In 1915, a fearless British researcher Sir Ernest Shekleton and his team for several months ended up in the Antarctic after their ship, EndurancePack Ice was caught, ultimately plunged into the freezing depths of the Wedell Sea. Miraculously, the whole team survived. The prevailing popular story surrounding the famous journey represents two key assumptions: what Endurance He was the most powerful polar ship of his time, and that the ship ultimately sank after the ice was torn by the steering wheel.
However, the new analysis shows that Endurance I would even have drowned with an intact steering wheel; He was crushed by the cumulative forces of the compression of Antarctic ice without a single cause of immersion. In addition, the ship was not developed to withstand these forces, and Shekleton probably knew well about this fact, according to the new article published in the journal Polar Record. And yet he still decided to go on a risky journey.
The author of Dzhukka Tukhkuri from the University of Aalto is a polar researcher and one of the leading researchers on ice around the world. He was among scientists at the EndURANCE22 mission It discovered A Endurance shipwreck in 2022, documented in 2024 National Geographical Documentary FilmThe ship was in an untouched by the field partly due to the lack of microbes eating from wood in these waters. In fact Endurance22 Expedition Research Director, Mensun Bound, said The New York Times At a time when the shipwreck was the best example that he saw when he saw; Endurance was “in a brilliant state of conservation.”
How Previously reportedIN Endurance Speak from Plymouth on August 6, 1914, when Shekleton joined his team in Buenos -Aires, Argentina. By the time they reached the Weddell sea in January 1915, the accumulation of bags and strong storms slowed down progress until crawling. Endurance On January 24, SHEKLTON was completely icy, and by mid -February he ordered the boilers to turn off so that the ship was drifting with ice until the weather was heated so that the flock would break up. It would be a long wait. Within 10 months, the crew experienced freezing conditions. In August, ice flakes pressed against the ship with such force that the decks of the ship fastened.
