/ 10 March 2022

Patience pays with Endurance

Image source: Getty
Image source: Getty

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica has been found and filmed 107 years after it went under. The famed Irishman’s expedition to the South Pole in 1914 struck disaster when the Endurance became trapped for 10 months in the ice where it was slowly crushed before sinking. What happened next was an incredible story of survival as the crew escaped on small boats. A huge search effort started last year with sorts of hi-tech underwater detection equipment. Hopes of actually finding it weren’t high due to searchers’ battle with “constantly shifting sea-ice, blizzards, and temperatures dropping down to -18C,” Dr John Shears from the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said. But they’ve done it and they say the Endurance is in remarkably good condition despite being underwater for more than a century. Not that anyone can touch it – it’s protected under the international Antarctic Treaty.

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