Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship found a century later, nearly 10,000 feet under the Antarctic ice

The Endurance, one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks, has been found off the coast of Antarctica more than 100 years after the vessel was slowly crushed by ice, forcing the British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew eventually to abandon the ship before it sank.

The 144-foot wooden vessel was discovered almost 10,000 feet below the surface of the Weddell Sea during a mission to find the missing ship.