JAMES CAIRD SOCIETY SHACKLETON NEWS

LOCATING THE ENDURANCE

Dr.Robert Ballard, who in 1985 located the Titanic (to the public enquiry into which Shackleton gave evidence) 4,000 metres below the surface of the North Atlantic, and also took part in the search for such historic ships as the Bismarck and the Lusitania, is reported to have abandoned his attempt, originally planned for the summers of 2001 and 2002, to locate and photograph the wreck of Endurance, the remains of which lie some 3,400 metres beneath the surface of the Weddell Sea.