Shackleton’s Ice Ship Found
HISTORY This Week
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🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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March 5, 2022. After 107 years, explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, has been found two miles under the icy Antarctic waters. Shackleton had set out to be the first to walk across Antarctica, but ran into trouble almost immediately. The Endurance became stuck in the polar ice, which gradually crushed the ship until it sank below the surface. This sparked one of the great survival stories in history, and now that the ship has been discovered, this epic tale is once again coming to light. We sat down with Brad Borkan, an expert on the history of Antarctic exploration to understand who Shackleton was, how his mission evolved, and what we can learn from this groundbreaking discovery.
Don’t forget to tune in to Shackleton’s Endurance: The Lost Ice Ship Found, Tuesday, March 22 at 10/9c on HISTORY.
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| 0:41.0 | History this week. |
| 0:44.0 | Actually, history two weeks ago. |
| 0:47.0 | Because on March 5th, 2022, the endurance and Arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's long-lost ship was found. |
| 0:56.0 | There's going to be a special about this discovery tonight on the history channel. |
| 0:59.0 | But here at History this week, we wanted to understand more about this saga, |
| 1:03.0 | who Shackleton was, why his ship sank, and why this discovery is so important. |
| 1:08.0 | So we spoke to Brad Borkin, who has written extensively on this story. |
| 1:12.0 | When we hopped on our Zoom call, I noticed that Brad's profile image was him on the ice in Antarctica. |
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| 1:24.0 | That's me in Antarctica in November 2019. |
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