The Endurance

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 They found her!

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship 'Endurance' has been found off the coast of Antarctica more than a century after it sank. Historian Dan Snow, who is a member of the Endurance22 expedition team, said the discovery was 'like a miracle' and the ship is 'almost perfectly preserved'. He told Sky News live from Antarctica about the moment the team saw the ship for the first time.

 

 

 

 

 

 In August 1914 the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–16) left England under Shackleton’s leadership. He planned to cross Antarctica from a base on the Weddell Sea to McMurdo Sound, via the South Pole, but the expedition ship Endurance was trapped in ice off the Caird coast and drifted for 10 months before being crushed in the pack ice. The members of the expedition then drifted on ice floes for another five months and finally escaped in boats to Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands, where they subsisted on seal meat, penguins, and their dogs. Shackleton and five others sailed 800 miles (1,300 km) to South Georgia in a whale boat, a 16-day journey across a stretch of dangerous ocean, before landing on the southern side of South Georgia. Shackleton and his small crew then made the first crossing of the island to seek aid. Four months later, after leading four separate relief expeditions, Shackleton succeeded in rescuing his crew from Elephant Island. Throughout the ordeal, not one of Shackleton’s crew of the Endurance died.

 

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