Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's Ship, Lost in 1915, Is Found in Antarctica (nytimes.com) 29
Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915. From a report: The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack ice and sank during an expedition by the explorer Ernest Shackleton. A team of adventurers, marine archaeologists and technicians located the wreck at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, using undersea drones. Battling sea ice and freezing temperatures, the team had been searching for more than two weeks in a 150-square-mile area around where the ship went down in 1915. Endurance, a 144-foot, three-masted wooden ship, holds a revered place in polar history because it spawned one of the greatest survival stories in the annals of exploration. Its location, nearly 10,000 feet down in waters that are among the iciest on Earth, placed it among the most celebrated shipwrecks that had not been found. The discovery of the wreck was announced Wednesday in a statement by the search expedition, Endurance22.
Non-paywalled from The Guardian (Score:5, Informative)
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Thanks. I was just about to go searching for another website.
Re: Non-paywalled from The Guardian (Score:1)
She was so well conserved (Score:3)
Possibly due to the under ice temperatures, but the pictures show very few degradation beside the damages caused by the wreckage and accounting for a century underwater.
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Quote from the article:
He tweeted: âoeThe wreck is coherent, in an astonishing state of preservation. The Antarctic seabed does not have any wood-eating micro-organisms, the water has the clarity of distilled water. We were able to film the wreck in super-high definition. The results are magical Endurance22.â
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What paywall? The link works fine for me. The problem must be on your end.
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If you turn off javascript for that site, it loads fine
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Go to the acual site of the Team (Score:2)
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Great! (Score:1)
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They didn't tamper with the wreckage. Maybe in the future, with better technology, they can do a 3d Scan of the ship without having to enter it.
Without entering? I get preservation, but to expend this much effort to find something, and then not really look at it? Might as well not even bothered to dig deep.
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They didn't tamper with the wreckage. Maybe in the future, with better technology, they can do a 3d Scan of the ship without having to enter it.
Without entering? I get preservation, but to expend this much effort to find something, and then not really look at it? Might as well not even bothered to dig deep.
That's fine. No one asked them to go and poke around the wreck of a ship which sank not really all that long ago and which was fully documented down to the number of spare nails on board.
Now that they've found it, perhaps they could piss back off home and leave it alone.
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They didn't tamper with the wreckage. Maybe in the future, with better technology, they can do a 3d Scan of the ship without having to enter it.
Without entering? I get preservation, but to expend this much effort to find something, and then not really look at it? Might as well not even bothered to dig deep.
That's fine. No one asked them to go and poke around the wreck of a ship which sank not really all that long ago and which was fully documented down to the number of spare nails on board.
If we knew that level of detail already, then it tends to question any effort here. The hell is the point in going through all that to find the exact location, if you're not going to actually look at it in detail?
We didn't land on the moon, and then peer out the fucking window and wonder.
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They didn't tamper with the wreckage. Maybe in the future, with better technology, they can do a 3d Scan of the ship without having to enter it.
Without entering? I get preservation, but to expend this much effort to find something, and then not really look at it? Might as well not even bothered to dig deep.
That's fine. No one asked them to go and poke around the wreck of a ship which sank not really all that long ago and which was fully documented down to the number of spare nails on board.
If we knew that level of detail already, then it tends to question any effort here. The hell is the point in going through all that to find the exact location, if you're not going to actually look at it in detail?
We didn't land on the moon, and then peer out the fucking window and wonder.
It's a sunken boat from the 20th century; not some great feat. The feat here was done by the men.
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Why should anyone leave it alone. The only reason to leave a sunken ship be is if its a grave site, and this isn't the crew abandon her before she sank.
Its a fascinating bit of history and would make an excellent museum piece if it could be preserved (which might not be possible, its likely to deteriorate rapidly in either warmer water or if removed from water) . However I don't for the life of me understand why they don't go inside with some robotic equipment and get some interior pictures, remove the ar
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Why should anyone leave it alone. The only reason to leave a sunken ship be is if its a grave site, and this isn't the crew abandon her before she sank.
Its a fascinating bit of history and would make an excellent museum piece if it could be preserved (which might not be possible, its likely to deteriorate rapidly in either warmer water or if removed from water) .
If they could raise it that would be something worth talking about but otherwise this is just a stunt, like finding the Titanic was.
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It's protected by the Antarctic Treaty as an historic monument [www.ats.aq], so they can't damage it in any way. The remotely operated vehicle they used is pretty big - it looks to be about 2.5ft x 6ft x 12ft [wetransfer.com] to me - so it wouldn't fit through a porthole or even a hatch. They probably couldn't get inside.
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Remarkable Seamanship (Score:2)
The Endurance was found off the coast of Antarctica, approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by its captain, Frank Worsley. It has not been seen since it was crushed by ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in November 1915.
That is really impressive accuracy given conditions, the region and the era. Especially because she certainly could have drifted some after she sank.
Press Release: Endurance is Found (Score:4, Informative)
The original Press Release, with photos, from the Falklands Heritage Trust: Endurance is Found [endurance22.org]
The bottom of the press release has links to additional photos and a video.
Amazing survival story (Score:5, Interesting)
The crew of the Endurance survived what most people would have thought was impossible and did so with out a single loss of life.
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This. It's just amazing that all of the humans survived (can't say the same about the dogs).
This tale is ripe for a big screen Hollywood blockbuster, and I'm actually kind of surprised that it hasn't already been made (if someone does know of a non-documentary film about it, please do tell).
History's Greatest Mysteries (Score:2)
History's Greatest Mysteries season 1 episode 3 did a pretty good episode on this search. Mostly covered how tough it was to actually search for a shipwreck in the area as they failed to locate the ship during that episode.
If you've never read the book (Score:2)
It's awsome, you should read it. It's in my top 5.
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+1 Oh yes. It's really hard to put it down before the last page.
It is also a TV show (Score:1)
The survival tale as told by a BBC series.
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