During a routine exploration of the Antarctic beneath the ice, originally linked to an expedition searching for the wreck of the Endurance, the ship, researchers were surprised to observe patterned ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton was "well aware" of "structural weaknesses" in his ship Endurance before it sank, suggests new research. The Irish-born Polar explorer and a crew of 27 men sailed for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For those unfamiliar, the above is not what ships are, ideally, supposed to do. Whoops; (photo/National Maritime Museum, Greenwich ...

Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area ...

Oct. 6 (UPI) --Sir Ernest Shackleton's polar ship, Endurance, was considered to be the strongest of its time but the vessel had significant structural weaknesses that caused its demise -- and an ...

On Oct. 27, 1915, after being caught and crushed by packed ice for nine months in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton and his crew abandoned the Endurance and their quest to traverse the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Endurance set sail from Plymouth in 1914 with a crew of past and future polar icons aboard. But true fame only found the ship ...