The Kildare-born Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton becomes more famous with every passing year, particularly in America where his successful saving of the lives of every member of his doomed 1914-1916 expedition with the ice-crushed Endurance is used in top business
schools as a study in successful adaptive leadership. Thus the possibility that much of the Endurance may remain largely intact deep under the surface ice of the Weddell Sea is a source of increasing fascination, but in 2007 a search expedition failed to find her as they lost contact with their free-moving submersible.
Today a new Endurance-seeking expedition is underway from South Africa, this time with a submersible that will maintain direct line-linked contact - The New York Times has the story here