Endurance is Found

One of the most important maritime shipwreck discoveries ever, and certainly of this century, Shackleton’s Endurance from his historic Trans-Antarctic expedition, has been located. Hats off to the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, the ship S.A. Agulhas II, its crew, and the SAAB submersible that discovered her at 3008 m, only about four miles from where she was last sited by Frank Worsley in 1915 before her tragic demise. And of course the 10 M USD from the anonymous donor to sponsor the expedition didn’t hurt. It is of course tragic that this discovery takes place while a war is being fought in Ukraine; unfortunately the last time the Endurance was last seen by the outside world was when she shipped south from Australia: December 1914, WWI. When will we every learn?