Ernest Shackleton’s Legendary Lost Ship Endurance Discovered After 107 Years!!

[Midnight Toker]

Amazingly preserved!!

‘Like Time Travel’: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance is found. The world’s most elusive shipwreck, lying at a depth of some 3,000 metres on the bottom of the ice-choked...

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Uhh.....no thanks!!

 

[chazmo]

Yeah, truly amazing. In 3km of freezing cold water, the level of preservation is astounding after over a hundred years of being there!

 

[wileypickett]

I've read all the Shackleton books, saw the exhibit in NYC some years back -- hugely fascinating story, and now this. Wow!

 

[mellowgerman]

Remarkable. This kind of stuff blows my mind.

All seriousness aside though, could we make a few guitars out of the wood on that hull? Kinda like sinker mahogany, right?

 

[walrus]

That is crazy! It's astounding what some early explorers did...

walrus

 

[davismanLV]

Tried to get through it but they spoiiik a different version of English than EYE!! Good lord, what were they saying? And basically his advert said, "C'mon sign up you're all gonna die!!" And they did.....

 

[FNG]

I did two trips to Antarctica on Coast Guard icebreakers as part of the helicopter detachment. Went to Shackleton's Hut on Cape Royds many times. The whole Endurance story is remarkable. The fact that they sailed from Antarctica to South Georgia Island in a 25 foot whaleboat with a sextant is mind-boggling. The Southern Ocean don't take prisoners. They don't make dudes like that anymore!

We flew in to Commonwealth Bay while taking scientists to check an automated weather station. A couple was there, having spent the last 11 months living there. We were the first people they had seen since they got dropped off. We drop in around minute 48...Christmas day 1995 around midnight...

 

[SFIV1967]

Tried to get through it but they spoiiik a different version of English than EYE!! Good lord, what were they saying?

Well, he's British and I guess the satellite phone didn't help either...

Ralf

 

[wileypickett]

Fourteen days at sea in a patched up long boat in ferocious icy conditions for a journey of 800 miles, and if they'd been off by one degree in their calculations they would have missed South Georgia altogether and been lost at sea. Which meant that the men they left behind on Elephant Island would never have been rescued.

And the visibility was so poor they were only able to use ther sextant a few times in those 14 days to plot their course.

Truth in advertising, that's for sure!

Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance expedition, The voyage of the James Caird, Elephant Island to South Georgia

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[Prince of Darkness]

How a 5-String Banjo Saved the Shackleton Expedition - twayneking's Blog - Banjo Hangout

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[fronobulax]

How a 5-String Banjo Saved the Shackleton Expedition - twayneking's Blog - Banjo Hangout

www.banjohangout.org

Finally, respect for the banjo