The 'Endurance' disappeared over a century ago. Here's how explorers found the famous ship.

The 'Endurance' disappeared over a century ago. Here's how explorers found the famous ship.

The 'Endurance' disappeared over a century ago. Here's how explorers found the famous ship. 18 Minutes Read 3759 Words EN The Weddell Sea hides its secrets well. John Shears and Mensun Bound knew that better than anyone—at least anyone alive. The two men had spent years searching for the Weddell’s greatest treasure. Now, standing on ice amid the brutal polar sea, they were ready to admit defeat. They had climbed from their massive icebreaker to take a walk and have a brief chat. And discuss how to break the news to the world that they’d failed again. The treasure they were hunting was the famous Endurance, the three-masted barkentine that carried Ernest Shackleton and his 27-man crew to Antarctica in 1914, before being crushed by pack ice and swallowed by the Weddell. The failed expedition—Shackleton meant to land the ship and cross the continent on foot—instead became a saga of survival and one of the best documented tales of the great age of polar exploration. Shackleton, as w…