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First Video Footage Captured of Shackleton’s Final Ship Quest
July 13, 2026 at 06:01 PM
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Scientists have recorded the first video footage of the wreck of Quest, the ship on which explorer Ernest Shackleton died in 1922.
- The expedition was a joint effort by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
- The shipwreck was found in the Labrador Sea off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
- Shackleton died aboard Quest in 1922 during his final Antarctic voyage.
