![]() But we were also a bunch of very highly trained minds. MENSUN BOUND: OK, I mean, at one level, we were a bunch of wonks. You write, “We are a joyous bag of wonks on this ship, all card-carrying Shackleton fanatics.” Tell me more about this crew. You wrote that you grew up on the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic and that, “Everyone in my generation was a Shackleton enthusiast.” And you joined a crew of like-minded Shackleton nerds on your ship. Let’s talk about your personal history with the story of Shackleton. ![]() Mensun Bound is a maritime archaeologist, Director of Exploration on the mission that found the ship and author of The Ship Beneath the Ice. ![]() But none were successful until literally a year ago when The Endurance was located for the first time since it sank back in 1915. Over the years, there have been attempts to find The Endurance shipwreck. And finally, after many months of fighting the cold, frostbite, and the angry seas, Shackleton was able to rescue all of his men with no loss of life. Shackleton, with five of his crew, set out in a small boat to bring help from hundreds of miles away. However, their ship, The Endurance, became stuck in the ice, was crushed, sank to the bottom of the frigid Antarctic waters, leaving most of the men stranded on cold, desolate land. Led by Shackleton, they had hoped to be the first to cross the isolated continent by foot. In August of 1914, 28 men set sail from England to Antarctica. There are few stories about heroic survival equal to Ernest Shackleton’s daring rescue of his entire crew that turned disaster into triumph. Library of Congress Endurance squeezed between an ice jam. Credit: Library of Congress Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic terrors of the Weddell Sea. Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic last moments of the Endurance. View more images of Shackleton’s last expedition from the Library of Congress. His new book, The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance, is out now. Ira is joined by Mensun Bound, maritime archeologist and the director of exploration on the mission that found the Endurance. None were successful until a year ago, when the wreck was located for the first time since it sank back in 1915. ![]() Over the years, there have been many attempts to find the Endurance shipwreck. Finally, after many months of fighting the cold, frostbite and angry seas, Shackleton was able to rescue all his men with no loss of life. It sank to the bottom of the frigid Antarctic waters, leaving most of the men stranded on a cold, desolate ice floe. However, their ship, the Endurance, became stuck in ice. Led by Shackleton himself, the group hoped to be the first to cross Antarctica by foot. In August of 1914, 28 men set sail from England to the South Pole. There are few stories about heroic survival equal to Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic rescue of his crew, which turned disaster into triumph. A black and white film negative of Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic winter flashlight scene in the Weddell Sea, showing Endurance stuck fast. ![]()
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