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38 st / March 2016 www.sea-technology.com Greenland, the Terra Nova sent an SOS reporting damage. All personnel aboard were rescued; however, the ship was set alight and sunk by gunfre. I was born and brought up in Cardiff in south Wales, so I always felt a special affnity with the Terra Nova, which sailed off Cardiff's shore for Scott's fnal expedition. As a child who loved shipwreck stories, I grew up visiting Terra Nova-related memorials, and I always wondered what happened to the ship that Captain Scott and his team had used. I spent years carrying out research on the Terra Nova that helped eventually identify her fnal resting place off southern Greenland. In 2012, just over 100 years after the death of Scott and his colleagues, a team of researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) and I were able to locate the Terra Nova's fnal resting place, using the most up-to-date tech- nology available. Challenges In January 2012, I joined SOI as the lead marine techni- cian on the Falkor, which was in the process of being con- W hile many a young boy dreams of adventures on the high seas, fnding sunken treasure and exploring the world's oceans, very few of them of go on to live their fantasies. I was one such dreamer. Fascinated with stories of ship- wrecks, underwater exploration and the technology that was being used to make this possible, I grew up obsessed with the idea of locating the Terra Nova, a whaler and polar expedition ship best known for carrying the ill-fated British Antarctic expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott at the start of the last century. The ship set off from Cardiff Docks on June 15, 1910 under the command of Scott in his bid to lead the frst team to reach the South Pole. They arrived at the South Pole in January 1912, but, tragically, Scott and four of his companions perished on their return to the ship after dis- covering that they had been beaten in their efforts by an expedition led by Roald Amundsen. The Terra Nova returned from the Antarctic in 1913 and was bought by her former owners, resuming her career as a sealing vessel and later a coal transporter. In September 1943, during a charter to carry supplies to base stations in Terra Nova Rediscovered In Greenland Waters Antarctic Explorer Scott's Shipwreck Found During Routine Sonar Testing By Leighton Rolley RV Falkor conducting the Terra Nova multibeam survey.