Ship Beneath The Ice

A photographic record of the scientific expedition to the Weddell Sea to find Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance. Illustrated by members of the team on board the icebreaking polar research vessel SA Agulhas II. Text taken from the journal of Mensun Bound, the maritime archaeologist tasked with finding the weck of the famous ship that was crushed by the ice and went down in November 1915 at the very heart of what Shackleton himself called 'the worst portion of the worst sea in the world'. It was the beginning of what leader writers at The Times called, 'a noble venture', but what happened next was unexpected...