{"id":963,"date":"2021-12-08T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T16:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/endurance22.org\/?page_id=963"},"modified":"2023-03-29T12:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T12:54:13","slug":"marine-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/endurance22.org\/exploration\/marine-archaeology","title":{"rendered":"Marine Archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"
Falklands-born Mensun Bound, a Trustee of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, was Director of Exploration on the Expedition. With long experience in marine archaeology, he was responsible for the discovery in 2019 of the wreck of SMS Scharnhorst<\/em>, sunk in the Battle of the Falklands in 1914, a project also organised and funded by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Based on information provided by the Weddell Sea Expedition in 2019, the wreck of Endurance<\/em> was declared a Historic Site and Monument under the Antarctic Treaty System. The Endurance22 Expedition\u2019s activities involved no intrusion into the wreck and the Sabertooth AUVs are not fitted with any devices capable of actions such as digging, boring, scooping etc.<\/p>\n Having conducted extensive research in relevant archives and engaged other experts in analysis of where Endurance<\/em> may have come to rest, Mensun Bound established the following objectives for Endurance22.<\/p>\n The search for Endurance<\/em> was conducted using two <\/span>State-of-the-art\u00a0<\/span>SAAB Sabertooth subsea vehicles (AUVs) fitted with visual and sonar survey technology. <\/span><\/p>\n If the Agulhas II<\/em> ship couldn’t get close to the wreck site, the Expedition planned to create one or possibly two ice camps, where holes would be drilled through the sea ice using a giant auger ice drill over three feet (about one meter) in diameter. This would be wide enough for the Sabertooth AUV to be lowered through to try and locate, survey and film the wreck of Endurance<\/em>. Luckily, conditions in sea ice allowed the expedition ship to get close enough to the Endurance<\/em> wreck site, where the AUVs were launched directly from the vessel.<\/span><\/p>\nThe archaeological objectives for Endurance22:<\/h2>\n
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Technology<\/h2>\n