An ambitious team called the Transglobal Car Expedition will undertake a pretty daunting task. The team will circumnavigate the globe, Magellan style. Fun fact, that's a bit of a misnomer. Magellan was killed by an arrow before completing it, and his partner Juan Sebastian Elcano was the one to actually make the whole journey.

Like Magellan all those hundreds of years ago, this Ford truck also didn't make it. This time the only casualty was a Ford F-150 modified by Arctic Trucks, which sank to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean during testing.

The heavily modified F-150 and its massive 44-inch tires sank to the bottom of the bay near the Tasmania Islands in Canada's far-northern Nunavut territory. Apparently, the sinking happened "in an area of rapidly shifting ice on a heavy current," and the group simply left the truck, continuing north. Thankfully, the truck died for a good cause. The Transglobal Car Expedition completed the world's first overland wheeled crossing from Canada's continental shelf to the high Arctic. We should also point out this is a longitudinal circumnavigation, not a latitudinal one, and a small step on the 16-man team's route to circumnavigation.

Here's what Driver Torfi Birkir Johannsson said about the incident, which occurred while trying to pass the icy Franklin Strait: "I suspected quickly that it is deep water under and we will be losing the car, my thinking went 'what do we need most before we lose it.' I evaluated if I should go back into the car to get a few clothes there, my phone, my computers, etc., but decided to jump on the roof rack and get the extra heavy clothing all four of us had stored on this car. I managed to free two straps and the four bags, my thinking was we would need this especially if the other car would also go down and jumped off to bring these bags to safer ice."

Regardless, the group's leave no trace policy mean that after testing was completed, they had to turn back for the truck. Letting an internal combustion engine truck like this degrade on the ocean floor could have a disastrous impact on the local ecosystem. Efforts for recovery began last week, and consisted of teams of divers, flotation devices, and a helicopter. Through a combination of those items, the truck was freed and is now headed back to Montreal, Canada. The team's actual circumnavigation attempt will begin in September from Argentina's southern tip.

From there, the team will cross North and South America, headed for the North Pole. The team will use the F-150s to get to Resolute Bay, Canada leaving the trucks there. After that, it's off to Greenland via ship and amphibious vehicle, across Europe and Africa, and then across Antarctica back to Argentina to complete the trip.