Endurance Found

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Watch: Endurance Shipwreck Found in Antarctic Waters After 107 Years

Video shows the well-preserved wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, which sank in Antarctic waters and disappeared under sea ice in 1915. The ship was found nearly two miles beneath the ocean. Photo: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/National Geographic

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[Yooper_Bob]

These guys were true "adventurers"!

We are all just a bunch of wussy wanna be's....

 

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[Bigtallbastard]

Wow

 

[Shiryas]

Pretty cool that they found the ship. I have read a couple of books about the expedition, may have to re-read one or find another, such an incredible accomplishment in the Roaring 40's and Furious 50's.

While the advertisement for "men wanted" is questioned by historians, I really like this quote ...

• For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a Winter Journey, Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen: and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.
  • The Worst Journey in the World (1922), Volume One, Preface, p. viii , Apsley Cherry-Garrard