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Exploration

Expedition leaders who discovered Endurance and Quest enthrall crowd at Festival of Shackleton

RCGS find of Quest featured at major Shackleton gathering in Dundee, Scotland

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History

The harsh realities of sealing life at “the Front”

When Quest sank, she had 5,200 seal pelts in the hold. A look at the intersecting worlds of polar exploration and sealing.

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People & Culture

Featured Fellow: David Mearns

The shipwreck hunter discusses his love of marine science, the search for Quest and becoming a Fellow of the RCGS

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Exploration

How the Quest was found

Episode 86

World-renowned shipwreck hunter David Mearns and lead researcher for the RCGS Shackleton-Quest Expedition Antoine Normandin take us behind the scenes of the search for Quest

53 minutes

Exploration

Finding Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last ship with John Geiger

Episode 85

The expedition leader and CEO of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society recounts the historic discovery of Quest, found hundreds of metres below the surface off the coast of the Labrador Sea

31 minutes

shipwreck

Wreck of Quest, famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last ship, found in Labrador Sea

All Too Clear: Beneath the surface of the upcoming feature film

Locating and diving on the world’s deepest shipwreck

Exclusive photos: A first detailed look at the wreck of Canadian schooner Queen of the Lakes