Shackleton's Endurance found after 107 years
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While 107 years ago seems a long time ago, in other views, it feels somewhat recent. Still, it's hard to fathom how tough, scary, unknown....these types of exploring efforts were like, especially in harsh environments like the Antarctic and surrounding islands and waters. And here I am... with a sore neck because of how I slept last night.
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While 107 years ago seems a long time ago, in other views, it feels somewhat recent. Still, it's hard to fathom how tough, scary, unknown....these types of exploring efforts were like, especially in harsh environments like the Antarctic and surrounding islands and waters. And here I am... with a sore neck because of how I slept last night.
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Wow, that really is amazing.
It looks exceptionally well preserved.
I was only joking
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Awesome story!!!
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Wow, that really is amazing.
It looks exceptionally well preserved.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Shackleton's Endurance found after 107 years:
Wow, that really is amazing.
It looks exceptionally well preserved.
Indeed, almost like a movie prop.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvv2w2e69go
Wreck hunters have found the ship on which the famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton made his final voyage.
The vessel, called "Quest", has been located on the seafloor off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
Shackleton suffered a fatal heart attack on board on 5 January 1922 while trying to reach the Antarctic.
And although Quest continued in service until it sank in 1962, the earlier link with the explorer gives it great historic significance.
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/heres-the-real-reason-endurance-sank/
In 1915, intrepid British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew were stranded for months in the Antarctic after their ship, Endurance, was trapped by pack ice, eventually sinking into the freezing depths of the Weddell Sea. Miraculously, the entire crew survived. The prevailing popular narrative surrounding the famous voyage features two key assumptions: that Endurance was the strongest polar ship of its time, and that the ship ultimately sank after ice tore away the rudder.
However, a fresh analysis reveals that Endurance would have sunk even with an intact rudder; it was crushed by the cumulative compressive forces of the Antarctic ice with no single cause for the sinking. Furthermore, the ship wasn't designed to withstand those forces, and Shackleton was likely well aware of that fact, according to a new paper published in the journal Polar Record. Yet he chose to embark on the risky voyage anyway.
Author Jukka Tuhkuri of Aalto University is a polar explorer and one of the leading researchers on ice worldwide. He was among the scientists on the Endurance22 mission that discovered the Endurance shipwreck in 2022, documented in a 2024 National Geographic documentary. The ship was in pristine condition partly because of the lack of wood-eating microbes in those waters. In fact, the Endurance22 expedition's exploration director, Mensun Bound, told The New York Times at the time that the shipwreck was the finest example he's ever seen; Endurance was "in a brilliant state of preservation."
