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Digital twins of Shackleton's Quest and Scott's Terra Nova created after deep-sea expedition
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Digital twins of Shackleton's Quest and Scott's Terra Nova created after deep-sea expedition
A 21-day expedition led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society has produced highly detailed 3D models of the shipwrecks of polar explorers Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott.
- The Quest, Shackleton's final ship, sank in 1962 and was discovered in 2024; the Terra Nova sank in 1943.
- The expedition, which left Woods Hole on 2 July, used underwater imaging technology from Voyis to scan the wrecks.
- Expedition leader John Geiger said the project aims to inspire a new generation of explorers and highlight how little of the ocean is mapped.
- Geiger noted that marine biologists are studying the wildlife around the wrecks and the effects of deep-sea fishing trawlers on the sites.
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