One of the greatest maritime mysteries of modern times was solved when a team of explorers said they had discovered the wreck of a ship that disappeared ...
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The Endurance, one of the world's most famous shipwrecks, has been found off the coast of Antarctica more than 100 years after the vessel was slowly crushed ...
His “detailed records were invaluable in our quest to locate the wreck,” Bound said.Bound said the wreck was “upright ... intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation.”British historian Dan Snow said in a video published by the BBC that there was an “overwhelming sense of happiness and relief” among the crew when they learned that the vessel had been found with the use of specialist equipment including submarines. Sea ice has since reached its lowest level ever recorded, making conditions for the search more favorable.Shackleton himself described the location as “the worst portion of the worst sea in the world,” the Guardian reported.“Nothing was touched on the wreck,” Snow said, calling the mission the “greatest experience” of his career.“It is protected by the Antarctic Treaty,” Snow explained, adding that the team did not “wish to tamper with it.”The 1959 Antarctic Treaty declared the site of the Endurance a historic monument.The most important news stories of the day, curated by Post editors and delivered every morning.By signing up you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy The team’s goal was to find the wreck, using drones and specialist equipment including submarines, helicopters and robots.Team members said they based their search on the last known position of the ship, as recorded in 1915 by the ship’s captain, Frank Worsley. The vessel was found about four miles south of its last logged position — coordinates which were found in Worsley’s diary: 68°39’ 30”S, 52°26’30”W.In a statement, Mensun Bound, the director of exploration on the expedition, paid tribute to Worsley’s navigational skills. The stern, wheel, bow and deck were also visible.Before the ship sank, Shackleton and 27 crew members were headed to a bay in the Weddell Sea, where they hoped they would kick-start the first crossing on foot of Antarctica via the South Pole to the Ross Sea.The Weddell Sea is known for its dangerous, icy conditions, which has made searches for the ship difficult, the BBC reported. (Reuters)The Endurance, one of the world’s most famous shipwrecks, has been found off the coast of Antarctica more than 100 years after the vessel was slowly crushed by ice, forcing the British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew eventually to abandon the ship before it sank. It was literally “frozen in time,” he said.Footage taken at the scene showed the paint is still visible, along with the ship’s name “ENDURANCE” above a star on the hull.
A view of the stern of the wreck of Endurance, polar explorer's Ernest Shackleton's ship. Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer ...
Scientists say they have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ...
It is protected by the Antarctic Treaty. Nor did we wish to tamper with it.” It was surveyed using the latest tools and its position confirmed. “It is upright, well proud (clear) of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation.
Over a century after it sank to the depths of the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica, the lost ship of Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton.
They escaped in lifeboats and on foot. “It just doesn’t get any better,” he said. “It’s beautiful,” he said.
More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in ...
"This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation," Mensun Bound, the mission's director of exploration, said in a statement. The ship, which sank in 1915, is 3,008 meters (1.9 miles or 9,842 feet) deep in the Weddell Sea, a pocket in the Southern Ocean along the northern coast of Antarctica , south of the Falkland Islands.
One of the most storied shipwrecks in maritime history has been found off the coast of Antarctica -- some 107 years later.
Those detailed records were pivotal to the “monumental” find, Bound said. “It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation.” “We hope our discovery will engage young people and inspire them with the pioneering spirit, courage and fortitude of those who sailed Endurance to Antarctica.”
An expedition that set out in search of the lost ship of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has found it — 106 years after the vessel sank off Antarctica. The wooden ship Endurance has been located about 10,000 feet underwater in the Weddell Sea, ...
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An expedition that set out in search of the lost ship of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has found it — 106 years after the vessel sank off Antarctica.
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The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust confirmed on Wednesday that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ...
I would also like to say thank you to The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, and all of our partners, especially in South Africa, who have played a vital role in the success of the expedition.” Short-form content continues to be distributed to millions of subscribers, including with content breaking on TikTok. The team has also been filming for a long-form observational documentary chronicling the expedition which has been commissioned by National Geographic to air later this year. In the Weddell Sea, Endurance never reached land and became trapped in the dense pack ice and the 28 men on board eventually had no choice but to abandon ship. In addition, we have undertaken important scientific research in a part of the world that directly affects the global climate and environment. Saab provided the Sabertooth so I also want to thank them, including their ace team on board SA Agulhas II, and those who ensured the vehicles performed as well as they did.” We hope our discovery will engage young people and inspire them with the pioneering spirit, courage and fortitude of those who sailed Endurance to Antarctica. We pay tribute to the navigational skills of Captain Frank Worsley, the Captain of the Endurance, whose detailed records were invaluable in our quest to locate the wreck. “This has been the most complex subsea project ever undertaken, with several world records achieved to ensure the safe detection of Endurance. State of the art subsea technologies have been deployed to achieve this successful outcome and I would particularly like to thank the subsea team for all of the engineering support, both on board the ship and throughout the months of planning, design and testing. However, it is not all about the past; we are bringing the story of Shackleton and Endurance to new audiences, and to the next generation, who will be entrusted with the essential safeguarding of our polar regions and our planet. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. The Trustees extend to them all our warmest thanks and congratulations on this historic achievement.” “Our objectives for Endurance22 were to locate, survey and film the wreck, but also to conduct important scientific research, and to run an exceptional outreach programme. The team worked from the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S. A. Agulhas II, owned by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment and under Master, Capt. Knowledge Bengu, using Saab’s Sabertooth hybrid underwater search vehicles.
The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack ice and sank during an expedition by the ...
Its location, nearly 10,000 feet down in waters that are among the iciest on Earth, placed it among the most celebrated shipwrecks that had not been found. Battling sea ice and freezing temperatures, the team had been searching for more than two weeks in a 150-square-mile area around where the ship went down in 1915. A team of adventurers, marine archaeologists and technicians located the wreck at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, using undersea drones.
Why it matters: This is one of history's most famous shipwrecks. Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, trying to reach the South Pole, abandoned the wooden ...
The ship was crushed by ice and sank. * "Battling sea ice and freezing temperatures, the team had been searching for more than two weeks in a 150-square-mile area around where the ship went down in 1915." * "A team of adventurers, marine archaeologists and technicians located the wreck ... using undersea drones," the New York Times reports.
Britain Antarctic Ship In this photo issued by Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, a view of the stern of the wreck of Endurance, polar explorer's Ernest ...
Sea anemones, sponges and other small ocean life made homes on the wreckage but didn't appear to have damaged it. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. Under international law, the wreck is protected as a historic site. Amazingly, the helm has remained intact after more than a century underwater, with gear piled against the taffrail as if Shackleton's crew had only recently left it. You can even see 'Endurance' arced across the stern," he said in a statement. The explorers used underwater drones to find and film the shipwreck in the merciless Weddell Sea, which has a swirling current that sustains a mass of thick sea ice that can challenge even modern ice breakers.
Researchers have discovered the remarkably well-preserved wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, in 10000 feet of icy water, a century ...
That successful trip is considered a heroic feat of fortitude, and Shackleton’s decisive response to imminent tragedy is still held up today as a model of how to lead in difficult circumstances. The expedition to find Endurance comes a century after Shackleton’s death in 1922. “This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen,” said Mensun Bound, the director of the exploration. Researchers filmed the wreck, but nothing was recovered or disturbed. “Shackleton was very good at planner and a good improviser — I have a feeling that the polar explorers of today would not survive the same kinds of things he endured,” said Anna Wahlin, a polar researcher at the University of Gothenburg, who just returned from a two-month mission studying ice shelves and warming ocean currents in Antartica. The discovery is “a titantic find” in “one of the world’s most challenging environments,” said maritime historian Steven Schwankert, who was not involved in the expedition.