1 of 2 | The research vessel Atlantis will leave the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and travel first to the wreck of Quest, Photo by Ken Kostel, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
July 2 (UPI) -- Researchers will launch an expedition Thursday to survey two shipwrecks linked to polar explorers Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott.
CBC News, which will have reporters aboard the research vessel Atlantis, said the 21-day expedition will leave the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and travel first to the wreck of Quest, Shackleton's ship, at its resting place about 1,300 feet under the Labrador Sea.
Following that, the expedition will travel to the wreck of Terra Nova, Scott's ship, farther to the north off the south coast of Greenland. It's about 550 feet under the surface.
"It's a once-in-a-generation thing," said David Mearns, a scientist and expedition co-chief. "You don't get a chance to do this very often."
