A team of scientists and archaeologists have launched an audacious attempt to find explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, which was lost in an ice floe off Antarctica more than 100 years ago. The expedition, which combines scientific research and marine archaeology, is using drones to explore one of the harshest environments on the planet. The Weddell Sea Expedition will harness Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) to locate the remains of the famous ship, which was crushed by pack ice and sank in November 1915. Armed with this information, members of the Weddell Sea Expedition on board the research vessel S.A. Agulhas II will send their drones under the ice to locate Endurance’s final resting place. “We have begun transiting to the sinking site of Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’,” the expedition tweeted Monday.

Source: Fox News February 01, 2019 07:07 UTC