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Rebecca Morel, Alison Francis and Kevin ChurchBBC NEWS science
One of the most famous polar ships was lifted in detail at the seafloor.
Terra Nova was moved by Captain Scott and his people in their convicted expedition to get to the South Pole more than a century ago.
The British Party lost the race to the pole and died in its return journey in 1912.
The footage shows that Terra Nova, colonized by marine life, but the key features of the wooden ship are still visible, including its wheel, winch and mast.
The crash lies 170 m down the Greenland coast. After the polar expedition with the cattle, the ship continued his service and, eventually, drowned in 1943, transferring supplies to the US databases during World War II.
Terra Nova was discovered in 2012, but the new expedition was the first opportunity to record wide crafts.
“To see these significant crashing parts, it really inspires,” said Leytan’s role, a scientific system manager in Rev Ocean.
“The wheel was sitting there perfectly intact among the garbage fodder.
“If you think about the people who stood there, maneuvering Terra Nova through the ice like Captain Scott … It was the way when the wheel of this ship could talk, it could say a strange story.”
Terra Nova was one of the best polar vessels of its time and sailed for 60 years.
The ship was 57 m long (187 feet) with a wooden body that was a meter thick in places to help it break through the sea ice.
Captain Scott’s men began Antarctica in 1910. The Terra Nova expedition planned a comprehensive scientific program – along for the purpose of becoming the first to reach the South Pole.
Scott, together with Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawren OATS and Edgar Evans, tried to create a story.
After the hike, hundreds of miles, the British Party reached the pole in January 1912, but they found that they were beaten by a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen.
The Black Flag planted by AmundSen is now demonstrated at Scott’s Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, as well as with other Terra Nova items.
“Their hearts probably plunged upon seeing this black flag against the whiteness of Antarctica,” said David Waterhous, curator of the Polar Museum in Corporal.
The broken British Party began its difficult return to its base. But they encountered unusually bad weather, and Edgar Evans died after the fall, going down from the glacier.
A few weeks later, Captain Otsa left the men’s tent. His last words were recorded in the journal Scott: “I just go outside and maybe there will be some time.” He was never seen again.
Scott, Bowers and Wilson continued and made the final camp, but the trap freezing a blizzard with lowering materials, all three were killed.
The search expedition revealed its last camp just 11 miles from the request depot, which would provide them with food and fuel.
Terra Nova played a decisive role in the news of their death.
“In January 1913, Terra Nova arrived in Cape Evans to Antarctica to pick up a coastal party, and they hoped to pick up Captain Scott and his party at the same time,” Naomi Ben, an archivist, explained.
“But when they arrived, they learned the sad news.”
The ship’s magazine records that men died of “exposition and want”.
The ship sailed to New Zealand, where the tragic end of the Terra Nova expedition was announced in the world.
New staff with Deep give another chance to tell Scott’s story, says David Waterhaus.
“This is a story that has really received the whole package – heroism, tragedy,” he said.
“And, I suppose, as the British people we like, and they were so close to being the first at the pole and forced him to return alive.”
The ship, which witnessed so much history, now has a completely different existence that lies under the waves at the other end of the planet.
This is not in good condition. While the ship center is relatively pristine, the stern has a lot of damage, and the bow is divided into two.
But it became a reef of life, says Leighton’s role.
“It is full of fish, corals grow – it has become one with the ocean.”