First images released of the wreck of Quest, explorer Ernest Shackleton’s last ship
The expedition used remotely operated and crewed submersibles to document the wreck and build a 3D model for future scientific study.
- On July 2, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society's Heroic Age Expedition released the first underwater images of Sir Ernest Shackleton's final ship, Quest, lying about 390 metres below the Labrador Sea.
- Shackleton died aboard Quest in January 1922 at age 47, marking the end of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration; the ship later served as a sealer until May 5, 1962, when ice crushed and sank it off Labrador.
- Entangled in abandoned fishing nets, the wreck prompted co-chief scientist David Mearns to call the damage "disappointing," yet the site has become "a stunning oasis of life on an otherwise barren seafloor."
- Expedition research director Antoine Normandin confirmed the vessel's identity by matching distinctive portholes to historic photographs; the team is building a three-dimensional digital model using photogrammetry technology from Newfoundland-based Kraken Robotics.
- Following the Quest dives, the expedition will travel to Greenland's southern tip to survey Terra Nova, the ship used by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott during his 1910 Antarctic expedition.
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Shackleton's final ship is no longer just a sonar shadow
An expedition led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in partnership with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has obtained the first close-up images of the wreck of Quest, the last ship of famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, in the Labrador Sea. The images were obtained by WHOI's Falcon ROV and DSV Alvin, the first submersible to visit the wreck of Titanic 40 years ago.
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The Hamilton SpectatorFirst images released of the wreck of Quest, explorer Ernest Shackleton’s last ship
A small team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society have become the first people to lay eyes on Sir Ernest Shackleton's last ship since it sank in the Labrador
First images released of the wreck of Quest, explorer Ernest Shackleton's last ship
A team of explorers led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society has released the first images of the wreck of Quest, the ship upon which legendary Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton died in 1922. The ghostly ship now lies at the bottom of the Labrador Sea, tangled in errant fishing nets. The images released Wednesday […]
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