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A team of researchers are under way on an expedition to survey the famed shipwrecks of explorers Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the aim of which is to capture and document images of the wrecks and enable the creation of 3D replicas of the ships.
In what is being termed a “once-in-a-generation” expedition, the researchers are returning to the wrecks of Quest and Terra Nova, the two ships that were captained by Sir Ernest Shackleton and Capt. Scott.
The Quest, a 125-tonne motor-sailing steamship, was rediscovered in 2024 lying at a depth of 390 meters off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. The schooner-rigged vessel served as Shackleton’s last expedition ship on the Shackleton-Rowett expedition of 1921/22. The famed explorer died on board on January 5, 1922, after suffering a heart attack while the vessel was at anchor at Grytviken, South Georgia. He was aged 47.
Following months of planning, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS), in partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), is in the middle of an expedition to film the two wrecks. The highlight of the mission so far was a dive by WHOI’s human-occupied submersible Alvin to the wreck of Quest, the first time that people visited the wreck and saw it with their own eyes. It will also be only the second time that a submersible has reached Terra Nova.
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