Shackleton's Endurance Ship Finally Found

[RainbowTown]

Finally after 107 years, Shackleton's Endurance has been discovered. And it looks in pretty amazing condition. What a find.

Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic

What was one of the world's greatest undiscovered shipwrecks is identified on the Antarctic seafloor.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ernest Shackleton’s wrecked ship found off coast of Antarctica

Expedition team locates wreckage of explorer’s ship which sank in Weddell Sea in 1915

www.theguardian.com

Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance found – in pictures

Wreck of polar explorer’s ship discovered off coast of Antarctica 100 years after his death

www.theguardian.com

 

[marty21]

Looks amazing ! I just finished reading a biography of Shackleton #timing

 

[2hats]

An account of the venture, with more background information.

‘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...

www.historyhit.com

 

[weltweit]

Amazing they found it, and in such good condition.

 

[locomotive]

The pictures are absolutely incredible. I was a bit cynical about the expedition when I read about it... I thought, "What's the point?". Now they've found it, I think it's brilliant.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

why do people want to go to Antarctica to fuck the place up?

 

[clicker]

Best they leave it where it is for a bit.

 

[Hollis]

Looks amazing ! I just finished reading a biography of Shackleton #timing

I read the Roland Huntford one years ago.. excellent book, amazing person. No idea if its dated now.

 

[editor]

Breath-taking

 

[marty21]

I read the Roland Huntford one years ago.. excellent book, amazing person. No idea if its dated now.

It was the Ranulph Fiennes one that I read .

 

[marty21]

Best they leave it where it is for a bit.

They aren't allowed to disturb it.

 

[petee]

amazing find, I've long been interested.

i was in Cambridge once, went to the polar Institute, and bought this, which everyone should read

 

[petee]

Vox is on it

The bizarre deep-sea creatures living on the Endurance shipwreck

Check out these animals that have colonized the 1915 wreck.

www.vox.com

 

[surreybrowncap]

Vox is on it

The bizarre deep-sea creatures living on the Endurance shipwreck

Check out these animals that have colonized the 1915 wreck.

www.vox.com