After more than 100 years hidden in the icy waters of Antarctica, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance has been revealed in extraordinary 3D detail.
For the first time we can see the vessel, which sank in 1915 and lies 3,000m down at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, as if the murky water has been drained away.
The digital scan, which is made from 25,000 high resolution images, was captured when the ship was found in 2022.
It’s been released as part of a new documentary called Endurance, which will be shown at cinemas.
The team has scoured the scan for tiny details, each of which tell a story linking the past to the present.
In the picture below you can see the plates that the crew used for daily meals, left scattered across the deck.
In the next picture there’s a single boot that might have belonged to Frank Wild, Shackleton’s second-in-command.
Perhaps most extraordinary of all is a flare gun that’s referenced in the journals the crew kept.
The flare gun was fired by Frank Hurley, the expedition’s photographer, as the ship that had been the crew’s home was lost to the ice.
“Hurley gets this flare gun, and he fires the flare gun into the air with a massive detonator as a tribute to the ship,” explains Dr John Shears who led the expedition that found Endurance.
“And then in the diary, he talks about putting it down on the deck. And there we are. We come back over
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