Search for Shackleton's Endurance called off after loss of submarine

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Search for Shackleton's Endurance called off after loss of submarine

Weddell Sea expedition team loses contact with autonomous vehicle under ice sheet

Kevin Rawlinson
Thu 14 Feb 2019 18.42 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Feb 2019 19.02 GMT

The search for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance, has been called off after extreme weather trapped an underwater vehicle under a sheet of ice.

Explorers working on the Weddell Sea Expedition had hoped to find the Antarctic explorer’s vessel, which was crushed by ice and sank in 1915 during his ultimately unsuccessful attempt at a land crossing of the continent. But severe weather closed in and the sea ice conditions led to the loss of the team’s specialist autonomous underwater vehicle, the AUV7.

“Like Shackleton before us, who described the graveyard of Endurance as ‘the worst portion of the worst sea in the world’, our well laid plans were overcome by the rapidly moving ice, and what Shackleton called ‘the evil conditions of the Weddell Sea’,” the expedition’s director of exploration, Mensun Bound, said.

“We hope our adventure will have engaged young people about the pioneering spirit, courage and fortitude of those who sailed with Endurance to Antarctica.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/14/search-for-shackletons-endurance-called-off-after-loss-of-submarine

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Yikes ! Only *robot* sub, thank goodness. nt

[ZZenith]

2. All who are unfamiliar with Shackleton and the tale of the Endurance

owe it to themselves to learn more about it.

Knowing what they went through has helped me endure many a hardship.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_(1912_ship)

[Sneederbunk]

3. And not a man lost.

[ZZenith]

7. 'Zactly!

Shame about the dogs, though.

That had to be hard because they loved their dogs.

[Tribalceltic]

4. Better Link

[link:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_(1912_ship)|

hope this is a better one

[Eugene]

5. try this link

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_%281912_ship%29

[Tribalceltic]

6. Thank you!

Shackelton's adventures have always fascinated me . First arctic expedition to carry wireless Transmitter, but it did not have enough range to call for a rescue.