Under the outstanding leadership of Dr John Shears, they have found Endurance. “The spotlight falls today on Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration, and Nico Vincent, Subsea Project Manager. Today’s celebrations are naturally tempered by world events, and everybody involved in Endurance22 keeps those affected by these continuing shocking events in their thoughts and prayers. “Our objectives for Endurance22 were to locate, survey and film the wreck, but also to conduct important scientific research, and to run an exceptional outreach programme. Image © Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust / National Geographicĭonald Lamont, Chairman of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, said:
Taffrail and ship’s wheel, aft well deck.
The wreck is protected as a Historic Site and Monument under the Antarctic Treaty, ensuring that whilst the wreck is being surveyed and filmed it will not be touched or disturbed in any way. Knowledge Bengu, using Saab’s Sabertooth hybrid underwater search vehicles.
Agulhas II, owned by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment and under Master, Capt. The team worked from the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. One hundred years after Shackleton’s death, Endurance was found at a depth of 3008 metres in the Weddell Sea, within the search area defined by the expedition team before its departure from Cape Town, and approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by Captain Worsley. Was this an aberration peculiar to 2022 or part of a trend?… If the trend continues, we won’t be able to depend much longer on that hard carapace of perennial sea ice to protect the Endurance.The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to confirm that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship which has not been seen since it was crushed by the ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915. This time it was mainly thin first-year ice, and we were never under serious threat of becoming ice-bound. In Wreckwatch, he compares the environmental conditions on both expeditions, shocked by a dramatic deterioration: “There was very little of the old, thick, gnarled, multi-year ice and there was hardly any of the muscularity or pressure experienced in 2019. His warnings are sounded in an interview in the latest issue of Wreckwatch magazine, which focuses this month on ice wrecks.īound, director of exploration on the Endurance22 project for the Falklands Maritime Heritage trust, also headed the 2019 search, which was called off after an underwater vehicle became trapped beneath the ice. It is in such an astonishing state of preservation that details such as its bell and rudder can be seen clearly.īut Bound fears for their survival: “What if an observation class submersible had a manipulating arm tucked away beneath its bonnet? Would they be able to resist snatching the bell?” Shackleton’s vessel was discovered in March, making polar history in solving one of the great maritime mysteries. Mensun Bound: ‘We won’t be able to depend much longer on that hard carapace of perennial sea ice to protect the Endurance.’ Photograph: handout
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