ENDURANCE22: Questions & Reflections

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🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

To mark the end of a truly epic journey, Dan wanted to hear from you -the listeners- those that have dedicatedly followed the story of Endurance22. Find out the answers to your questions as Dan responds candidly to the things that you all wanted to know.

In the concluding episode of the Endurance22 series, we also share Dan’s conversation with John and Viv James, the sons of Endurance veteran Reginald James. Although Dan spoke with John and Viv before the shipwreck was discovered, the meaning of the search for Endurance was evident even then.

Finally, Dan reflects on the experience of Endurance22 and the incredible people that he has met along the way.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Downsnow's History. I'm currently about a thousand miles west
0:05.6	southwest of Cape Town. We're making our way back. We've got 13 knots of wind blowing
0:10.7	on our port side at the moment. Ship is rocking quite violently from one side to the other.
0:15.4	There's a lot of people confined to their cabins at the moment with a bit of sea sickness.
0:20.1	But we're coming home. We're coming home from endurance 22. Spirit's a high. We found
0:24.3	endurance. The team are thrilled. And people all over the world have been getting in touch,
0:29.1	enjoying the pictures and videos shot on the seabed. It's been such an exciting project to be
0:34.4	part of. This is the final episode. This is the last time you're going to hear me talking about
0:37.9	endurance 22 for the moment. No more plans to do so. So we just wanted to wrap up a few things.
0:42.2	I wanted to answer some of your questions. But I also wanted to hear from the family, some of
0:46.3	the family, some of the descendants. Now, interestingly, there are two directors and two children left
0:52.4	of someone on that voyage. John and Viv James are the sons of Reginald James. He was a scientist.
0:57.6	He was a young physicist, taken aboard by Shackleton. They remembered their dad talking about the
1:03.6	exhibition as you'll hear, fascinating stuff. I actually talked to them on a zoom from the ship,
1:08.7	as we were searching. So before we knew we'd found the ship, but I wanted to fill them in on the
1:12.8	story and I recorded that conversation, which I'm now going to broadcast out to all of you.
1:17.8	Reginald James was on the endurance. I've seen he was frozen, he lives on the ice,
1:21.7	and then he made it to Elephant Island where he stayed. He was not one of those in the small boat,
1:26.0	James Caird, that went to South Georgia. He waited on Elephant and was rescued and went on to have
1:31.0	a distinguished career. He ended up in South Africa as a senior figure in the university. They're in
1:37.5	Cape Town. I'm talking to his kids who are now most gentlemen have quite advanced years.
1:43.4	Was a great way of reminding myself that this story is still very fresh, very important,
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