#1553 Shackleton’s Ship the Endurance Found!

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

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Clay Jenkinson interviews Enlightenment correspondent David Nicandri about the discovery of Ernest Shackleton’s ship the Endurance at the bottom of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. The Endurance sank in November 1915 after being trapped and crushed by polar ice. A rescue archaeologist named Mensun Bound led two multimillion dollar expeditions to find the sunken ship, which had settled on the bottom of the icy sea nearly 10,000 feet below the surface. On March 5, 2022, an underwater probe found the Endurance right where it should be, and to their great surprise, it was wonderfully intact. Clay asks Nicandri whether such an expensive undertaking was worth it.

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0:00.0	This week on Listening to America, my conversation with our Enlightenment correspondent David McCampry
0:07.0	about the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's ship The Endurance at the bottom of the
0:11.0	Weddle Sea in Antarctica. The endurance sank in November 1915 after being trapped and crushed
0:17.1	by the polar ice. The story of how Shackleton and his crew of 27 all lived to tell the tale
0:23.2	is one of the greatest survival stories in recorded history. A rescue archaeologist named
0:28.0	Mensenbound led two multi-million dollar expeditions to find the sunk ship, which had settled
0:33.9	on the bottom of the ACC nearly 10,000 feet below the surface. On March 5, 2022, an underwater
0:41.1	probe found the endurance right where it should be, and to their great surprise, it was wonderfully
0:46.8	intact. It's a thrilling story. Join us for all that and more on this week's Listening to America.
0:58.5	Hello everyone and welcome to Listening to America with Clay Jenkinson. I'm delighted today
1:12.7	to pursue our Enlightenment theme with our West Coast Enlightenment correspondent Mr. David McCampry,
1:19.4	formerly the executive director of the Washington State Historical Society and the author of
1:24.0	several important books, one on Lewis and Clark, actually two on Lewis and Clark, a third coming
1:31.0	and a book on Captain James Cook's third voyage. Welcome correspondent McCampry.
1:36.1	That's good to be with your citizen. New is in the world. The endurance has been discovered deep
1:43.2	in the Antarctic Sea. For those who don't know much about this story, give us Shackleton 101.
1:50.5	Okay, well here this would be a quick biographical profile of Irish English ancestry,
1:58.5	came a member of the Royal Navy just to get to the point in terms of his Antarctic experience.
2:08.9	He was an officer with Robert Falcon Scott on the 1901-04 expedition south.
2:19.6	Actually, Shackleton was sent home on that expedition because he got sick. He led his own expedition,
2:26.4	the so-called Nimrod expedition, 1977-1979. He actually made it on land. Of course, this is the heroic
2:38.0	era of Antarctic explorations, the heroic era of exploration generally, and we can unpack what we
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