Wait. I have to put my Speedo on.
This will be exciting.
I wish them good luck. I’m guessing they are bright guys, and not just some explorer with a bunch of money. I know that finding a lot of these wrecks take into account ocean currents, etc. For some reason they figure it will still be pretty close to where it sank.
For those who have not read Shakleton’s story, it sounds almost as if it had to be made up. Shackleton and his men are true men.
While reading it, get a pic of Dorkbama’s pajama boy printed so that you can spit on it when you realize what progressive “men” are compared to real men.
They had a great exhibit in the Peabody-Essex Museum in Massachusetts that I got to see, they had one of the boats there.
Unbelievable story. What really roasted my bagel was when they said that they became uncomfortably warm trying to sleep when the temperature was about 28 degrees! (IIRC)
And sleeping on an ice floe that cracked and opened under them as they slept...just wow.
And the trip across Georgia Island...astonishing.
That wasn’t the first time Shackleton had a ship crushed or stuck in the ice...
In the Summer of 1903-04 Shackleton and Scott had a ship stuck in the ice at the Antartic for weeks...Shackleton got sick and was sent to NZ on the supply ship the Morning...
My grandfather was an able bodied seaman on the Morning at that time...
:)
Also quoting from the article. “Just getting to the search site is a remarkable effort. The Agulhas has had to fight its way through ice that has thickened over several years.”
...hmmmm, very curious indeed. What say you, Al Gore?
I’ve read almost all of the books about Shackleton and his expeditions including Shackelton’s own book on the Endurance expedition, “South”.
Shackleton is not only the toughest man who ever lived but also the luckiest. He was also a foolish risk taker and the irony of the Endurance expedition was that if it had not sank he would have perished trying to cross Antarctica. The shore party for Endurance was supposed to lay the depots for the trans antarctic crossing but because of the weather and delays couldn’t do it until a year later.
Shackleton would have made it to the South Pole on the Nimrod expedition had he taken Nansen’s advice to use dogs. Instead he followed the advice of British polar explorer Frederick Jackson and took Siberian ponies instead. The ponies were a disaster just like they proved to be for Scott’s Terra Nova expedition.
This might interest you.
I remember channel flipping some time ago and running across the pbs show on endurance. Suddenly, I was transfixed, until it was over. Amazing feats of courage, seamanship, all that
Made me never want to leave Texas again. :p
30.0” South and 30.0” West.
To the nearest 30 seconds N and W with a sextant? That’s incredibly precise — a second of arc on the earth’s surface is about 100 feet.
Was he really precise to a tenth of a second? Why are both measurements to 30.0 seconds on the dot?