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The book recounts both the expeditions to find the Endurance. Mensun Bound was the Director of Exploration on both expeditions. Mensun Bound was the Director of Exploration on both expeditions. Bound used details from the diaries of Shackleton's men in order to reconstruct the exact whereabouts of the ship under the ice.
On 14 February, an open channel of water opened up 0.25 mi (0.40 km) ahead of the ship and dawn showed the Endurance was afloat in a pool of soft, young ice no more than 2 ft (0.61 m) thick, but the pool was surrounded by solid pack ice of 12–18 ft (3.7–5.5 m) in thickness, blocking the path to the open lead. A day's continual work by the ...
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.
This extraordinary ship is an inquisitive voyager’s oasis. Here's why Viking's Polaris is the ultimate Antarctic adventure for book lovers. ... ships and sailors for centuries under the ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (French: Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers) is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. It is often considered a classic within both its genres and world literature .
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The book details the almost two-year struggle for survival endured by the twenty-eight man crew of the exploration ship Endurance. The ship was beset and eventually crushed by ice floes in the Weddell Sea, leaving the men stranded on the pack ice. All in all, the crew drifted on a series of ice floes for just over a year, facing a second ...
Ocean myths and legends abound and any sailor worth his sea salt loves a good tale from the sea. According to the captain of an icy ship that recently docked in Russia, this story all started with ...
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