In February 2013 Jarvis and five others successfully recreated Sir Ernest Shackleton's 'epic' crossing of the Southern Ocean in the "Alexandra Shackleton", a replica of Shackleton's lifeboat the "James Caird". Using the same materials, clothing, food and a Thomas Mercer chronometer as in the original voyage, Jarvis and the team sailed their replica "James Caird" from Elephant Island, in the Southern Ocean, to South Georgia, just as Shackleton did in 1916. The construction of the replica "James Caird" was started in June 2008 and was finished in 2010, and was officially launched on 18 March 2012 in Dorset, England.