Friday, April 1, 2011

Antarctica in Color, 1915


Early in 1915, their ship ‘Endurance’ became inexorably trapped in the Antarctic ice. Hurley managed to salvage the photographic plates by diving into mushy ice-water inside the sinking ship in October 1915.

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Source: freshpics