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00:00It's a piece of maritime history that has been lost for over half a century.
00:08Some 390 metres deep down in the Atlantic, off the Canadian coast of Newfoundland and Labrador,
00:15a group of researchers has located the wreck of the Quest using sonar technology.
00:23It was the last vessel helmed by the famed Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.
00:30Hundreds of hours of work that have brought people from all over the world together to make this happen.
00:36An immense accomplishment I think for the society and I think for honestly closure in terms of looping the loop with Shackleton.
00:47Despite sinking after being damaged by ice in 1962, the team says the schooner-rigged vessel is still intact.
00:55It's on the ship that Shackleton embarked on his last voyage to Antarctica in 1922.
01:00But the explorer never made it. He died of a heart attack aboard the ship near the island of South Georgia.
01:08Seven years before Shackleton sealed his place in expeditionary history,
01:12after making an epic escape as another one of his ships, Endurance, sank in icy seas off Antarctica in 1915.
01:21During the 17-day long trek that followed, Shackleton and his team defied mountainous seas
01:26and freezing temperatures travelling in just a small open boat.
01:30It's considered one of the most remarkable achievements in maritime history.