Scientists have found and filmed one of the greatest ever undiscovered shipwrecks 107 years after it sank.
The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was found at the weekend at the bottom of the Weddell Sea.
The ship was crushed by sea-ice and sank in 1915, forcing Shackleton and his men to make an astonishing escape on foot and in small boats.
Video of the remains show Endurance to be in remarkable condition.
Even though it has been sitting in 3km (10,000ft) of water for over a century, it looks just like it did on the November day it went down.
Its timbers, although disrupted, are still very much together, and the name - Endurance - is clearly visible on the stern.
"Without any exaggeration this is the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen - by far," said marine archaeologist Mensun Bound, who is on the discovery expedition and has now fulfilled a dream ambition in his near 50-year career.
"It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation," he told BBC News.
The find comes on the 100th anniversary of Sir Ernest Shackleton's death.
The Endurance - Found 107 Years Later
posted on 9/3/22
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It makes me wonder why they still can't find MH370, despite knowing roughly where it is...
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Never existed.
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Having lost 20 work colleagues on that flight I beg to differ.
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That's awful pal. Were you close to any of them?? I must say I find it disgraceful that, despite the fact 239 people died, they just gave up the search. Totally wrong to do so. They have to find that plane, the world needs to know what happened and families need closure.
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The theory which seems to make the most sense is one of the pilots who had shown strong signs of depression (like the one who crashed the Germanwings plane in 2015), once his co-pilot had left the cockpit activated a manual cabin depressurization which would've killed everybody there pretty quickly.
Once he did this, he turned off all the relevant tracking systems and stayed away from radars too and flew over the Indian Ocean until the plane ran out of fuel. The reason for this was to create ambiguity for the crash cause thus avoiding the blame being placed on him and then his family could benefit from the life insurance.
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comment by Culèr - LFC For The Quad 2022 (U9489)
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comment by Silver (U6112)
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comment by HB Fash (U21935)
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comment by Culèr - LFC For The Quad 2022 (U9489)
posted 15 minutes ago
It makes me wonder why they still can't find MH370, despite knowing roughly where it is...
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Never existed.
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Having lost 20 work colleagues on that flight I beg to differ.
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That's awful pal. Were you close to any of them?? I must say I find it disgraceful that, despite the fact 239 people died, they just gave up the search. Totally wrong to do so. They have to find that plane, the world needs to know what happened and families need closure.
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The theory which seems to make the most sense is one of the pilots who had shown strong signs of depression (like the one who crashed the Germanwings plane in 2015), once his co-pilot had left the cockpit activated a manual cabin depressurization which would've killed everybody there pretty quickly.
Once he did this, he turned off all the relevant tracking systems and stayed away from radars too and flew over the Indian Ocean until the plane ran out of fuel. The reason for this was to create ambiguity for the crash cause thus avoiding the blame being placed on him and then his family could benefit from the life insurance.
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That seems a feasible answer.
Funny how it's hardly ever mentioned these days.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60662541
Great story, great man.
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The second finest ship
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The second finest ship
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T’was on the good ship Venus….
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comment by Culèr - LFC For The Quad 2022 (U9489)
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comment by Silver (U6112)
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comment by HB Fash (U21935)
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comment by Culèr - LFC For The Quad 2022 (U9489)
posted 15 minutes ago
It makes me wonder why they still can't find MH370, despite knowing roughly where it is...
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Never existed.
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Having lost 20 work colleagues on that flight I beg to differ.
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That's awful pal. Were you close to any of them?? I must say I find it disgraceful that, despite the fact 239 people died, they just gave up the search. Totally wrong to do so. They have to find that plane, the world needs to know what happened and families need closure.
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The theory which seems to make the most sense is one of the pilots who had shown strong signs of depression (like the one who crashed the Germanwings plane in 2015), once his co-pilot had left the cockpit activated a manual cabin depressurization which would've killed everybody there pretty quickly.
Once he did this, he turned off all the relevant tracking systems and stayed away from radars too and flew over the Indian Ocean until the plane ran out of fuel. The reason for this was to create ambiguity for the crash cause thus avoiding the blame being placed on him and then his family could benefit from the life insurance.
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I’ve read three books on it and in my opinion it was pilot suicide. The co-pilot even tried to make a mobile phone call just minutes after it disappeared from radar.
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comment by Culèr - LFC For The Quad 2022 (U9489)
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comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
comment by HB Fash (U21935)
posted 46 minutes ago
comment by Culèr - LFC For The Quad 2022 (U9489)
posted 15 minutes ago
It makes me wonder why they still can't find MH370, despite knowing roughly where it is...
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Never existed.
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Having lost 20 work colleagues on that flight I beg to differ.
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That's awful pal. Were you close to any of them?? I must say I find it disgraceful that, despite the fact 239 people died, they just gave up the search. Totally wrong to do so. They have to find that plane, the world needs to know what happened and families need closure.
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The theory which seems to make the most sense is one of the pilots who had shown strong signs of depression (like the one who crashed the Germanwings plane in 2015), once his co-pilot had left the cockpit activated a manual cabin depressurization which would've killed everybody there pretty quickly.
Once he did this, he turned off all the relevant tracking systems and stayed away from radars too and flew over the Indian Ocean until the plane ran out of fuel. The reason for this was to create ambiguity for the crash cause thus avoiding the blame being placed on him and then his family could benefit from the life insurance.
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That seems a feasible answer.
Funny how it's hardly ever mentioned these days.
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The team that sat next to me were close work colleagues and were badly affected and would greet about it years later. I only had dealings with one and he was an @rsehole. Hey ho.
The conspiracy theories were laughable. Vast majority were production planners training on a new information system. Fack all to do with chip design, development, defence or patents.
Company had rules covering the number of officers (VP or above) or ‘key’ employees (by technical grade) that could fly together but fack all for pleb levels. Hey ho.
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It’s a good story about the endurance, found Franklyn’s doomed expedition to the NW passage much more interesting, where they got stuck waiting for the ice to clear, but happened to be in the worst winter up there for a long time. No survivors. Runours of cannibalism. Dodgy provisions that corners were cut on and possibly induced metal poisoning to the crew and maybe made them lose grip on reality I believe they found that ship recently too.
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Then there was Captain Scott who was just beaten to be the first one who made it to the south pole by the Norwegian, Amundsen.
Demoralized by there discovery, they all perished and never made it back. However Scott was remembered as a hero, whilst Shackleton became somewhat forgotten for many decades.
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NW Passage stories are a hidden gem.
Then again, so is Across The Andes by Frog - Michael Palin.