Endurance Found

[MaxHeadroom]

Scientists have found and filmed one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks 107 years after it sank.


The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found at the weekend at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. 



The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing Shackleton and his men to make an astonishing escape on foot and in small boats. 



Video of the remains show Endurance to be in remarkable condition.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60662541

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

“For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”

 

[alphafb552]

Fabulous discovery!

Looking forward to learning more about the wreck and what it can tell us about Shackleton's expedition.

 

[dacapo]

I went to Music College with E. Shackleton's great great Grandson Sam....

the video is pretty cool.  Well Preserved in that cold water

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

How did Percy end up on board?

If you sneak a ride on Shackleton's boat, he tries to feed you to killer whales, then gives you a big hug.

 

[robtoujours]

Better preserved than much of the zombie fleet..

 

[BGeff]

That's AWESOME!

 

[Ease the sheet.]

Heard the reason for such great preservation is that there's no wood eating organisms in Antarctica.

Something to do with Antarctica having no wood....

 

[Boathavn]

The British Film Institutes restored "South", the contemporary film story of Shackleton's expedition is just out on Bluray.
 
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=29577
 
More clips
 

 

[Pipe Dream]

Wow, just wow!

 

[Parma]

That's almost 10,000 feet down! Wow.

 

[Wess]

Damn!!

 

[SloopJonB]

On the 100th anniversary of his death to boot.

Pretty cool.

 

[ropetrick]

What an amazing find, helped by the excellent celestial navigation by Captain Frank Worsley in 1915.

I took this photo on Feb 19th 2022 on South Georgia.

We also saw the cove on Elephant Island where the crew waited for rescue.

We did not get into the pack ice and see the icebreaker.

 

[CriticalPath]

Fabulous discovery and incredible images for sure, and how's about CNN's reporting:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ernest-shackleton-endurance-shipwreck-found-scn/index.html

(CNN) — More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in good condition.
 
The ship, which sank in 1915, is 3,008 meters (1.9 miles or 9,842 feet) deep in the Weddell Sea, a pocket in the Southern Ocean along the northern coast of Antarctica, south of the Falkland Islands.
 
The discovery was a collaboration between the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and History Hit, the content platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow.
 
"This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation," Mensun Bound, the mission's director of exploration, said in a statement.
 
He added: "This is a milestone in polar history."
 
 
Isn't all of Antartica's shoreline the "northern coast"?  Inquiring minds want to know...
 
Cheers!
 

 

[Couta]

Any Shackleton fan or anyone with an interest in the story really needs to read up on the Endurance skipper Frank Worsley. It'll give you another perspective on ES and the incredible expedition. In an epic adventure of Heroics,  Worsley was/is the understated hero...the only man on the expedition with real Navigation skills, the only man with small boat skills...think about that for a second!! Now re-think the story....do yourself a favour. It's a ripping yarn!

 

[pbd]

Any Shackleton fan or anyone with an interest in the story really needs to read up on the Endurance skipper Frank Worsley. It'll give you another perspective on ES and the incredible expedition. In an epic adventure of Heroics,  Worsley was/is the understated hero...the only man on the expedition with real Navigation skills, the only man with small boat skills...think about that for a second!! Now re-think the story....do yourself a favour. It's a ripping yarn!

I've recently made the decision to get a lot smarter on the expedition.  Any Anarchists have recommendations on what book(s) I should read to enlighten me on this subject?

 

[ropetrick]

Shackleton's Forgotten Men by Lennard Bickel 2001

Tells the tragic story of the men tasked with putting out supply caches for the second half of the across continent journey. It did not go well.

 

[The Q]

The James Caird which is the 20ft ish boat they sailed to south Georgia, is preserved in Dulwich college which is a school in London. https://www.dulwich.org.uk/about/history/the-james-caird