🎧 Endurance22: Shackleton's Lost Ship Discovered!
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 38m
Ernest Shackleton's famous shipwreck the Endurance has been found! This is the exclusive behind the scenes story of how the international crew of the Endurance22 expedition made the discovery of a lifetime.
Having not been seen since it was crushed by the Antarctic pack ice in 1915, the Endurance has now been located 3008 metres down, roughly 4 miles from where it sank in in the Weddell Sea. A race against the clock and the encroaching winter, dashed hopes and grand revelations; Dan brings you the dramatic story from onboard the SA Agulhas II, as they found it.
Produced by Mariana Des Forges
Mixed and Mastered by Dougal Patmore
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