What does it take to find a 100-year-old shipwreck? The S.A. Agulhas II and South Africans on ice. After departing from Cape Town's harbour 33 days ago, this seriously lekker local crew found and made history today. Check it out:
left Cape Town harbour just over a month ago in search of a shipwreck that sunk to the bottom of Antarctica’s Weddel Sea in in 1915.is owned by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment and travels under Master, Captain Knowledge Bengu.With a full South African crew and some of Cape Town’s leading minds aboard, the mission was set: find polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, theAfrica on ice.
65 scientists and explorers, more than a century later, and 3008 meters below the oceans surface, Shackleton’s vessel has been found!S.A. Agulhas II
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