The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found at the weekend at the bottom of the Weddell Sea. The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing ...
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set out with his crew of 27 men aboard the Endurance, aiming to make the first land crossing ...
The search for Endurance was part of a bigger mission to find out more about the effects of global warming and the breaking up of ice shelves. Photograph by Weddell Sea Expedition The Weddell Sea ...
In 2022, the Endurance22 Expedition found something that had been hidden in the frigid depths of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea for ...
Mensun Bound, who as Director of Exploration of the team that on March 5 discovered Sir Ernest Shackleton’s sunken ship Endurance in the Weddell Sea, will deliver talks onboard Cunard’s Queen ...
However, fate had other plans. In January 1915, their ship, the Endurance, became trapped in the thick, impenetrable ice of the Weddell Sea. Shackleton and his men were stranded on the ice for ...
The Endurance sank at 5 pm ... On January 1 they gathered, mission-ready, upon the freezing white banks of the Weddell Sea. On January 4, a little later than planned, they set sail on the South ...
"As a team we are clearly disappointed not to have been successful in our mission to find Endurance," said Mensun Bound, the director of exploration for the Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 group.
However, The Endurance was trapped in pack ice before making landfall, and it sank into the Weddell Sea after being irretrievably damaged by the accompanying pressure. The crew abandoned the ship ...
The wreck of the HMS Endurance ship, which famously sank after being trapped in pack ice in Antarctica's Weddell Sea in 1915, was discovered by an expedition this month. Led by the renowned ...