Over a century after its sinking, the ship of famed polar explorer ... In 2022, underwater drones captured 25,000 pictures of ...
The Endurance, the ship of famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, had been lost for 107 years after being crushed by ice and sinking during the ill-fated 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
This is to say we have reached the Endurance sinking position. Lekker Lekker Lekker [Afrikaans for “Nice, Nice, Nice”]” All day Saturday we were wedged in thick ice 19 miles from the site.
including the poignant moment the ship’s mast collapses as Endurance is crushed by sea ice. Despite the sailors’ perilous predicament, Shackleton insisted the nitrate film was salvaged.
Lesson plan to accompany NOVA's Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance program: Weighty Decisions: Students decide what to rescue from the sinking Endurance and compare those decisions to ones made by ...