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An expedition team has found the underwater wreckage of a ship that famous explorer Ernest Shackleton chartered for a trip to Antarctica,
Grainy footage from sonar imaging showed the wreckage, with the ship sitting upright, on the bottom of the ocean floor near the coastlines of Newfoundland and Labrador, according to the"Very quickly you could see it was Quest," Society CEO and expedition leader John Geiger told the newspaper. "The vessel is intact. It’s sitting on its keel, the mast is down, and you can see it on the seafloor.
The ship continued to be in service for many years as a rescue and exploratory vessel — and even for hunting seals — until ice damaged and sunk it near Newfoundland and Labrador in 1962., on which he sailed from London in 1914 and journeyed to the South Pole for an ill-fated effort to cross Antarctica for the first time ever.e and his crew arrived at the Weddell Sea, just off the coast of Antarctica, sea ice trapped the ship for months until it became damaged and started taking on water.
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