![]() ![]() “Chai and Jimmy are bold, ambitious and nuanced storytellers, perfectly cast to bring this gripping story to life, along with their exceptionally talented co-director Nat Hewit, who has a unique first-hand perspective as part of the Endurance22 expedition. “We are delighted to share this inspiring story of exploration, grit and perseverance with the world,” said Carolyn Bernstein, executive vice president of Documentary Films at National Geographic. Production is underway on the documentary, National Geographic said in a statement. In the meantime, Endurance herself came to rest 10,000 feet below the ice, only to be located last March. Every one of them were rescued eventually after an ordeal of four months. That disastrous development set off one of history’s most extraordinary stories of adventure and survival as the crew battled the elements to stay alive. ![]() She then gave one quick dive and the ice closed over her forever.” As one crewman wrote, “She went down bow first, her stern raised in the air. Then, on November 27, 1915, Endurance sank. The ship became trapped in sea ice, forcing the crew to quit the vessel and set up camp on an ice floe. Shackleton and his crew of 27 set sail in late 1914 on an exploratory mission endorsed by Winston Churchill, then Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty. “We are overwhelmed by our good fortune in having located and captured images of Endurance,” he said.Map of the Sir Ernest Shackleton expedition in Antarctica onboard the Endurance Getty Images The hybrid vehicles combine the technologies of Remote Operating Vehicles (ROVs) – always linked to the surface – with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) – capable of operating without such links and are fitted with high-definition cameras and side-scan imaging capabilities.Īccording to Mensun Bound, the find is a milestone in polar history. “This has been the most complex subsea project ever undertaken, with several world records achieved to ensure the safe detection of Endurance,” he said. Nico Vincent, manager of the Subsea Project that deployed two SAAB Sabertooth subsea drones from the mothership to explore the wreck, described the difficulties faced by the image capture team working in the same treacherous waters that proved so fatal to Endurance back in 1915. The name of Shackleton’s ship still clearly visible.In this respect her loss was the start of something far bigger that I have a deep personal connection with, and that I think we have much to learn from.”ĭespite sitting on the bottom of the Weddell Sea for more than a century, Endurance is in a remarkable state of preservation with the name of the ship clearly visible in the photographs and video captured by the expedition’s underwater technology. For me personally seeing the Endurance again is a reminder of the incredible events that unfolded after she sank, and it’s Shackleton’s leadership and the resilience of his men surviving against the longest of odds that are the real legacy of Endurance’s final voyage. “That she has been found also brings closure to some, whilst revealing the story to others who perhaps hadn’t heard it. “The quest to find her speaks to the fact that the spirit of exploration is alive and well and the ghostly images of the ship so well preserved somehow bring us closer to those who sailed on her over a century ago. “I think the discovery of Endurance is incredible at so many levels,” Tim said after the discovery was announced. Tim Jarvis AM recreated Shackleton’s famous escape from Antarctica in 2013. ![]() It’s been immortalised in books and on film and, in 2013, Australian Geographic Society advisory committee member and past Adventurer of the Year Tim Jarvis AM faithfully recreated the famous escape. The story of the 28-man crew’s escape – dragging cumbersome lifeboats across the ice, followed by a perilous sea crossing to inhospitable Elephant Island and Shackleton’s heroic 1300km sail to South Georgia in a leaky lifeboat – and the subsequent rescue of the stranded men in August 1916 without loss of life is the stuff of legend. Photo by Frank Hurley, reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Australia Endurance sinks trapped in the ice of the Weddell Sea in November 1915. The Endurance was trapped by sea-ice in January 1915, early in Shackleton’s famous 1914-1917 expedition, ultimately leading to the abandonment of both the ship and the attempt to cross the Antarctic continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. ![]()
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