Science & Planet A team of scientists in Antarctica began the quest for the legendary ship of Sir Ernest Shackleton: the Endurance. The explorer run there in 1914 to the south Pole - in the hope that the first to cross over - but the ship got stuck in pack ice. Shackleton and his crew were on an unlikely way to rescue, but the ship was swallowed up. An expedition wants to the Endurance now with the latest technology to find.
The First world War had just broken out, when Shackleton and his men from the British Plymouth set sail to the south Pole. The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was there three years earlier as first succeeded to the continent to reach and therefore there was only one big challenge: as the first Antarctica crossing from sea to sea. (read on below)