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The project to find the so-called "unreachable" Endurance began in a South Kensington coffee bar in August 2012. [2] Ten years later, in March 2022, she was found [3] 3,000 meters beneath the perennial ice of the Weddell Sea [4] or, what Shackleton called "the worst portion of the worst sea on earth."
"Endurance" features thousands of 3D scans shot by a 4K camera deployed to a depth of nearly 10,000 feet. ... "No one's ever found a wooden shipwreck 3,000 metres down in one of the most remote ...
An awe-inspiring 3D scan has brought the shipwreck of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance, found in 2022, back to life. Previously unseen details, such as a boot possibly worn ...
Mensun Bound (born 4 February 1953) is a British maritime archaeologist born in Stanley, Falkland Islands.He is best known as director of exploration for two expeditions to the Weddell Sea which led to the rediscovery of the Endurance, [1] in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Endurance was the three-masted barquentine in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship, originally named Polaris , was built at Framnæs shipyard and launched in 1912 from Sandefjord in Norway .
The wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship “Endurance” has been found 107 years after it sank off the coast of Antarctica and National Geographic has been swift to commission a documentary on the ...
The wooden ship had not been seen since it went down in the Weddell Sea in 1915.
After the Endurance sank, the crew salvaged what they could, with most of their clothing having been already collected. Blackborow, however, had taken the wrong sort of boots and on the crew's journey to Elephant Island via lifeboat, his feet were continuously exposed to the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean for several days.