound. "It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation," he told BBC News.
Some years back I wrote about what the Shackleton expedition carried away from the boat in a post entitled The Things Shackleton Carried.
I also wrote about the things they left back on the pack ice in a post entitled What They Did Not Carry.
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