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Dan Snow's History Hit

ENDURANCE22: Dan's Diary #03

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

The Endurance22 crew have made it to the Weddell Sea and the point where they believe Shackleton’s ship sunk! It’s a rocky start as they begin the search using the AUV drones that scan the seafloor


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0:00.0

Well, after all the excitement of placing the drones into the water, predicts me how

0:09.8

suppose the good feelings that it lasts for a long because within a few minutes of reaching

0:13.9

it's severed at 3,000 meters, the drone started behaving irregularly, it was struggling,

0:20.0

it was struggling to maintain its course and position and it was clear that one of the

0:24.6

propellers, one of the propulsion systems was malfunctioning.

0:27.4

So it came, it came all the way back up to the surface and then we had some issues

0:32.7

retrieving it and then we fixed the payload, put a new drive system in, we sent it back

0:39.3

down and that time we reached about a thousand meters at which point it freaked out.

0:42.4

That's the best way I think I can use to describe what happened.

0:45.7

It freaked out and it was not happy and we had to haul it back up by its tether.

0:50.2

We have now, the sawed engine is all the way from Sweden, the world's two most relaxed

0:56.1

and awesome guys, quietly.

0:58.1

Whilst everyone, people like me, the Anglo-Saxons were panicking running around like Linnisix,

1:02.2

they took it apart, they looked at it, they fixed it, now it's been put back in the

1:06.1

water a third time, it's now on the bottom, we're all gathered, looking at screens, looking

1:10.5

at data, coming up, it seems to be working, we are, as of 10 minutes ago, we are now serving

1:17.7

the sea bed, this is very exciting news.

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