What the Ice Gets, the Ice Keeps

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National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In 1915 Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, sank off the coast of Antarctica, stranding the crew on drifting sea ice. Shackleton’s desperate rescue mission saved all 28 men. But for more than a century afterward, the location of Endurance eluded archaeologists—until this year. National Geographic photographer Esther Horvath was there, and recounts the moment when the ship was located 10,000 feet beneath the polar ice. For more information on this episode, visit natgeo.com/overheard. Want more? Read the inside story of the discovery of Endurance, including reactions from the lead researchers and Horvath’s photos from the farthest reaches of the Southern Ocean. See rare photos from another fabled Antarctic voyage: Robert Falcon Scott’s race to the South Pole in 1912. Also explore: Technology has made it easier to find sunken ships and their undiscovered treasures. See how preservationists protect them—and why “finders keepers” doesn’t apply. If you like what you hear and want to support more content like this, please consider a National Geographic subscription. Go to natgeo.com/exploremore to subscribe today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What are conditions like in the wettle sea?
0:11.0	It's a landscape of beautiful, white, large ice flows.
0:18.0	In the first months of 2022, Esther Horvoth sailed through the frigid waters of the wettle
0:23.0	sea off the coast of Antarctica.
0:25.9	Here's a photographer, and she was documenting life-aborder research that can break through
0:30.5	ice several feet thick.
0:32.3	Sea has constantly moved and you have to navigate between these moving ice flows and sometimes
0:39.5	it is, you don't see water in between and you just see an endless white landscape and
0:46.9	it almost feels that you look at an icy or snowy land and then you see as the ship moves
0:55.4	forward you see how it breaks and then you see, you know, it's actually an ocean.
1:00.8	More than a century before, the great polar explorer Ernest Shackleton sailed the same waters.
1:06.4	In 1915, the sea ice trapped his ship, the endurance.
1:11.2	Shackleton's crew watched as the ice squeezed endurance tighter and tighter, breaking its
1:16.4	wooden hull, and they saw endurance sink into the polar sea.
1:20.7	Shackleton told his men what the ice gets, the ice keeps, and for more than 100 years,
1:27.0	that was true.
1:32.8	I'm Jacob Pinter, and this is Overhurt, a show where we eavesdrop on the wild conversations
1:37.4	we have at Natuio and follow them to the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world.
1:42.8	This week, inside the search for endurance.
1:46.1	After this year, a team of researchers found it on an Antarctic seabed almost two miles
1:51.1	deep.
1:53.7	But first, adventure is never far away with a free one-month trial to Natuio Digital.
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