The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Sunday Times Bestseller - The Gripping Story of Finding Shackleton's Endurance

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He is a Trustee of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and was Director of Exploration on the 2019 and 2022 expeditions to locate Shackleton’s Endurance. While the author fills in the gaps on Shackleton and the Endurance story this is primarily a book about modern underwater archaeology on the expedition to find the lost ship beneath the ice of the Weddell Sea.

The first part is the first venture, in 2019, where the crew had nature throw pretty much everything at them- which means they learned a lot- but didn't set eyes on the ship. they launched another expedition, this time featuring a Sabertooth diving vessel with a tilt camera. I thoroughly enjoyed Bound's blend of Shackleton's expedition alongside the 2019 and 2022 expeditions. By October 1915, she was being squeezed so hard that everyone on board had to disembark and camp on stable ice. But this is a very boots on the ground kind of a story of the discovery of Endurance, which gives it a place on the shelves of ice explorers.

McNish was an awkward character, but the decision by Shackleton to deny him the Polar Medal which almost all the rest of the crew received does seem petty. The team launched their second attempt in 2022 with new equipment, a Sabertooth diving vessel with a tilt camera, and had success.

The inside story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration. Endurance was last seen in 1915, when Irish-British explorer Shackleton and his 27 men watched in dismay as the ship, crushed by ice, sank into the icy depths. I think the expedition-inviters spy on possible invitees and thus I will never be asked to go on an expedition. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing story of the ship and its discovery, told by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on the Endurance22 Expedition.

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I felt like I could easily imagine the ship, crew, and circumstances and imagine their elation at their find. Although the conclusion is already known, this book still reads like a thriller of a different sort, and definitely gave me a different perspective of what it meant to "persevere" as long as it does not bring harm to the crew. At 5pm she went down by the head: the stern the cause of all the trouble was the last to go under water. Unable to see the wreck, they hoped to detect its presence from signals sent by unmanned submersibles. Complete with captivating photos from the 1914 expedition and of the wreck as Bound and his team found it, this inspiring modern-day adventure narrative captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries--both of whom accomplished the impossible.

Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated ship sank over 100 years ago and there are some pretty good leads about where it is exactly. In her hotly anticipated memoir, the author traces the challenges and triumphs of her upbringing in New Jersey and the work (including a stint as an intern with Sen. I was the only black girl making white girl money,” she boasts, telling a vibrant story about sex and struggle in a bygone era. Nothing proves that more than author Mensun Bound's account of the 2022 expedition which finally located the lost wreck of the ship that brought Shackleton and his men into the heart of the Antarctic.