Search begins for Ernest Shackleton's lost shipwreck

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The 'Endurance' under full sail during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Ernest Shackleton

A South African icebreaker departed this morning in search of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, which sank off the coast of Antarctica in 1915 after being slowly crushed by pack ice.

"The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to confirm that the Endurance 22 Expedition, which is aiming to locate, survey and film the wreck of Endurance,... has departed on schedule from Cape Town, headed for the Weddell Sea in Antarctica," the expedition's organisers announced.

As part of the renowned Irish-born polar explorer's Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition between 1914 and 1917, Endurance was meant to make the first land crossing of Antarctica, but it fell victim to the merciless Weddell Sea.

Just east of the Larsen ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula, it became ensnared in sea-ice for over 10 months before being crushed and sinking some 3,000 metres below the surface.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2022/0204/1277846-shackleton-endurance/

[flying_wahini]

1. So interesting.

I hope they find it. I wonder if the global warming issues have lessened its dangerous area factor?

[Walleye]

2. I remember having a National Geographic with the pictures. I think it was Joseph Conrad wrote it?

Fascinating.I was always interested in those photographs, being a photographer all my life

[Budi]

3. K & R An intriguing story to follow. Spend some time in the RTE site!

Will definately have to follow the search.
Thanks for posting this story.

SNIP
The voyage is something of a legend, due to the miraculous escape Shackleton and his crew made on foot and in boats.

The crew managed to escape by camping on the sea ice until it ruptured.

They then launched life boats to Elephant Island and then South Georgia Island, a British overseas territory that lies around 1,400km east of the Falkland Islands."
(they escaped alive!?)

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Also interesting is the link you provided to RTE News
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This is pretty cool. From their Archives:
https://twitter.com/RTEArchives

Link to tweet

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4. I stopped watching the movie about this when I found out

That they ate their dogs.

A dire situation, but too much for me to handle.

[USALiberal]

5. I'm sure they weren't happy about it either. What should they have done?? Nt

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7. I'm not judging

People don't know what they would do if they were in a desperate situation.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Shackleton is probably the greatest sailor ever. The trip from Elephant Island to South Georgia

was beyond heroic.

[Sneederbunk]

8. I believe Frank Worsley had something to do with that.

[EX500rider]

11. Maybe tied with Capt Bligh...

....after being set adrift in Bounty's launch by the mutineers, Bligh and his loyal men all reached Timor alive, after a journey of 3,618 nautical miles (6,700 km; 4,160 mi).

[intelpug]

13. Greatest sailor ever

I must respectfully disagree. Shackleton , I believe, was more explorer than sailor, For pure amazing nautical competence I feel the laurels must go to Captain William Bly of the HMS Bounty mutiny. After being set adrift in a single boat with some loyal crewmen he managed without any charts to bring 17 of 18 men to safety with only one life lost over 4000 miles of the southern Pacific in a 23 foot long boat. Now Shackleton on the other hand, has been in my opinion, Some what held in obscurity for what he really was. In our time if one browses the bookstores or the net, there are countless references of leadership to be had, books abound on how to be a leader, leaders in business, leaders in society, habits of great military leaders,ect, ect. In my mind, someone who wishes to study real, uncontested leadership at its highest pinnacle, needs only one book and in that book they will discover that the principles of real leadership can all be defined in one name,,,And that name is Shackleton

[Quixote1818]

14. Shackleton is the one who got them in the mess by not listening to the Capitan and others

Captain Frank Worsley is the real hero as this video points out:

[theophilus]

9. Some really neat pix on this subject....below

https://www.calacademy.org/blogs/the-long-view/shackletons-endurance-in-color-1915

[Notek]

10. Interesting,

I read the book some years ago. It's a good read, I didn't know there was a movie about it.

[Jacson6]

12. This sounds like a waste of money & time.

It is an old broken up wooden ship.