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Canadian crew is first to lay eyes on wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s last ship, Quest

A small team of explorers led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society have become the first people to lay eyes on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last ship since it sank in the Labrador Sea in 1962. John Geiger, the society’s chief executive officer, travelled with private astronaut Mark Pathy on Tuesday to the wreck of Quest in the DSV Alvin, the first submersible to take people to the Titanic shipwreck. Piloted by Bruce Strickrott with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Alvin crew were able to see the ship’s deck, which is where Shackleton died of a heart attack in a…

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