From there they sailed to South Georgia Island and a month later, the ship left for Antarctica and the Weddell Sea, getting stuck in the ice on January 24, 1915. Before completion the owners ran out of money and Shackleton got it at a bargain price.Īfter departing England on Aug(Britain had declared war on Germany on August 4), Endurance arrived in Buenos Aires in October. A 144-foot three-masted barquentine with a 25-foot beam it was built in 1912 in Norway. His ship of choice was originally named Polaris and renamed Endurance after Shackleton’s family motto: fortitudine vincimus, or by endurance we conquer. The team would bring their own food halfway and then pick up the caches after that. Another ship, Aurora, would be on the other side of Antarctica setting food caches. The plan was to take the ship Endurance into the Weddell Sea and drop off a sledding team of six men and 70 dogs. The Trans-Antarctic expedition a sled journey across the continent. In March of this year their ship, Endurance, was located 10,000 feet deep in the Weddell Sea in a remarkable state of preservation.Įven before Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole in 1912, Sir Ernest Shackleton had contemplated another Antarctic effort. How Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew persevered, establishing the template for surviving harsh conditions. How a courageous band of brothers survived the loss of their ship thousands of miles from all help. Vessel Endurance was recently found deep in the Weddell Sea. In August, ice floes pressed into the ship with such force that the ship's decks buckled.Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition For 10 months, the crew endured the freezing conditions. Endurance became completely icebound on January 24, and by mid-February, Shackleton ordered the boilers to be shut off so that the ship would drift with the ice until the weather warmed sufficiently for the pack to break up. By the time they reached the Weddell Sea in January 1915, accumulating pack ice and strong gales slowed progress to a crawl. A survival storyĮndurance set sail from Plymouth on August 6, 1914, with Shackleton joining his crew in Buenos Aires. included shots of the stern (with "ENDURANCE" clearly visible), the rear deck and ship's wheel, and parts of the deck and hull. In fact, the Endurance22 expedition's exploration director, Mensun Bound, told The New York Times that the shipwreck is the finest example he's ever seen Endurance is "in a brilliant state of preservation." The expedition has released the first images of the wreck-the first time anyone has laid eyes on Endurance since its sinking a century ago. The shipwreck is in pristine condition partly because of the lack of wood-eating microbes in those waters. Today, the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic announced the discovery of this famous shipwreck, nearly 107 years later, 3,008 meters down, roughly four miles (6.4 km) south of the ship's last recorded position. In 1915, intrepid British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew were stranded for months on the Antarctic ice after their ship, Endurance, was crushed by pack ice and sank into the freezing depths of the Weddell Sea. Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/NatGeo reader comments 108 with
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