Richard's Reviews > Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Update, March 2020:

❝The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack ice and sank during an expedition by the explorer Ernest Shackleton.

A team of adventurers, marine archaeologists and technicians located the wreck at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, using undersea drones. Battling sea ice and freezing temperatures, the team had been searching for more than two weeks in a 150-square-mile area around where the ship went down in 1915.
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“We have made polar history with the discovery of Endurance, and successfully completed the world’s most challenging shipwreck search,” said John Shears, the expedition’s leader.

The first images of the ship since those taken by Shackleton’s photographer, Frank Hurley, revealed parts of the vessel in astonishing detail. An image of the stern showed the name “ENDURANCE” above a five-pointed star, a holdover from before Shackleton bought the ship, when it was named Polaris. Another showed the rear deck and the ship’s wheel.❞

Good article with great pictures and a one-minute video at the NY Times: At the Bottom of an Icy Sea, One of History’s Great Wrecks Is Found ; more pictures and story at NPR, Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, lost since 1915, is found off Antarctica; and yet more pictures at The Guardian, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance found – in pictures .

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Huh, never wrote a review, eh? I'm surprised: five star book!

Anyway, this might be interesting: some researchers are going to hunt down the sunken Endurance and examine it:

A Search Begins for the Wreck Behind an Epic Tale of Survival

❝A century after Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank in the waters of Antarctica, resulting in one of the greatest survival stories in the history of exploration, a team of modern adventurers, technicians and scientists is setting sail to find the wreck.

❝With a crew of 46 and a 64-member expedition team aboard, a South African icebreaker, the Agulhas II, is set to leave Cape Town on Saturday, bound for the Weddell Sea. Once there, the team hopes to find the wreck and explore it with two underwater drones.❞

Pretty cool!