BBCNEWS Breakfast June 4, 2024 07:22:00
Endurance, was discovered, lying 3,000 metres down in the antarctic deep, almost perfectly preserved, frozen in time. but this remarkable find has set the expedition team off on another quest. this time at lloyd's insurers in the city of london. whenever a large ship is lost to the sea, it's recorded in pen and ink in a loss book. it's a tradition that still happens today, but it goes back to 1774. and the hope was they'd find shackleton's ship on the day she sank. we've come to where the archives are stored. there are 140 loss books going back hundreds of years. shackleton's endurance sank in...