ENDURANCE22: Searching for the Shipwreck

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The search for the wreck of the sunken Endurance is well underway. Find out more about the submersibles, equipped with 4k cameras that can scan the seafloor hundreds of metres into the darkness and hear from the stellar crew and ice pilots who are responsible for keeping everyone on board safe in the Weddell Sea ice.

But, as you've heard throughout this series, Antarctica is a harsh and volatile environment- right now the temperature is dropping and the ice is closing in around SS Agulhas II. Dan sends the podcast team a concerning message...

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0:00.0	In 21st November 1915, endurance made history when she sank here in the Antarctic.
0:12.0	Today we're making history as we send down that vehicle to see if we can find her.
0:18.0	I just took the tevern out and it is under its own power and it is diving.
0:28.0	White waters, if I put her stow it up, the day after endurance sank,
0:32.0	Shackleton ripped the front cover off his Bible that had a note from Queen Alexander in it.
0:37.0	She quoted some 107 and she said,
0:41.0	may you see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep. I'm not really just mad but that's what I'm drones off to do now.
0:59.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History that I'm talking to you from the deck of Agulus 2.
1:05.0	This is the South African icebreaker that's carrying endurance 22, the mission to the Antarctic to find Shackleton's lost shipwreck endurance in the weddle sea.
1:16.0	I'm on the deck now and you might, it's not my standard usual because I'm not in the howling wind and that's because we have driven ourselves up on a large ice flow.
1:24.0	It's probably 600-800 meters across, surrounded by a bit of open water.
1:30.0	We finally after 3,000 miles have reached our destination. In this episode of the podcast I will be talking to people on the ship about the search.
1:38.0	I'll be talking more about the weddle sea, about Shackleton's endurance and various other bits of the journey.
1:43.0	If you want to look at pictures of this journey as well as listen to audio you can do so the history hit social media feeds,
1:49.0	the TikTok, the Instagram, Twitter, various other places.
1:54.0	All you can subscribe to History Hit TV, our digital history channel, Netflix for History where our documentary on Shackleton that I'm filming down here will be up very soon.
2:02.0	I've reconcluded part one and we're well into part two.
2:06.0	I can say while I'm standing down here on the frozen Antarctic in the weddle sea, I'm looking out.
2:14.0	I cannot believe this History Hit journey started five or six years ago. Me talking into my phone in a travel lodge somewhere, I can't remember where it was in Britain.
2:26.0	I never thought years later I'd be broadcasting, podcasting, filming on a gigantic exhibition to the Antarctic with hundreds of thousands of millions of people all over the world interacting with the stuff that team history hit down here are producing.
2:40.0	I have to pinch myself, I'm incredibly lucky and I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the listeners this podcast.
2:45.0	The subscribers to History Hit TV, so thank you all as I've said before but thank you all very much indeed.
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