Shackleton's Ship Endurance Found

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.

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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.

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.

"Without any exaggeration this is the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen - by far," said marine archaeologist Mensun Bound, who is on the discovery expedition and has now fulfilled a dream ambition in his near 50-year career.

"It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation," he told BBC News.

The Endurance was trapped in sea-ice for months before sinking to the deep in 1915
The project to find the lost ship was mounted by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT), using a South African icebreaker, Agulhas II, and equipped with remotely operated submersibles.

The mission's leader, the veteran polar geographer Dr John Shears, described the moment cameras landed on the ship's name as "jaw-dropping".

"The discovery of the wreck is an incredible achievement," he added.

"We have successfully completed the world's most difficult shipwreck search, battling constantly shifting sea-ice, blizzards, and temperatures dropping down to -18C. We have achieved what many people said was impossible."

For over two weeks, the subs had combed a predefined search area, investigating various interesting targets, before finally uncovering the wreck site on Saturday - the 100th anniversary of Shackleton's funeral. The days since the discovery have been spent making a detailed photographic record of the timbers and surrounding debris field.

The wreck itself is a designated monument under the international Antarctic Treaty and must not be disturbed in any way. No physical artefacts have therefore been brought to the surface.

More with pictures and maps here: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60662541

The link is a must click with two interesting videos. What amazing condition she is in.

Tom Crean was part of that remarkable escape as well as Scott's feted expedition. His biography a gem right up with Worst Journey by Cherry Apsley Gerard.

Tom really a man for all seasons
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The Kerryman opened the South Pole Inn, what else?

Tom Crean (explorer) - Wikipedia

Hs feats are straight from Boys' own paper studd.

• Foley, Tim (2020). Crean: The Extraordinary Life of an Irish Hero. Keel Foley Publishing (self published). ISBN 978-1999918996.
• Lansing, Alfred (2014) [1959]. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 9780465058785.
• Smith, Michael (2010). Great Endeavour – Ireland's Antarctic Explorers. T

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The link is a must click with two interesting videos. What amazing condition she is in.

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Indeed, the ice cold water and lack of sediment has left it spotless. Seems they are going to leave it where it it untouched.

^ The whole story is incredible. I went down to South Georgia twice and visited Shackleton's grave, on the Journey down as an exercise to keep us occupied in the evenings we researched and gave presentation on the expedition and aftermath.

The early Arctic and Antarctic explorers were different gravy :)

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Pretty much sums it up.

And a little nuts too

If Heineken had invented Polar Explorers

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Amazing detail preserved in the frigid waters

Maybe this boxhead will have a crack at HMS Endurance next

From keel to deck - part 01 of building the HMS TERROR from Occre - YouTube

Furniture and masts - part 02 of building the HMS TERROR from Occre - YouTube

Rigging, sails and sea - part 03 of building the HMS TERROR from Occre - YouTube

HMS Terror (as featured on TV) was found just 6 years ago in the equally cold Northwest passage

Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt | Arctic | The Guardian

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Have you? Too much info

Anyway I've read most ever written on Antarctica and even applied to work ona Whaler in teh 70s when such was still considered and honorable occupation. The Norwegain Isles were teh nearest I got.

Great links here for armchair explorers get some hoosh and pemican and glass of Shackleton Malt

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12 Must-Read Books About Antarctica | Wayfairer Travel

A taster


Think of Antarctica and you think of desolate, empty landscapes and unforgiving, icy desert. However, the most remote and harshest of environments also make for the most difficult challenges and therefore the best stories, especially those of daring polar exploration and unbelievable tales of survival.
Here, we share 12 of our favourite books about Antarctica, which best provide context for those looking to learn more about this intrepid and fascinating destination.
From autobiographical accounts written by Antarctica's pioneering explorers, to detailed wildlife guides, to an amusing spin on Antarctica's "foodie scene," this list of Antarctica books is sure to inspire you to take the polar plunge yourself and get you ready for an Antarctic cruise adventure:

Endurance captain Frank Worsley, Shackleton's gifted navigator, knew how to stay the course


Daniella McCahey, Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University - Yesterday 3:28 PM

When the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was found nearly 10,000 feet below the surface of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea in March 2022, it was located just 4 miles from its last known position, as recorded by the Endurance’s captain and navigator, Frank Worsley, in November 1915.
That’s an astonishing degree of accuracy for a position determined with mechanical tools, book-length tables of reference numbers, and pen and paper.
The expedition looking for the ship had been searching an undersea area of 150 square miles – a circle 14 miles across. Nobody knew how precise Worsley’s position calculation had been, or how far the ship might have traveled while sinking.
But as a historian of Antarctic exploration, I was not surprised to find out how accurate Worsley was, and I imagine those searching for the wreck weren’t either.


Navigation was key

The Endurance had left England in August 1914, with the Irishman Shackleton hoping to become the first to cross the Antarctic continent from one side to th


But they never even landed on Antarctica. The ship got stuck in sea ice in the Weddell Sea in January 1915, forcing the men off the ship into tents pitched on the frozen ocean nearby. The force of the ice slowly crushed the Endurance, sinking it 10 months later, and kicking off what would become an incredible – and almost unbelievable – saga of survival and navigation by Shackleton and his crew.
Shackleton’s own leadership has become the stuff of legend, as has his commitment to ensuring that not a man was lost from the group under his command – though three members of the expedition’s 10-man group in the Ross Sea did perish.
Lesser known is the importance of the navigational skills of the 42-year-old Worsley, a New Zealander who had spent decades in the British Merchant Navy and the Royal Navy Reserve. Without him, the story of Shackleton’s survival would likely have been very different.

Marking time

Navigation requires determining a ship’s location in latitude and longitude. Latitude is easy to find from the angle of the Sun above the horizon at noon.
Longitude required comparing the local noon – the moment when the Sun was at its highest point – with the actual time at another location where the longitude was already known. The key was making sure the time measurement for that other location was accurate.
Making these astronomical observations and doing the resulting calculations was difficult enough on land. On the ocean, with few fixed land points visible, amid foul weather, it was nearly impossible.
So navigation largely depended on “dead reckoning.” This was the process of calculating a vessel’s position using a previously determined position and incorporating estimates of how fast and which way the ship was moving. Worsley called it “the seaman’s calculation of courses and distance.”

Aiming for land

When the Endurance was crushed, the crew had to get themselves to safety, or die on an ice floe adrift somewhere in the Southern Ocean. In April 1916, six months after the Endurance sank, the sea ice on which they had camped began to break up. The 28 men and their remaining gear and supplies loaded into three lifeboats – the James Caird, Dudley Docker and Stancomb Wills – each named for major donors to the expedition.
Worsley was in charge of getting them to land. As the journey began, Shackleton “saw Worsley, as navigating officer, balancing himself on the gunwale of the Dudley Docker with his arm around the mast, ready to snap the sun. He got his observation and we waited eagerly while he worked out the sight.”
To do that, he compared his measurement with the time on his chronometer and written tables of calculations.

A last hope of survival

Once they managed to arrive on a little rocky strip called Elephant Island, off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, they still faced starvation. Shackleton believed that the only hope of survival lay in fetching help from elsewhere.
Worsley was ready. Before the Endurance was crushed, he had “worked out the courses and distances from the South Orkneys to South Georgia, the Falklands and Cape Horn, respectively, and from Elephant Island to the same places,” he recalled in his memoir.
The men used parts of the other lifeboats to reinforce the James Caird for a long sea journey. Every day, Worsley “watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success of the journey would depend.”
On April 24, 1916, Worsley got “The first sunny day with a clear enough horizon to get a sight for rating my chronometer.” That same day, he, Shackleton and four other men set off under sail in the 22.5-foot James Caird, carrying Worsley’s chronometer, navigational books and two sextants, used for fixing the position of the Sun and stars.

The boat journey

These men, in this tiny boat, were going from one pinpoint of rock in the Southern Ocean to another, facing high winds, massive currents and choppy waters that could push them wildly astray or even sink them. The success of this voyage depended on Worsley’s absolute accuracy, based on observations and estimations he made in the worst possible environmental conditions, while sleep-deprived and frostbitten.
[Over 150,000 readers rely on The Conversation’s newsletters to understand the world. Sign up today.]
They spent 16 days of “supreme strife amid heaving waters,” as the boat sailed through some of the most dangerous sea conditions in the world, experiencing “mountainous” swells, rain, snow, sleet and hail. During that time, Worsley was able to get just four solid fixes on the boat’s position. The rest was “a merry jest of guesswork” to determine where the wind and waves had taken them, and adjusting the steering accordingly.
The stakes were enormous – if he missed South Georgia, the next land was South Africa, 3,000 miles farther across more open ocean.

As Worsley wrote later:

“Navigation is an art, but words fail to give my efforts a correct name. … Once, perhaps twice, a week the sun smiled a sudden wintry flicker, through storm-torn cloud. If ready for it, and smart, I caught it. The procedure was: I peered out from our burrow – precious sextant cuddled under my chest to prevent seas from falling on it. Sir Ernest stood by under the canvas with chronometer, pencil, and book. I shouted ‘Stand by,’ and knelt on the thwart – two men holding me up on either side. I brought the sun down to where the horizon ought to be and as the boat leaped frantically upward on the crest of a wave, snapped a good guess at the altitude and yelled ‘Stop.’ Sir Ernest took the time and I worked out the result. Then the fun started! Our fingers were so cold that he had to interpret his wobbly figures – my own so illegible that I had to recognize them by feats of memory.”

On May 8, they saw floating seaweed and birds, and then spotted land. But they had arrived at South Georgia amid a hurricane, and for two days had to fight being driven by wind onto an island they had spent weeks desperately trying to reach.
Finally, they came ashore. Three of the six men, including Worsley, hiked across unmapped mountains and glaciers to reach a small settlement. Worsley joined a rescue boat back to get the other three. Shackleton later arranged a ship to collect the rest of the men from Elephant Island, all of whom had survived their own unimaginable hardships.
But the key to all of it, and indeed the recent discovery of the Endurance’s wreck, was how Worsley had fought desperate conditions and still repeatedly managed to figure out where they were, where they were going and how to get there.

This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.

Read more:

• 200 years of exploring Antarctica – the world’s coldest, most forbidding and most peaceful continent
• 200 years ago, people discovered Antarctica – and promptly began profiting by slaughtering some of its animals to near extinction

Daniella McCahey does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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The link is a must click with two interesting videos. What amazing condition she is in.

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It is indeed, but I am puzzled as to why the mostly wooden ship stayed intact.

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Indeed, the ice cold water and lack of sediment has left it spotless. Seems they are going to leave it where it it untouched.

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Surely the salt water would have eroded (at least parts of) it? Isn't salt corrosive?

(By the way, I failed science by some stretch, so I'm probably hopelessly wrong)

Lack of oxygen Hal

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They say a picture tells 1000 stories, but this one is probably quite a few more.

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Lack of oxygen Hal

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Thanks Nammers.

There's a reason why my strengths have always been in the humanities. :)

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As an Artic farer myself, I assure you that the cold will do that.

Been there yourself, or was the Inuit maiden enough of an adventure for you ?

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Lack of oxygen Hal

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Hal knows all about that from birth.

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As an Artic farer myself, I assure you that the cold will do that.

Been there yourself, or was the Inuit maiden enough of an adventure for you ?

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Owed ear :tieme:


As a non native spruiker I'll not go full squirrel, but

You need to improve you truckin' artic:deadhorsebig:

Artic definition and meaning - English - Collins Dictionary

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Perhaps with improved articulation Reg Dingle may give you a tug?:smileylaughing:

Farer is obvious even to my tangled Danish but alas like artic has no PLAICE nor CHIPS unless a seafarer , fare thee well, or of course it's most use in in the word Farewell.

I realize living in the world's happiest nation devoid of Scandihooligans, in fact moot if part of Scumdy Navy err....since the loss of Skane to the skaol bandits of Turnipland.

I recognize your plight, that of so many in the third world, they suspect their academic deficit, but are clueless how to improve their lot. Many of my my alumni used to cry themselves to sleep nightly a the Hornpub, these sad wankers, have tossed their hanky pankies have now after only 5 classes become Kunming Linguists.

Running a whelk stall you may have little time to attend night massage school, so I delighted to be able to offer FREE , nada, and for nothing, via PM Ribe Johnny's Inuit intuitive remedial Engrish fur seamen and backward Danes (Senad), please bring pencil, paper and lube.:cmn:

Learn there is a vas deferens between a bloater ( Una Luigi ) ANNA red herring BlackSpinn etc:bananaman:
If you preferred simplified Engliash we may also do American but I won't fawcet.

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For only a few dullards more you may soon be able to pars a sentence, comprehend eragtivity and send potty mouthed insults like a rear gunner.:rofl:

If you know any "hot " twins we may be able to do a group session?

Rush this offer expires Tuesday or when I suck em to Cyphalis whichever comes first :rolleyes:

If you have nightmares of a big red Juggernaut ,an out of controlled Artic, It's just Oily ay the Wheel.


Artic definition: a large vehicle (esp a lorry ) made in two separate sections, a tractor and a trailer

A short trailer for a hooror movie is a Lillehammer
A vomiting Troll Spitsbergen
Inuit foreplay OOOOslo
Home of erect Angles JUTland

Fun lessons for O'Dense the Menace

Curby list Hente mine fry after
Kære bilist henter mig en fredag aften

It does look remarkably intact. It should prove to be a treasure trove of information and time capsule.
It should be interesting to see how it is explored and possibly recovered.

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An Artic farer? Which famous expiations have you been on then? What discoveries and achievements are clocked against your name?

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An Artic farer? Which famous expiations have you been on then? What discoveries and achievements are clocked against your name?

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I went to the Arctic in search of the frozen veggies.

But they had been discovered already

And:

Wasn't talking to you, Wilson

1. Corintian 14-34

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I went to the Arctic in search of the frozen veggies.

But they had been discovered already

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Wasn't talking to you, Wilson

1. Corintian 14-34

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Yeah, so more :bsflag:

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It should be interesting to see how it is explored and possibly recovered.

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BB, its not going to be recovered, it will be left in tact as a memorial and to me that is fitting. I just hope no idiots try to despoil the wreck.

Given its depth and location I think it’s pretty safe

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Given its depth and location I think it’s pretty safe

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From divers, not from submersibles.

I went to the Arctis on a defense mission :)

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What have you done for world peace, apart from exiling yourself to a polluted highrise balcony ?


:bryce:

So a wandering around doing a few defence exercises makes you an Arctic farer now does it?


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Walter Mitty.

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Yes; it's hilarious really

But lots of clean air

How's your balcony doing ?

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Not recommendable in -53 celcius, laddy

Walter

Cough

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Here's the proof:

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That should settle it

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Me just retuned from Arctis
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Sitting by the warm radiator with my Laptop(just read another childish message from Wilson)

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My grave :(

Reading the book Endurance years ago, I remember their reindeer sleeping bags started to rot. Every aspect of that journey to safety was a challenge. When they were on the beach, the Leopard Seals went after them. Going to have to read the book again.

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Davis Strait should trump Malacca bent but TD is a flexible feat I think you and Willy are lost twins a perfect example of how the psyche responds to hot or cold.
That should settle it
Takuss'

For the curious my experience based alas on only one hot encounter upon a Danish ship Greenlandic woman is steamy , and seldom stops for a slurp of somtam when changing ends at half time.

I have a pen friend in Hottowa but she's more of a comedian.:bananaman: