These photos of Shackleton's lost ship Endurance are stunning. I've never seen such a perfectly preserved shipwreck. Interesting they can't bring anything to the surface due to an International Marine Treaty protecting it.
What life had attached to the ship?
"It would appear that there is little wood deterioration, inferring that the wood-munching animals found in other areas of our ocean are, perhaps unsurprisingly, not in the forest-free Antarctic region," commented deep-sea polar biologist Dr Michelle Taylor from Essex University.
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