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Shackleton's ship "Endurance" has been found!
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This is a great story. Over 2 miles beneath the ocean's surface. The pics are incredible.
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Very cool.
The video is really something.
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No one will argue that is not the Endurance. Very cool to see it. I guess it would cost eleventy gazillion bucks to raise it, so I hope they leave it in place. It would be a cool museum pies however.
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The Endurance movie is very good.
The book is an incredible read. |
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The seamanship of those guys was epic stuff.
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For anyone not familiar with the epic journey of Shackleton and the rescue of his crew:
https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/Ernest_Shackleton_map_time_line.php
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Amazing shape. I assume a big part of it is the temp in that region. I know that the bottom of the ocean is cold, but I have to assume that it's colder at the poles than not.
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Eleventy gazillion bucks is chump change to Elon, et al  What a cool find! |
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It's amazing that no one died.
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why would anyone want to go to a place as cold as that? Gotta be out of your mind.
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03-09-2022, 09:54 AM
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I watched the Imax version of the documentary when I was in Victoria, BC. Bought the coffee table book with all the photos from the glass plate negatives that they were able to recover and save. It is a fascinating story to be sure.
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03-09-2022, 10:14 AM
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I just watched a couple documentaries about Shackelton this past weekend. My wife read a couple of books about it. So, I found some shows on youtube
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03-09-2022, 10:18 AM
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Thanks for posting this...Shackelton's story is one of those fascinating ones. An amazing find.
One interesting bit to me was the mention of no wood growing there, therefore no sea beasties that eat wood, thus the preserved condition.
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03-09-2022, 10:22 AM
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Once you start in reading this...it's hard to stop.
 (280 pages)
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Wow, what a find. I didn't think they'd be successful. I can't imagine what it must have felt like to have been one of the men, stuck in the middle of such inhospitable nowhere, and to watch that ship go under.
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