A South African icebreaker set off from Cape Town on Saturday in search of the world’s most elusive shipwreck: explorer Ernest Shackleton’s vessel Endurance.The 144-foot wooden ship, which sank off the coast of Antarctica in 1915, has been lost ever since in the depths of what the Irish-born British explorer described as “the worst portion of the worst sea in the world.”The Endurance22 Expedition, a project of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, aims to locate, survey and film the wreck of the iconic ship resting 3,000 meters below the surface of the Weddell Sea, Agence France-Presse reported.
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