How They Found the Shipwreck Endurance
Unsung Science
CBS News
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In 1915, British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s historic expedition to Antarctica stalled when floating ice trapped, crushed, and finally sank his ship, Endurance. Shackleton’s men survived 21 months on the ice, alone and freezing, and became one of the most incredible adventure stories ever recorded. The ship itself, Endurance, was not seen again for 106 years. Every attempt to find it wound up thwarted by exactly the same enemy: crushing sheets of pack ice. Finally, in 2022, an international team of explorers and scientists found the wreck—and it’s in absolutely pristine condition. This is the story of how they found it.
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| 0:00.0 | Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antarctica is one of the most astonishing |
| 0:07.8 | adventure stories of all time, a ship crushed and sunk by surging walls of ice. |
| 0:14.2 | No ship built by human hands could have withstood the strain. |
| 0:18.5 | She went down Bows first, her stern raised in the air and the ice closed over her forever. |
| 0:26.8 | A crew stranded for almost two years, an 800 mile journey by lifeboat, a heroic rescue, |
| 0:34.3 | and then a century of trying to find the shipwreck. |
| 0:38.6 | In 2022, an international team of explorers found Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance. |
| 0:45.8 | And today, they'll tell us how they did it. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm David Pogue, and this is Unsung Science. |
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| 1:02.7 | Few things are more devastating than a loved one that's gone missing. |
| 1:06.5 | From Wondry, the vanished is a podcast where host Marissa Jones tells stories of missing |
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| 1:24.2 | Season 2 Episode 7 How They Found The Shipwreck Endurance |
| 1:29.7 | Could somebody please tell me how the story of Ernest Shackleton has never become a movie? |
| 1:35.6 | I mean, how is this not the greatest adventure ever told? |
| 1:39.9 | 1914 British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton plans to become the first man to cross the |
| 1:46.6 | Antarctic continent. |
| 1:48.4 | As he later wrote in his memoir, read here by a voice actor Tim Redmond. |
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