Wreck of the " Endurance" located. boating content!

[Jim]

OMG they found The Endurance​

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Post by Uncle Jim » Wed Mar 09, 2022 12:22 pm

Ernest Shackeltons ship.
sank in 1915 exploring the southern Antartic....
for you non history buffs.
I love this stuff !

Endurance: Ernest Shackleton's long-missing ship finally located in Weddell Sea
"Endurance: Ernest Shackleton's long-missing ship finally located in Weddell Sea" https://www.cnn.com/travel/amp/ernest-s ... index.html

 

[MPHSystems]

Great footage…


Your link is from CNN so I wonder if it‘s even true Or just CGI.

 

[Racey]

There is an awesome DocuDrama on their entire ordeal called "Shackelton's Captain".

It's friggin unreal what those guys went through. Stranded for 18 months in the antartic. The perseverance they had to survive is second to none.

 

[sintax]

Let me know if they find any of my AR15's or AK47's down there. I'd love them back!

 

[sintax]

There is an awesome DocuDrama on their entire ordeal called "Shackelton's Captain".

It's friggin unreal what those guys went through. Stranded for 18 months in the antartic. The perseverance they had to survive is second to none.

yea, i was reading about this yesterday. Whats crazy is they have actual pictures of the boat being slowly consumed by the ice sheet over a number of days until it finally was crushed and taken down. As you mention, it wasn't a quick event.

 

[rrrr]

There is an awesome DocuDrama on their entire ordeal called "Shackelton's Captain".

It's friggin unreal what those guys went through. Stranded for 18 months in the antartic. The perseverance they had to survive is second to none.

I have read several books about the British expeditions to the Antarctic. What those explorers endured was amazing, spending years on the frozen continent in primitive conditions.

For those who don't know the story about Ernest Shackleton and his ship Endurance, here's a quick rrrr RDP History Lesson™.

Ernest Shackleton was a very talented and focused Antarctic explorer. In a 1907-1909 expedition, Shackleton and two other men almost became the first to set foot on the South Pole, coming within 112 miles before being forced to turn back because of food and weather impediments.

Norwegian explorer Raold Amundsen gained the pole in 1911, so Shackleton decided his next Antarctic expedition would involve landing on the shore of the Weddell Sea and trekking across the frozen continent to the Pole and then exit via a waiting ship on the shore of the Ross Sea. This was a dangerous and challenging plan.

The expedition left England in 1914, and after almost three months of sailing in the Endurance, entered the ice scattered Wedell Sea. Soon the ship became locked in ice. The 28 men decided they would ride out the fall and winter, and hope the ship would be freed come spring.

But it was not to be. The circulating pack ice was compressed around the Endurance, and although the men tried to cut it free, the ship was crushed by the pressure and began to sink. Shackleton ordered his men to place as much food and coal as possible on the ice before the ship went down. They also removed the ship's three 22' boats.

They spent fourteen months dragging the boats across the pack ice, until it broke up and they were able to travel in the boats to tiny Elephant Island, living under the upturned boats for shelter. Food was running out, and Shackleton decided he would take one of the boats and try to reach South Georgia Island, which had an occupied British whaling station, 800 miles away. It was April 1916.

After installing a makeshift deck on the 22' boat to better survive the turbulent seas, Shackleton set out for the island, accompanied by the captain of the Endurance and four other men. In an incredible feat of seamanship, the party reached the island after fourteen days at sea.

However, their ordeal wasn't over. They had landed on the opposite side of the island from the whaling station. it took another week of climbing ice and snow packed 3000' high mountains before they reached it. Explaining the situation to those manning the whaling station, a small rescue ship was dispatched. Due to the pack ice it had to return, and finding a suitable ship to manuever through the ice took several months.

Meanwhile, the men marooned on Elephant Island had still been living under the two remaining upturned boats. In an almost unbelievable outcome, on August 30, 1916, six months after Shackleton had left to find help, a ship appeared on the horizon. Soon the castaways were on board, and heading back to South Georgia Island.

The ordeal had been one of the most difficult documented survival stories in recorded history. Incredibly, not one man of the expedition to the Wedell Sea had died. By April 1917, the men had all returned to England. Shackleton was last to arrive home, after making a quick tour of the United States.

I was astounded when I saw an online post by the expedition announcing they had found the wreck of the Endurance. The photographs taken of the ship by the remote vehicle are stunning.

This is an illustration of the expedition's travels. The light blue line is the planned route across Antarctica. The yellow line shows the path of the Endurance after it was locked in the pack ice, and the green line represents the men's travel on foot and small boat to Elephant Island. The blue line shows the route taken by Shackleton and his five crew sailing from Elephant Island to South Georgia Island. These were hard and dedicated men. The Antarctic is a deadly place.

 

[Hydroman55]

I to have read much on Shackleton he was one tough SOB and perfect example of leadership.
And our President thinks he’s a leader.

 

[Todd Mohr]

Awesome story and incredible leadership, the book is a great read.

 

[rrrr]

I too have read much on Shackleton he was one tough SOB and perfect example of leadership.
And our President thinks he’s a leader.

After cheating death during the 1914 expedition and fighting in WWI and the Russian Civil War, Shackleton raised funds and shipped from England in September 1921 for a return to the frozen continent. He didn't make it there.

On January 5, 1922, a day after arriving back on South Georgia Island, Shackleton, 47 years of age, suffered a massive heart attack and died. His grave on South Georgia is a monument to the great explorer.

 

[Seas]

One of the greatest survival and leadership stories of all time.​

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“FOR SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY GIVE ME SCOTT; FOR SPEED AND EFFICIENCY OF TRAVEL GIVE ME AMUNDSEN; BUT WHEN DISASTER STRIKES AND ALL HOPE IS GONE, GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND PRAY FOR SHACKLETON.”​

– ANTARCTIC EXPLORER, SIR RAYMOND PRIESTLY​

 

[rrrr]

One of the greatest survival and leadership stories of all time.​

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“FOR SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY GIVE ME SCOTT; FOR SPEED AND EFFICIENCY OF TRAVEL GIVE ME AMUNDSEN; BUT WHEN DISASTER STRIKES AND ALL HOPE IS GONE, GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND PRAY FOR SHACKLETON.”​

– ANTARCTIC EXPLORER, SIR RAYMOND PRIESTLY​

Your post is a nice addition to the thread.

Although Shackleton's 1909 Nimrod Expedition was a success in many ways, his attempt to reach the South Pole fell short by 112 statute miles. A small group of his men were the first to climb 12,450' Mount Erebus, a volcano that has active magma vents and a smouldering lava crater at the summit. Another party of the expedition located the South Magnetic Pole.

This Wikipedia page gives a good account of the expedition:

Nimrod Expedition - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The March 8, 2022 announced discovery of Endurance, the sunken ship that carried Shackleton's 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica, highlighted the professionalism and knowledge of the ship's captain, Frank Worsely.

Worsely was instrumental in the success of sailing one of Endurance's 22' boats to South Georgia Island to enable rescue of the crew. His navigation skills, using only a compass, a sextant, and longitude tables, led the small boat directly to the island after an 800 mile voyage on rough seas.

Worsely also played an important role in last month's discovery of the Endurance, 117 years after it was crushed in pack ice and sank in 10,000' deep waters. As it was in its final death throes, he took sextant shots and consulted his longitude tables to fix the ship's final position.

Worsely's position fix, using the crude navigation tools of the era, placed the ship just four miles from the actual location of its discovery.

 

[Sleek-Jet]

To us with GPS and inertial navigation systems, it is amazing how accurate a skilled navigator can be shooting a sun line and equiped with a good watch. But that is how humanity navigated the globe for several centuries.