this ship sank more than 100 years ago and this is how its modern equivalent found the wreck I’m historian Dan snow and I was privileged to be on board aulus 2 on our mission to find endurance’s Wreck endurance was just 144 ft long aulus is three times the size endurance was built for strength with a reinforced wooden Hull designed for resilience but that wasn’t enough to stop the ship from sinking after being crushed by thick ice 100 years later the steel H aulus capable of breaking through 3 ft of ice was sent to ser search for endurance’s wreck endurance was an engineering Marvel of its day with a 350 horsepower steam engine joints intricately constructed for maximum strength and sides sheathed in green heart a wood heavier than iron but a gulus demonstrates how far polar vessels have evolved and in 2022 aulus carried on board a modern Miracle of Technology the subsea drones that scoured the seaf Flor and discovered urance breaking several World Records along the way urance is now streaming on Disney plus and who