Why Did The Endurance Sink?

The Endurance ship sank because it was trapped in dense pack ice, forcing the 28 men on board to eventually abandon ship.

Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out to achieve the first land crossing of Antarctica with the ship, but Endurance did not reach land.

Shackleton was tripped up by the Weddell’s notoriously thick, long-lasting sea ice, which results from a circular current that keeps much ice within it.

In early January 1915 Endurance became stuck less than 100 miles from its destination and drifted with the ice for more than 10 months as the ice slowly crushed it.

The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack ice and sank during an expedition by the explorer Ernest Shackleton.

A team of adventurers, marine archaeologists and technicians located the wreck at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, using undersea drones.