Endurance Discovered
At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found
Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915.
A Search’s Timeline through the Press
On February 4th, 2022, the New York Times reported that a search was underway to find Shackleton’s Endurance. On March 9, 2022, The discovery of the ship was announced by the search expedition Endurance 22.
Below are selected articles pertaining to the search and discovery.
Quotation of the Day:
“A Quest to Find the ‘Most Unreachable Wreck’”
Feb. 3, 2022. The New York Times
“It’s the most unreachable wreck ever. Which makes this the greatest wreck hunt of all time.” MENSUN BOUND, a marine archaeologist and director of exploration of the expedition searching for Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, which sank in Antarctica in 1915.
A Search Begins for the Wreck Behind an Epic Tale of Survival
February 4, 2022. Henry Fountain, The New York Times
Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice in 1915. Now, a team of researchers is heading to the Weddell Sea where it went down.
A century after Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank in the waters of Antarctica, resulting in one of the greatest survival stories in the history of exploration, a team of modern adventurers, technicians and scientists is setting sail to find the wreck.
With a crew of 46 and a 64-member expedition team aboard, a South African icebreaker, the Agulhas II, is set to leave Cape Town on Saturday, bound for the Weddell Sea. Once there, the team hopes to find the wreck and explore it with two underwater drones.
Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance trapped in ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915. Credit: Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, via Getty Images
Lesson of the Day: ‘A Search Begins for the Wreck Behind an Epic Tale of Survival’
March 8, 2022. Jeremy Engle, The New York Times
In this lesson, students will learn how a team of modern adventurers are searching the icy Antarctic seas for Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance over 100 years after it was lost.
At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found
Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sank in the Antarctic in 1915.
March 9, 2022. Henry Fountain, The New York Times
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.
The New Captain of the Endurance Shipwreck Is an Anemone
A who’s who of the new invertebrate crew steering Ernest Shackleton’s sunken ship in the Weddell Sea.
March 11, 2022. Sabrina Imbler, The New York Times
Huw Griffiths, a marine bio-geographer at the British Antarctic Survey, was eating pancakes when news broke that the wreck of the Endurance — the famed ship helmed by Ernest Shackleton that sank in an expedition in 1915 — had been discovered.
Dr. Griffiths found himself far more interested in the footage than his breakfast. His first thought was that the ship looked almost fake, considering how eerily pristine it remained 106 years after sinking to the bottom of the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. His second thought: What was living on it?
The Discovery of Shackleton’s Wreck Is as Disquieting as It Is Amazing
The world today is smaller and less mysterious than when Endurance sank. At the same time, we know too much about the past to be nostalgic.
March 30, 2022 – Jody Rosen
Sometimes history speaks in rhyme. On March 5, 1922, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton was buried in a hillside cemetery on the island of South Georgia, in the frigid far southern reaches of the Atlantic. Recently, a team of marine archaeologists announced that it had located the long-sought wreck of his famous ship, Endurance, a three-masted schooner barque that sank off Antarctica more than a century ago. The ship was found on March 5, 2022 — exactly 100 years after Shackleton was laid to rest.