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Scott here with another episode of The History and Plug Podcast.

On August 1, 1914, British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew sailed from England

set on making history as the first across the Antarctica.

Their ship never returned from her maiden voyage.

On November 22nd, 1915, his ship, Endurance, disappeared, crushed by ice and swallowed by the Weddell Sea.

Today, nearly everyone is familiar with Shackleton's survival story, his desperate rescue mission, where he and two others sailed in a lifeboat across 800 miles of choppy Archer Quarter, an incredible rescue of all 27 crew members.

But endurance of the ship was thought lost forever, impossible to find, because

of her remote resting place under 10,000 feet of frozen water. That is, until it was finally

discovered on March 5th, 2022. Today's guest is John Shears, the polar geographer who led the

expedition to find the endurance using autonomous underwater vehicles. They were able to capture

incredibly detailed digital scans of the ship that was in remarkably preserved condition.

They found the ship's wheel with all its spokes still in place up the well deck,

Shackleton's private study, and artifacts on the ship, including a telescope and even a sewing machine.

We discussed how the endurance was lost, what it took to rediscover it,

for Shears to launch his own Antarctic mission, and what the endurance means for today.

Shears is also the author of Endurance, The Discovery of Shackleton's legendary ship,

and featured in the companion National Geographic documentary film Endurance.

Hope you enjoyed this discussion.

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