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When Darrel Bristow-Bovey was a small boy, one of his father’s stories was that he had sailed with Sir Ernest Shackleton. He hadn’t, of course, as the explorer died before he was born, but it fired the author’s imagination.
A lost cause “Endurance is one of the great survival stories of history,” says historian Dan Snow, reflecting on why he and many others have spent years searching for Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship. “It’s a story of leadership, teamwork and heroism, of nautical skill and of survival against some of the most extreme conditions that humans have faced. […]
By Sean Kingsley for Wreckwatch magazine* – Mensun Bound is a fifth-generation Falkland Islander, born to the sea and its mysteries. By fusing academia with firing the public imagination, he creates buzz after buzz around underwater archaeology. In the 1980s he set up and directed Oxford University MARE, England’s first academic maritime archaeological unit, and in 1994 was appointed the Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St Peter’s College, Oxford.
The ice pilot for the Endurance22 expedition shares his experience locating one of the most famous shipwrecks in history
The story of the SA Agulhas II is fascinating. Because of this ship, South Africa is becoming a leader in aspects of Antarctic science.