An age-old mystery will be revealed this morning when members of a Royal Canadian Geographical Society expedition team outline their efforts in locating the wreck of the historic ship used by famed polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton off the coast of Newfoundland.
Shackleton was on his way to map the islands of Antarctica in 1922, but the trip was cut short when Shackleton died of a heart attack on board the Quest while it was anchored off the coast of South Georgia.
The ship was then acquired by a Norwegian company and used in a number of expeditions in the 1930s and was even used by the Royal Canadian Navy in WWII for Arctic rescue.
In 1962 the Quest was damaged in the ice off Newfoundland and sank to the bottom.
The expedition team, made up of researchers from Canada, the UK, the US and Norway, will share their findings at a news conference this morning at 10:30 at the Marine Institute. VOCM News will be there.
