Journey To The Antarctic Episode 1- Preparing For Our Antarctic Expedition
20th Century • 9m 48s
Our first Endurance 22 'Journey to the Antarctic' episode covers the team making preparations for the voyage in Cape Town. Dan Snow takes us on a tour of the modern ice breaker vessel SA Agulhas II, showing us how state-of-the-art technology aboard will help us locate the shipwreck in any conditions.
Crushed by the polar ice of the Weddell Sea in 1915, no previous attempt to locate the wreckage of Endurance has been successful.
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