Sabertooth Hunts Shackleton’s Endurance

The Sabertooth is the world’s only hovering and roaming multi-role vehicle.

Two Saab Sabertooth robots will go under the Antarctic ice in the hunt for the wreck of the Endurance, sunk during Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition in 1915.

Lowered by helicopter, the Sabertooths will be sent through a prepared hole cut in the ice to embark on a 160km search mission to find, survey and film the wreck, believed to be 3000m (nearly two miles) underwater, its precise location unknown.

2 EnduranceEndurance, crushed by ice before sinking.

Both Sabertooths are currently aboard an icebreaker with the research teams, heading for Antarctica.

The multi-role, 3000m rated, Saab Sabertooth is the world’s only roaming and hovering robot that can operate in both fully autonomous and tethered modes, enabling fully flexible dual operations from a single platform fitted with cameras, sonars and tooling.

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