By Andrea Hargraves 
After more than a hundred years hidden in the icy waters of Antarctica, explorer Ernest Shackleton's legendary ship Endurance, which sank in 1915, has been revealed in extraordinary 3D detail.
For the first time, we can see the ship 3,000 meters deep in the Weddell Sea, as if the murky waters have been drained.
The digital scan, made from 25,000 high-resolution images, was taken when the ship was found in 2022.
The images have now been released as part of a new documentary called 'Endurance' which will be shown in cinemas.
The team carefully analyzed the images for small details, each telling a story linking the past to the present.
In the photo below, you can see the dishes the crew used for their daily meals, left scattered around the deck.
The next day, there is a shoe that may have belonged to Frank Wilde, Shackleton's second-in-command.
Perhaps most bizarre of all is a flare gun mentioned in the diary kept by the crew.
The flare gun was fired by Frank Hurley, the expedition's photographer, when the ship that was the crew's home was lost in the ice.
“Hurley takes this lighting gun and fires it into the air with a huge explosion, as a tribute to the ship,” explains John Shears, who led the expedition that found the Endurance.
“Then he talked in his memoirs about being left on the deck. And here we are. We come back over a hundred years later, and there's the flare gun. It's unbelievable.”
A mission doomed to failure
Ernest Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish explorer who led the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which set out to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.
But the mission was doomed from the start.
The Endurance ran aground on an ice floe weeks after leaving South Georgia.
The ship drifted with the crew aboard for several months until the order was finally given to abandon ship. It ended up sinking on November 21, 1915.
Shackleton and his men were forced to travel hundreds of miles across ice, land and sea to reach safety. Miraculously, all 27 crew members survived.
His extraordinary story is recorded in his memoirs, as well as in photographs by Frank Hurley, which have now been colorized for the documentary Endurance.
The boat itself remained missing until 2022.
Its discovery made news around the world, and images of the Endurance ship showed it to be incredibly preserved in the icy waters.
The new 3D model was made using underwater robots that mapped the wreckage from all angles, taking thousands of images. The images were then stitched together to create a digital version of the ship.
While videos shot at this depth may only show parts of the Endurance ship in the dark, the 3D model reveals the entire 44-metre-long wreck, from bow to stern.
The images also record the grooves carved into the sediment as the ship slid to a halt on the sea floor.
The model shows how the ship was crushed by the ice, with the masts fallen, parts of the deck destroyed, but the hull itself remaining practically intact.
Shackleton's descendants say the Endurance will never be raised from the bottom of the sea. Its location in one of the most remote areas on the planet means that visiting the wreck again will be extremely difficult.
But Nico Vincent of Deep Ocean Search, which developed the scanning technology, in partnership with Voyis Imaging and McGill University in Canada, says the digital replica offers a new way to study the ship.
“It's absolutely amazing,” says Vincent, who was also co-leader of the expedition. “The wreck is almost intact, as if it sank yesterday.”
It is believed the 3D model could be used by scientists to study the marine life that colonized the wreck, analyze the geology of the seafloor and discover new artefacts.
“So this is a really great opportunity that we can provide for the future.”
The photographs belong to the Falkland Islands Maritime Heritage Trust, a London-based NGO that seeks to preserve the maritime history of the Falkland Islands (the British name for the Falkland Islands). The organization also funded and organized the expedition to find Shackleton's ship.
The documentary Endurance premiered at the London Film Festival on October 12.