Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic

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.

Even though it has been sitting in 3km (10,000ft) of water for over a century, it looks just like it did on the November day it went down.

Its timbers, although disrupted, are still very much together, and the name - Endurance - is clearly visible on the stern.

What a wonderful blessing to have such a long friendship, especially after sailing the world and back on different routes.

Endurance, indeed. :)

Sounds like you two need to celebrate with a bottle of Shackleton.

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The ship was launched on 17 December 1912 and was initially christened Polaris after the North Star.

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After Shackleton purchased the ship, she was rechristened Endurance after the Shackleton family motto, Fortitudine vincimus ("By endurance we conquer").

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Despite her change of name, she retained a large badge in the shape of a five-pointed star on her stern, which originally symbolized her name after the pole star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_(1912_ship)

Search team Endurance22:

https://endurance22.org/endurance-is-found

The team worked from the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II...

That explains a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._A._Agulhas_II

The name “Agulhas”, Portuguese for “needles”, is said to have been given to the cape because the compass-needle was seen to point due north, that is, with no magnetic deviation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Agulhas

https://www.pealim.com/dict/3713-sgula/

Klein’s:

סְגֻלָּה f.n. 1 possession, property. 2 treasure. MH 3 virtue, quality. MH 4 remedy. [Related to Aram. סְגֻלְתָּא (= property), Akka. sugullu (= herd of cattle).] Derivatives: סֶגֶל ᴵ, סְגֻלִּי.

Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

S.A.Agulhas *II*...

Segulahs, geulas, directional indicators...

Shackle-ton changed the name from Polaris to Endurance but kept the pole (guide) star:

wiki:

After Shackleton purchased the ship, she was rechristened Endurance after the Shackleton family motto, Fortitudine vincimus (”By endurance we conquer”)

You know what’s peculiar?

I has an odd dream on 2/28 (got it documented/dated). I went over to the Messiah’s house because I needed to collect some things he was storing for me (household stuff like small furniture pieces, chairs).

He explained that he was asked by his former employer (post retirement) if he would go to Antarctica for a short assignment. A few weeks or a couple months at most. He wasn’t sure how long. Nothing unusual about the job; they just had a need for him.

These items were in storage, but for whatever reason he didn’t want me leaving them there [unattended] while he was away on the assignment.

I wondered why on earth would I have a dream involving Antarctica? I thought maybe it had to do with repairing the foundation of the earth before things could move forward.

It’s Always Something...

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Reposting the relevant portion from post 66 (March 11):

I has an odd dream on 2/28 (got it documented/dated). I went over to the Messiah's house because I needed to collect some things he was storing for me (household stuff like small furniture pieces, chairs).
He explained that he was asked by his former employer (post retirement) if he would go to Antarctica for a short assignment. A few weeks or a couple months at most. He wasn't sure how long. Nothing unusual about the job; they just had a need for him.
These items were in storage, but for whatever reason he didn't want me leaving them there [unattended] while he was away on the assignment.
I wondered why on earth would I have a dream involving Antarctica? I thought maybe it had to do with repairing the foundation of the earth before things could move forward.

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(Nothing unusual as far as his professional expertise. He was their "go to" guy for the particular need, whatever it was.)

A couple of days ago -- inspired by dialog in the Shawshank Redemption -- I was reading a few Robert Frost poems.

Today, I received an image of an Antarctica postcard. I wondered, what secrets of the universe might be buried under all of that ice? (Being a couple of miles thick.)

Ah, then I remembered the dream. Now it made sense why the Messiah had been "sent there" -- what he needed to take care of at the foundation of the earth before things could move forward. That's because this poem was fresh on my mind:

"Fire and Ice" is a popular poem by Robert Frost that discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate. Published in December 1920 in Harper's Magazine...
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Ice_(poem)

"What Andy, what's buried under there?"

You'll have to pry it up, to see:

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

Even though it has been sitting in 3km (10,000ft) of water for over a century, it looks just like it did on the November day it went down.
Its timbers, although disrupted, are still very much together, and the name - Endurance - is clearly visible on the stern.

The ship was launched on 17 December 1912[3] and was initially christened Polaris after the North Star.
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Despite her change of name, she retained a large badge in the shape of a five-pointed star on her stern, which originally symbolized her name after the pole star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_(1912_ship)

endurance: סִבּוֹלֶת

Shibboleth

The term originates from the Hebrew word shibbólet (שִׁבֹּלֶת), which means the part of a plant containing grain, such as the head of a stalk of wheat or rye;[6][7][Isaiah 27:12] or less commonly (but arguably more appositely)[a] "flood, torrent".[8][9]
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In modern English, a shibboleth can have a sociological meaning, referring to any in-group word or phrase that can distinguish members from outsiders.

Judges 12:6. Then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth [שִׁבֹּלֶת]; and he said Sibboleth [סִבֹּלֶת]; for he could not pronounce it right; Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan; and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty two thousand:

and no good thing ever dies...

John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Now say "Endurance",

Because I drew him out of the water.

"Gatherer of all the camps"

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