Wreck hunters find the ship on which famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton made his final voyage.
Wreck hunters have found the ship on which the famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton made his final voyage.Shackleton suffered a fatal heart attack on board on 5 January 1922 while trying to reach the Antarctic.
"His final voyage kind of ended that Heroic Age of Exploration, of polar exploration, certainly in the south," said renowned shipwreck hunter David Mearns, who directed the successful search operation. The main mast is broken and hanging over the port side, but otherwise the ship appears to be broadly intact.
His original plan had been to explore the Arctic, north of Alaska, but when the Canadian government withdrew financial support, the expedition headed south in Quest to the Antarctic. After his death, Quest was involved in other important expeditions, including the 1930-31 British Arctic Air Route Expedition led by British explorer Gino Watkins, who himself tragically died aged 25 while exploring Greenland.
Hundreds of people visit his grave on South Georgia every year to pay their respects to the man known by his crews simply as "The Boss".
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