Big news from the bottom of the world: Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, has been discovered 100-plus years after it sank. The Endurance was recently found after an intensive, $10 million-plus search.
There’s big news from the bottom of the world: Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, has been discovered 100-plus years after it sank.
So, what makes Shackleton and Endurance so significant? And how was the ship discovered? Read on to find out. Shackleton and his men, a crew of 27, hunkered down for months — the South Pole winter is during our summer — but the situation became hopeless as ice hit the vessel and water eventually poured in. Shackleton had to order his men to abandon ship on Oct. 27, 1915, with the boat sinking sometime later. From there, the Endurance team camped on the ice and employed numerous measures to make it to safe ground, which happened in 2016. Shackleton didn’t return to England, his home country, until 1917.
How did the Endurance team react to their discovery? Needless to say, they were overjoyed. “We have made polar history with the discovery of Endurance, and successfully completed the world’s most challenging shipwreck search,” said expedition leader Dr. John Shears in a statement.
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