| Endurance. 13:32 - Mar 9 with 1077 views | jeera |
Bit of Brasso and she's good to go. |  |
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| Endurance. on 13:41 - Mar 9 with 1051 views | ThisIsMyUsername |
Everyone should read 'Endurance' by Alfred Lansing.
One of the best books I've ever read (multiple times). |  |
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| Endurance. on 13:50 - Mar 9 with 1033 views | leitrimblue |
It's in incredible condition innit. Guess that freezing cold water would help in it's preservation |  | | |
| Endurance. on 13:54 - Mar 9 with 1016 views | WD19 |
The Russians will have her up and patrolling the Black Sea before you know it......... |  | | |
| Endurance. on 14:20 - Mar 9 with 994 views | Swansea_Blue |
Stunning pictures aren’t they. I wonder if technology with advance enough to the point that someone tries to recover her? |  |
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| Endurance. on 14:20 - Mar 9 with 995 views | Churchman |
It’s amazing. I never thought they’d find Endurance and if they did, that it’d be a pile of sticks.
The story of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-16 is truly fascinating. Challenge, optimism, skill, mistakes, poor choices, good choices, bad luck, leadership, endurance, the most astonishing feat of navigation just about ever (Worsley), more suffering, survival and rescue.
What a story. All the people survived (RIP Mrs Chippy the carpenter’s cat and of course the dogs), primarily due to the incredible leadership of Shackleton. He’s somebody I’d love to have met. He’s actually buried on South Georgia where he died of a heart attack in 1922, 100 years to the day that Endurance was found. Weird!
There are plenty of books on it for those interested and the Branagh docudrama from about 20 years ago isn’t bad. |  | | |
| Endurance. on 15:30 - Mar 9 with 935 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
| Endurance. on 14:20 - Mar 9 by Churchman |
It’s amazing. I never thought they’d find Endurance and if they did, that it’d be a pile of sticks.
The story of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-16 is truly fascinating. Challenge, optimism, skill, mistakes, poor choices, good choices, bad luck, leadership, endurance, the most astonishing feat of navigation just about ever (Worsley), more suffering, survival and rescue.
What a story. All the people survived (RIP Mrs Chippy the carpenter’s cat and of course the dogs), primarily due to the incredible leadership of Shackleton. He’s somebody I’d love to have met. He’s actually buried on South Georgia where he died of a heart attack in 1922, 100 years to the day that Endurance was found. Weird!
There are plenty of books on it for those interested and the Branagh docudrama from about 20 years ago isn’t bad. |
I assume based on absolutely no scientific knowledge whatsoever that the cold has helped preserve it?
It's a remarkable find.....up next Amelia Earharts plane |  |
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| Endurance. on 16:12 - Mar 9 with 892 views | jeera |
| Endurance. on 15:30 - Mar 9 by BlueandTruesince82 |
I assume based on absolutely no scientific knowledge whatsoever that the cold has helped preserve it?
It's a remarkable find.....up next Amelia Earharts plane |
"the cold has helped preserve it" is what they said on the telly.
They even found some carrots perfectly preserved in the galley. [Post edited 9 Mar 2022 16:26]
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| Endurance. on 16:22 - Mar 9 with 874 views | Churchman |
| Endurance. on 15:30 - Mar 9 by BlueandTruesince82 |
I assume based on absolutely no scientific knowledge whatsoever that the cold has helped preserve it?
It's a remarkable find.....up next Amelia Earharts plane |
They’ve got to find SMS Gneisenau first, sunk along with sister ship SMS Scharnhorst in Dec 1914 at the Battle of the Falklands. The wreck of Scharnhorst was found in 2019 upright and intact, bar the superstructure. | | | |
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| Endurance. on 17:35 - Mar 9 with 814 views | Ftnfwest |
| Endurance. on 14:20 - Mar 9 by Churchman |
It’s amazing. I never thought they’d find Endurance and if they did, that it’d be a pile of sticks.
The story of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-16 is truly fascinating. Challenge, optimism, skill, mistakes, poor choices, good choices, bad luck, leadership, endurance, the most astonishing feat of navigation just about ever (Worsley), more suffering, survival and rescue.
What a story. All the people survived (RIP Mrs Chippy the carpenter’s cat and of course the dogs), primarily due to the incredible leadership of Shackleton. He’s somebody I’d love to have met. He’s actually buried on South Georgia where he died of a heart attack in 1922, 100 years to the day that Endurance was found. Weird!
There are plenty of books on it for those interested and the Branagh docudrama from about 20 years ago isn’t bad. |
The book about his previous polar expedition is very good. Was the one that preceded Scott's and achieved substantially more than any previous expedition. They got within 90 miles of the pole before Shackleton called it a day. Often said thereafter that whilst Scott and his men achieved the 'glory' Shackleton and his at least lived.. |  | | |
| Endurance. on 17:56 - Mar 9 with 790 views | Churchman |
| Endurance. on 17:35 - Mar 9 by Ftnfwest |
The book about his previous polar expedition is very good. Was the one that preceded Scott's and achieved substantially more than any previous expedition. They got within 90 miles of the pole before Shackleton called it a day. Often said thereafter that whilst Scott and his men achieved the 'glory' Shackleton and his at least lived.. |
Yes, I’ve read about that expedition. It was nearly the end of him. The trials of being a polar explorer were unreal. Nothing was known about diet really. They ate a lot of pemmican/biscuit (hoosh) and anything they could shoot - protein, few carbohydrates, few vitamins. In Shackleton’s case they also ate the dogs. So basically, their bodies after a while began to fall apart in those conditions.
I’ve skied in -30 degrees centigrade and walked about in it in proper gear. Not for long, I can tell you. I’ve no idea how those explorers did it in the kit they had in temperatures often worse than that and all the hazards with crevasses etc.
Of the explorers, Amundsen seems to have been the most up to date if that’s the right word, which is primarily why he made the South Pole and Scott died. Proper use of dogs and ski etc. Scott and indeed Shackleton had a tad of we are British, we will improvise about them. Fascinating people. Shackleton in particular fascinated me because he was a phenomenal leader, charismatic, brave, but also fundamentally flawed in so many ways. [Post edited 9 Mar 2022 19:58]
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| Endurance. on 18:12 - Mar 9 with 781 views | factual_blue |
I've just seen the footage on the BBC website.
Clearly faked.
It's a model in a tank of water. |  |
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| Endurance. on 19:14 - Mar 9 with 724 views | Eireannach_gorm |
| Endurance. on 14:20 - Mar 9 by Churchman |
It’s amazing. I never thought they’d find Endurance and if they did, that it’d be a pile of sticks.
The story of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-16 is truly fascinating. Challenge, optimism, skill, mistakes, poor choices, good choices, bad luck, leadership, endurance, the most astonishing feat of navigation just about ever (Worsley), more suffering, survival and rescue.
What a story. All the people survived (RIP Mrs Chippy the carpenter’s cat and of course the dogs), primarily due to the incredible leadership of Shackleton. He’s somebody I’d love to have met. He’s actually buried on South Georgia where he died of a heart attack in 1922, 100 years to the day that Endurance was found. Weird!
There are plenty of books on it for those interested and the Branagh docudrama from about 20 years ago isn’t bad. |
... and he was born down the road from me. |  | | |
| Endurance. on 19:18 - Mar 9 with 712 views | Churchman |
| Endurance. on 19:14 - Mar 9 by Eireannach_gorm |
... and he was born down the road from me. |
TremendousðŸ‘ðŸ». He very much had an Irish/Anglo heritage and spoke with an Irish lilt. Depending on who he was trying to charm (and he was a charismatic man), he would describe himself as Irish, English or both. Handy eh. | | | |
| Endurance. on 19:55 - Mar 9 with 674 views | azuremerlangus |
I have had the privilege to visit the great man’s grave twice (1997 & 2008) in his final resting place in South Georgia…
We had "suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders." We had reached the naked soul of man.
For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a Winter Journey, Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen: and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time. |  |
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| Endurance. on 20:38 - Mar 9 with 622 views | Ftnfwest |
| Endurance. on 17:56 - Mar 9 by Churchman |
Yes, I’ve read about that expedition. It was nearly the end of him. The trials of being a polar explorer were unreal. Nothing was known about diet really. They ate a lot of pemmican/biscuit (hoosh) and anything they could shoot - protein, few carbohydrates, few vitamins. In Shackleton’s case they also ate the dogs. So basically, their bodies after a while began to fall apart in those conditions.
I’ve skied in -30 degrees centigrade and walked about in it in proper gear. Not for long, I can tell you. I’ve no idea how those explorers did it in the kit they had in temperatures often worse than that and all the hazards with crevasses etc.
Of the explorers, Amundsen seems to have been the most up to date if that’s the right word, which is primarily why he made the South Pole and Scott died. Proper use of dogs and ski etc. Scott and indeed Shackleton had a tad of we are British, we will improvise about them. Fascinating people. Shackleton in particular fascinated me because he was a phenomenal leader, charismatic, brave, but also fundamentally flawed in so many ways. [Post edited 9 Mar 2022 19:58]
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Fascinating as well to try to read his/their minds when they called it so close. Of course it wasn’t just 90 miles, it was 180 in reality that they couldn’t have made. | | | |
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