"Once-in-a-generation" expedition launched to survey 2 legendary shipwrecks
Summary
Canadian researchers are starting a special expedition to study two famous shipwrecks in the North Atlantic. They will use underwater robots and cameras to create detailed digital models of the ships connected to well-known polar explorers Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott.Key Facts
- The expedition will survey two shipwrecks: the Quest and the Terra Nova.
- The Quest was the ship on which explorer Ernest Shackleton died in 1922.
- The Terra Nova was used by explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his 1912 Antarctic trip that ended tragically.
- Shackleton and Scott were originally colleagues but later became rivals in Antarctic exploration.
- The Terra Nova sank off Greenland in 1943 and was discovered in 2012.
- The Quest sank in 2024 in the Labrador Sea after being damaged by ice near Newfoundland.
- Researchers from Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Norway, and Denmark are involved in the project.
- The team aims to inspire new explorers by using modern technology to document these historic wrecks.
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