Haunting new images reveal final ship where legendary explorer died

Officials have released the first close-up images of the remains of Quest, the final ship of the legendary Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.The images were taken at the ship’s location in the Labrador Sea, around 1,280 feet deep in the waters off of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and were released in July. After 60 years, the vessel remains recognizable and in moderate condition, Dwight Coleman, co-chief scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), told Fox News Digital.“You could tell it was a ship,” he said.“It had an obvious bow and stern, rudder and propeller.“Even though it was sort of covered in fishing nets, you could still tell that some of that structure was preserved underneath the nets.”In a statement from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS), in partnership with WHOI, officials said the wreck “was populated with pink corals, and several species of fish including cod, red fish and wolf fish.”The images show fishing nets draped across parts of the wreck, as well as parts of its metal superstructure and portholes that still remain intact.Shackleton, one of history’s most celebrated Antarctic explorers, died on Quest in 1922 at age 47.

He suffered a heart attack while the ship was anchored in South Georgia, a remote island in the South Atlantic. After his death, Quest was later sold to Norwegian owners.It spent decades sailing in Arctic waters before being crushed by ice floes and sinking in the Labrador Sea in 1962.John Geiger, CEO of the RCGS, described seeing Quest for the first time as “a moving experience.”“To see Shackleton’s ship, and to think that Shackleton was standing on that deck a century ago… At first, there was a lot of darkness, but suddenly the bow emerges as you are going toward it.

It’s incredible,” Geiger said in a press release.The team used WHOI’s Falcon ROV to image the ship and create its digital twin, as well as DSV Alvin, the iconic submersible that first...