ENDURANCE22: Dan Sets Sail for Antarctica!
Dan Snow's History Hit
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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The expedition has begun and Dan is here to answer your questions about all things Endurance22, the expedition to find Shackleton’s lost shipwreck! For the first time, Dan is the subject of his own podcast as he’s interviewed by History Hit’s producer Mariana Des Forges about all things Endurance. They talk about how he’s feeling about the perilous journey across the southern ocean, what listeners can expect over the coming weeks and he answers your questions.
He also speaks to Mensun Bound of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust who is the lead marine archaeologist on the expedition about his greatest discoveries and what they’re expecting to find when they make it to Antarctica.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Markham Downstone knows history. As you listen to this, I have just set |
| 0:04.6 | sail from Cape Town in South Africa. We are steering south, east towards the weddles |
| 0:10.0 | sea. We got 10-day journey across the southern ocean with the Forklands maritime heritage |
| 0:14.3 | trust on their expedition to find endurance, shackles and missing shipwreck. It is the |
| 0:20.6 | most exciting thing I have ever done. But fear not, the podcast will continue uninterrupted. |
| 0:27.6 | We have quite the month coming up for you in this episode of the podcast. You are going |
| 0:31.2 | to hear from the Forklands maritime heritage trusts, lead marine archaeologist, Mentson |
| 0:36.6 | Bound, veteran of marine archaeology legend. And after that, we have got history hits. |
| 0:42.7 | Mariana Day Forge, she is the producer of this brilliant podcast and she is going to be |
| 0:46.1 | asking me some questions submitted by all of you, not all of you, but many of you on the |
| 0:50.7 | social medias and she has questions asking me about this expedition and what we might |
| 0:54.9 | find and what it is going to be like. So enjoy this very special kick off episode of our |
| 1:01.0 | endurance 22 season. Please go and subscribe to History Hit TV. It is like Netflix for |
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| 1:11.3 | and thousands of podcasts all without the ads go and subscribe if you follow the link |
| 1:15.5 | in the information of this podcast. You can do that two weeks free if you subscribe |
| 1:19.3 | today. In the meantime though, sit back, relax, spare a thought for me as I sit in my tiny |
| 1:25.3 | cabin getting battered by gigantic waves crossing the southern ocean and enjoy this interview |
| 1:30.3 | with Mentson Bound. Mentson, great to have you on the podcast. Great to be here, Dan. We're |
| 1:44.6 | going to be shipmates soon and I know. I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to hear this, |
| 1:49.4 | maybe I know. It's so exciting. Mentson, you are one of the world's leading marine archaeologists |
| 1:55.0 | and you'll bust shipwreck finder. My question to you is have you got the coolest job on |
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