Shackleton’s Endurance Discovered in the Icy Waters of Antarctica

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[ameribbean expat]

Ernest Shackleton’s lost ice ship, Endurance, has been discovered in the waters of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. Endurance was crushed and sunk by pack ice in 1915, during Shackleton’s failed attempt to cross the Antarctic continent, and remained lost to the depths for more than a century.

Now, the wreck has been found, filmed and surveyed by members of the Endurance22 expedition, which set out in search of the shipwreck in February 2022. After weeks of surveying the seabed, the shipwreck was located in early March 2022, 100 years after Shackleton died in 1922.

[ameribbean expat]

The sea gives one up.

[Viking2002]

Just.......wow.

[nickcarraway]

They must be hungry and cold by now.

[Eagles6]

My Dad loved this story.

It is a great one.

[skr]

he should’ve believed the whalers.

[mewzilla]

Since I was curious..

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Looks like I'll be giving this one a miss.

[stockpirate]

PING

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[JohnBovenmyer]

Amazing men, Shackleton and his Captain, Frank Worsley. Worsley’s final recorded position for her was only off 7.5 km. Pretty darn good considering overcast conditions prevented accurate sightings. Once he and Shackleton had rescued everyone he returned to England and joined the Navy. Where he rammed and sunk a U-boat. Done with the Kaiser he and Shackleton joined the fight against Bolshevicks in northern Russia and was again decorated. Years later he was aiding Swedish volunteers to Finland during the winter war. Then back against Germany again. Serving with the Red Cross in France then lying about his (too old) age he joined the merchant marine. Until the lie was caught and he was finally retired. Lung cancer got him soon thereafter. Their stories show hope remains even when all seems impossible. Much needed reminders in these bleak days.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks stockpirate and ApplegateRanch for the other two topics' pings.

[Monkey Face]

Totally amazing!! I watched a reenactment done on the anniversary of the sailing to South Georgia not too long ago. It was a DVD named “Shackleton,” but with today’s maritime regulations in force.

It was a riveting film! I then bought a book, but I’m sure that won’t be the end of my fascination with the man and his voyage by lifeboat. More books, more DVDs...

Infact, this article now has me all fired up again! Thanks, SC. You’ve just contributed to an addict. ;o]

[SunkenCiv]

• Ernest Shackleton's Ship Endurance, Lost in 1915, Is Found in Antarctica [03/09/2022]
• Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic [03/09/2022]
• Endurance: Search for Shackleton's lost ship begins [02/10/2019]
• Across Antarctica in Ernest Shackleton's tyre tracks [04/21/2017]
• Prince William's friend Henry Worsley dies trying to recreate Shackleton's Antarctic crossing [01/25/2016]
• Polar Explorer vs. Reality TV Crew: Tim Jarvis in the Footsteps of Shackleton [01/15/2014]

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• Vintage PHOTO: "Pupsicle" ... A World-Weary Puppy In Antarctica, Circa 1912 [02/22/2015]
• 100-Year-Old Box of Negatives Discovered by Conservators in Antarctica [01/01/2014]
• 100-Year-Old Box of Negatives Discovered by Conservators in Antarctica [12/27/2013]

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• Now That's What I Call On The Rocks! 107-Y/O Crates Of Whisky Found Frozen In Antarctica [11/27/2015]
• Explorer's rare Scotch returned to Antarctic stash [01/19/2013]
• How Scottish Scientists Re-Created a Hundred-Year-Old Whisky (Shackleton's Antartica Scotch) [01/22/2012]
• New Zealand museum thaws 100-year-old whisky [07/24/2010]
• World's oldest malt whisky ($15,000 a bottle) goes on sale [03/12/2010]
• Scotch Whisky Meant To Warm Antarctic Explorers Retrieved After Century Locked In Ice [02/06/2010]
• Shackleton's whisky recovered [02/05/2010]
• Explorers' century-old whisky found in Antarctic [02/05/2010]
• Team drills for century-old Scotch whiskey in Antarctica [11/16/2009]
• Preserved in ice for 100 years, the whisky Shackleton used to keep out the cold. [11/04/2009]
• Whisky on (Antarctic) ice: Ernest Shackleton...left a stash at the bottom of the world. [10/26/2009]

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• Everything I Need to Know About Sarah Palin, I Learned From Sir Ernest Shackleton [02/06/2010]
• Everything I Need To Know About Sarah Palin... [10/24/2009

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure!

[Monkey Face]

Of course you’d say that... ;o]

[Winniesboy]

Worsley may have been even closer. I read recently that somebody’s discovered that the (lunar?) navigation tables Worsley was using had some inaccuracies, which would have put him out by single-figure km. I don’t know whether the position actually found corresponds with this. (Worsley’s greatest achievement, of course, was navigating the open boat across the Southern Ocean to South Georgia).

[JohnBovenmyer]

The Endurance was on Shackleton's third trip to the Antarctic. If all the follow on rescue voyages to recover men from Elephant Island and the Ross sea side of his expedition are considered as one trip, than he made four trips, dying within hours of seeing South Georgia again on the fourth. Yet for all the drama of the third the most impressive thing he did was on his second trip. On his first trip he'd accompanied Scott on the world's first overland attempt on the South Pole. He returned leading his own expedition for the second and had his goal ready for the taking. He'd made it past the hard part, the climb up to the polar plateau. The weather was good, the going left was easy and the goal was a mere hundred miles away. And he turned back! Because he calculated lack of time and supplies would likely kill them on the way back. Darn few humans in history, willing to start the trip, could have made that decision. Scott couldn't and died for it. Shackleton was as obsessed with that goal as any man in history, but had the unique character to overcome it

Having in the interim been beaten to the pole goal, his third trip intended the only possible goal to top it: crossing the continent overland via the pole. That goal was finally achieved in 1958, using then modern machinery to fulfill the outline of Shackleton's plan. Sir Vivian Fuchs taking on the Shackleton role and Sir Edmund Hillary the role of Shackleton's Aurora expedition laying down stores for the Ross sea final leg. BTW any Shackleton fan, who hasn't already, should track down and read the story of the Aurora expedition. It wasn't quite as dramatic as the Weddel Sea side, but was still impressively difficult and in spite of best efforts did have some deaths.

[Monkey Face]

Thank you for those tidbits!

Now, of course, I’ll have to do more reading.... Good thing I like books!

‘Face

;o]

[waterhill]

It’s on YouTube. Remarkable condition.