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Ladies and Gentlemen,<\/p>\n

I don’t know how else to say this, so I am going to come straight to the point.<\/p>\n

We have found the wreck of the Endurance<\/i>!<\/p>\n

And we found her 100 years to the day after Shackleton was buried on South Georgia.<\/p>\n

The discovery was made at 1605 hrs GMT on 5th March, 2022, in 3008 meters of water, just over 4 nautical miles southward of Frank Worsley’s famous coordinates for the sinking.<\/p>\n

She is upright, well proud of the seabed and in an excellent state of preservation.\u00a0 You can even see her paintwork and count the fastenings.<\/p>\n

There is some damage to the fo’c’sle deck and part of her starboard side, but otherwise she is largely intact.<\/p>\n

Most remarkable of all was her name – E N D U R A N C E – which arcs across her stern with perfect clarity.\u00a0 And below is the 5-pointed Polaris star.\u00a0 Just as in Hurley’s famous photographs.<\/p>\n

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The stern of the Endurance with the name and emblematic polestar. Image \u00a9 Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust \/ National Geographic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And in the well deck at the stern is the ship’s wheel in perfect condition.\u00a0 The very wheel that gave the kick that send the diminutive, banjo-playing Leonard Hussey flying.<\/p>\n

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Taffrail and ship’s wheel, aft well deck. Image \u00a9 Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust \/ National Geographic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a long career of surveying and excavating historic shipwrecks, I have never seen one as bold and beautiful as this.<\/p>\n

We recorded everything in tiny detail and – as with our discovery of the Scharnhorst<\/i> in 2019 – we touched nothing.<\/p>\n

\"Endurance
Starboard bow. Image \u00a9 Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust \/ National Geographic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The search for the Endurance<\/i> was ten years in the making.\u00a0 It was one of the most ambitious archaeological undertakings ever.\u00a0 It was also a huge international team effort that demonstrates what can be achieved when people work together.<\/p>\n

Shackleton, we like to think, would have been proud of us.<\/p>\n

Mensun Bound
\n(Director of Exploration)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3613,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"yoast_head":"\nEndurance22 Expedition Blog: 9 March 2022 -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/endurance22.org\/expedition-blog\/9-march-2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Endurance22 Expedition Blog: 9 March 2022 -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ladies and Gentlemen, I don’t know how else to say this, so I am going to come straight to the point. 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