ENDURANCE22: Arrival in Antarctica

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Icebergs, albatrosses and growlers- the team have crossed the Antarctic circle! In the first of our episodes recorded from Antarctica, Dan takes you on a tour of the ship and brings you updates with expedition lead John Shears and marine archaeologist Mensun Bound. Hear how the crew are passing the time and the rumours floating around the ship about Dan...

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's history. I'm on the deck of the Agulus II, an Antarctic
0:06.8	research vessel based in South Africa heading down in the Antarctic. I'm recording this
0:12.2	podcast because we have arrived at the ice. Just a little bit early, I was staring out
0:17.8	over the bowels. I saw a line of discolored white and gray on the horizon and we've arrived
0:23.9	at the pack ice. We're about 67 degrees south. We are in the Western Weddle Sea. This is
0:29.9	probably one of the most southerly podcasts ever recorded. History hit coming to you from
0:36.0	inside the Antarctic Circle. In this episode I'm going to be walking around the ship, talking
0:42.0	to a couple of people about the expedition, letting you know how it's going, telling you
0:45.1	about the ship itself. As we prepare to reach the endurance wreck site, put down the autonomous
0:52.6	underwater vehicles and start searching for Shackletons injuries, which was crushed in these
0:58.4	waters in 1915 and sank at the end of that year. If you wish to watch videos of what's
1:05.1	going on, please head to the history hit TikTok. My Instagram page at the history guys
1:09.5	is on the screen page. If you want to watch our long form documentary we're producing
1:13.4	about Shackletons, about his epic journey before and after the endurance sank, then you
1:18.8	get a history hit TV. It's our digital history channel, our Netflix for history. You just
1:23.7	follow the link in the description of this podcast. You click on that, you get two weeks
1:27.6	free if you sign up today. But in the meantime folks, here's my first podcast from the Eglis
1:34.2	in the Weddle Sea. Enjoy.
1:38.7	So I'm just standing on what they call the Monkey Deck. High up in the ship's superstructure,
1:50.9	I'm looking at, I can see a big tabular iceberg there. It's what Shackleton called a tabular
1:55.1	iceberg. Probably three miles away. It's enormous. I mean it's as big as the small island off
2:01.4	the coast of Scotland. You could happily live on there. We've also got these little growlers
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