Expedition Under Way to Find Shackleton's Antarctic Exploration Ship

5th February 2022

A source of eternal and increasing fascination - Ernest Shackleton's doomed Endurance locked in the thickening ice of the Weddell Sea

The Kildare-born Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton becomes more famous with every passing year, particularly in America where his successful saving of the lives of every member of his doomed 1914-1916 expedition with the ice-crushed Endurance is used in top business
schools as a study in successful adaptive leadership. Thus the possibility that much of the Endurance may remain largely intact deep under the surface ice of the Weddell Sea is a source of increasing fascination, but in 2007 a search expedition failed to find her as they lost contact with their free-moving submersible.

Today a new Endurance-seeking expedition is underway from South Africa, this time with a submersible that will maintain direct line-linked contact - The New York Times has the story here

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland for many years in print and online, and his work has appeared internationally in magazines and books. His own experience ranges from club sailing to international offshore events, and he has cruised extensively under sail, often in his own boats which have ranged in size from an 11ft dinghy to a 35ft cruiser-racer. He has also been involved in the administration of several sailing organisations.

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