What did the search team use?

Underwater drones from an icebreaker

Why is the wreck so well preserved?

Cold water lacks wood-eating organisms

Endurance Shipwreck Quiz: Finding Shackleton's Ship in 2022

This endurance shipwreck quiz searches beneath Antarctic sea ice. Play 10 interactive questions on Ernest Shackleton's ship crushed by ice and sunk in 1915, the crew's survival, the Endurance22 expedition, underwater drones launched from an icebreaker, finding the wreck about 3,000 meters down in March 2022, the name on the stern and protection under the Antarctic Treaty.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Leader
Who led the expedition on the Endurance?
Sea
In which sea was Endurance trapped?
Sank
When did Endurance sink?
Crew
What happened to the crew?
Found
When was the wreck found?
Deep
About how deep is the wreck?
Drone
What did the search team use?
Name
What was clearly visible on the stern?
Why
Why is the wreck so well preserved?
Protect
How is the wreck protected?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Who led the expedition on the Endurance?
Answer: Ernest Shackleton
In 1914.
Q2: In which sea was Endurance trapped?
Answer: Weddell Sea
Off Antarctica.
Q3: When did Endurance sink?
Answer: 1915
Crushed by ice.
Q4: What happened to the crew?
Answer: All survived
A famous survival story.
Q5: When was the wreck found?
Answer: 2022
In March.
Q6: About how deep is the wreck?
Answer: About 3,000 meters
Deep below the ice.
Q7: What did the search team use?
Answer: Underwater drones from an icebreaker
Remotely operated vehicles.
Q8: What was clearly visible on the stern?
Answer: The name ENDURANCE
Remarkably preserved.
Q9: Why is the wreck so well preserved?
Answer: Cold water lacks wood-eating organisms
No shipworms.
Q10: How is the wreck protected?
Answer: As a historic site under the Antarctic Treaty
Left undisturbed.

Found Beneath the Ice

In 1914 Ernest Shackleton set out to cross Antarctica, but his ship Endurance became trapped in the ice of the Weddell Sea. In 1915 the ice crushed it and it sank. Remarkably, all the crew survived after an epic journey.

In March 2022 the Endurance22 expedition, working from an icebreaker, used underwater drones to search beneath the sea ice. They found the wreck about 3,000 meters down, 107 years after it sank, with the name ENDURANCE clearly visible on the stern.

Cold Antarctic water lacks wood-eating organisms, so the ship is remarkably preserved. The wreck is protected as a historic site under the Antarctic Treaty and has been left undisturbed.

What This Quiz Teaches

History fans will enjoy these questions.

Who led the expedition
Where the ship sank
How the crew fared
How the wreck was found
How it is protected

Did You Know?

Shackleton sailed a small boat to South Georgia.
Frank Worsley was the captain.
Photographer Frank Hurley documented the voyage.
The find came near Shackleton's death centenary.
Sea creatures now live on the wreck.