Months after Phil McCann was sent to a petrol station to report on the petrol crisis, Dan Snow has been sent to Antarctica.

BBC reporter Phil McCann’s coverage of the crisis went viral because his name sounded like ‘fill my can’.

News that Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance has been found 107 years after it sank in Antarctica’s waters has seen historian Dan Snow sent to the icy continent by Sky News.

A conscious choice by the broadcaster? Maybe.

The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said Endurance was found at a depth of 3,008 metres and approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by the ship’s captain Frank Worsley.

Dan Snow said on Twitter: “Endurance has been found. Discovered at 3,000 metres on 5 March 2022, 100 years to the day since Shackleton was buried.

“After weeks of searching Endurance was found within the search box conceived by Mensun Bound, only just over four miles south of the location at which its captain Frank Worsley calculated it had sunk. The entire team aboard #Endurance22 are happy and a little exhausted!

“Nothing was touched on the wreck. Nothing retrieved. It was surveyed using the latest tools and its position confirmed. It is protected by the Antarctic Treaty. Nor did we wish to tamper with it.”

He said the wreck is “coherent” and in an “astonishing state of preservation”.

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