Underwater robot 'Lassie' discovers remarkable icefish nests during search for Shackleton's lost ship off Antarctica

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : These ice shelves play a crucial global role, acting to support and restrain ice flow from the vast interior of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
59% : When the A68 iceberg, measuring 5,800 square kilometers, calved from Larsen C Ice Shelf in 2017, it opened new access for research.
56% : When ice shelves thin or collapse, this restraint is lost, leading to accelerated ice flow from the continent, which in turn contributes to global sea-level rise.
53% : The expedition The Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 had two aims: to conduct an interdisciplinary scientific program in the waters surrounding the Larsen C Ice Shelf, and to locate, survey, and image the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, which sank in 1915.
52% : In a remote part of Antarctica's western Weddell Sea, an area once hidden beneath a 200-meter-thick ice shelf, scientists have uncovered a new and unusual phenomenon: extensively maintained fish nesting grounds arranged in patterns.
52% : The scientific motivation was driven by the critical importance of Antarctica's floating ice shelves.
49% : Equipped with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) aboard the South African polar research vessel SA Agulhas II, the team faced the same extreme sea-ice conditions that had crushed the Endurance vessel more than a century earlier.
49% : The immense pressure of the thick multi-year pack ice thwarted the 2019 search effort for the Endurance.
38% : Although this expedition did not locate the wreckage, the invaluable experience gained in navigating the treacherous ice and deploying submersible technology assisted with the planning and execution of the subsequent Endurance22 expedition on the same ship, which successfully located the remarkably well-preserved wreck in March 2022 at 3,008 meters below sea level.

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