{"id":3621,"date":"2022-03-09T07:21:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T07:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/endurance22.org\/?post_type=expedition-blog&p=3621"},"modified":"2022-03-09T07:21:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T07:21:46","slug":"9-march-2022","status":"publish","type":"expedition-blog","link":"https:\/\/endurance22.org\/expedition-blog\/9-march-2022","title":{"rendered":"9 March 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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