archaeology HMS Endurance .. Ernest Shackleton's Ship Found

[colin traveller]

At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found

Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915.

www.nytimes.com

Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic

What was one of the world's greatest undiscovered shipwrecks is identified on the Antarctic seafloor.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Flagg]

That’s really cool.

 

[Gaz]

As his contemporary Raymond Priestley put it when speaking of the three most notable explorers of the time: “Scott for scientific method, Amundsen for speed and efficiency, but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”

Irish Examiner View: Finding Endurance was reminder of great explorer

The ship had not been seen since it was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.

www.irishexaminer.com

 

[Picanha]

A very nice wreck, looks as if only sunk recently.

 

[Euroamerican]

Creeps me out! And those guys went through such a struggle after that... The icy hell of Elephant Island.....

 

[Royal]

Not been to Elephant Island but I have been to South Georgia - the thought of crossing it having first sailed/rowed the southern ocean in winter gives me the screaming heebie jeebies and I've been a mountaineer all my adult life.

 

[Flagg]

Not been to Elephant Island but I have been to South Georgia - the thought of crossing it having first sailed/rowed the southern ocean in winter gives me the screaming heebie jeebies and I've been a mountaineer all my adult life.

The name Endurance itself is rather serendipitous.

The word resilience gets thrown around nearly as much as agility, adaptability, and innovation.

Mostly parroted incessantly by people who understand none of them.

To me, endurance is a word that blows way past mere resilience.

I spent a lot of time learning about human physiology in extreme environments.

Sirius Patrol(Danish dogsled teams in Greenland) burn up to 10,000 calories a day on patrol, and the have the advantage of contemporary equipment and well developed TTPs improved over decades.

I struggle to see how they achieved such a feat, call sign complete….minus the ship’s cat.

 

[uktabber]

That's bloody awesome.....those lads had a tough go of it!! God bless Earnest Shackleton!

 

[Bombardier]

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[Gaz]

Creeps me out! And those guys went through such a struggle after that... The icy hell of Elephant Island.....

It's been a long time since I read about it, but it arguably got worse. By the time they got home, World War One was in full swing and not all of them came home from that.

 

[Chazman]

Amazing!