Recently, a research team working for the Schmidt Ocean Institute team was testing echo-sounding equipment to map the seabed. The sonar images (see one here) showed an unidentified feature, so they sent down a camera and towed it across the target area. The images it brought up showed the remains of a wooden wreck, the features of which - including its 187' (57m) length - closely matched historical photos of the Terra Nova and led to the identification. "The camera footage also identified the funnel of the vessel, next to the wreck," reported SOI researcher Leighton Rolley. Because the ship is severely damaged and lies at a depth of more than 1,000' (305m), the cost of a salvage operation would likely be prohibitive, so the famous ship will continue to lie where it sank, just as Scott and his men remain where they fell.
*I tell the story in my book Modern Mummies because the bodies of the men, who had frozen to death in March, were discovered in November, entombed in their tent where they remain on the Ross Ice Shelf, marked by a cairn and a cross.
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Cold in this corner of the cabinet!
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