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Letter: Shackleton's doomed ship makes an incredible sight

Published 13 November 2024

From Gerald Legg, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, UK

What an amazing image of Shackleton’s ill-fated ship Endurance. The preservation is astonishing compared with that of Titanic. Endurance sits on the seabed at a depth of 3008 metres compared with Titanic at 3800, so both very deep and cold, but the former appears to be in much better order with few signs of steel decay. Is there any explanation as to why it looks so good(2 November, p 24)?

Issue no. 3517 published 16 November 2024

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