The rescue of the Endurance ship is the subject of a National Geographic documentary

The ship became known for the expedition commanded by Ernest Shackleton […]

Wrecked more than 100 years ago, the Endurance returned to prominence in 2022.

The ship is known for the frustrated expedition led by Irishman Ernest Shackleton, which was stranded in Antarctica between 1914 and 1916, due to the region’s poor weather conditions, before being consumed by the force of the ice and sinking in the Weddell Sea, in the Southern Ocean.

The complex salvage operation of the most challenging wreck in history, one of the most ambitious data transmission projects in the region, will be chronicled in the documentary “Endurance”, by filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (both directors of the feature films “Free Solo” and “NYAD”) and Natalie Hewit.

Documentary

The National Geographic Documentary Films production will have its world premiere next month at the London Film Festival (originally BFI London Film Festival), which runs from October 9 to 20, and is expected to then hit streaming platforms including National Geographic Channels and Disney+.

Originally planned for a 35-day journey, the rescue project lasted more than two weeks and was carried out aboard the icebreaker SA Agulhas II, a powerful 134-metre polar vessel built in Finland and capable of forcing its way through blocks of ice up to 300 metres thick.

To ensure the challenge, Swedish-built AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) were also used exclusively for the 2022 mission, led by John Shears.

These aquatic robots, called Sabertooth, are equipped with high-definition cameras and side-scan sonar, capable of sending information captured from depths of up to four thousand metres back to the surface in real time.

At 3,008 meters deep, the ship was found intact and upright. However, nothing was touched or removed from this historic site and monument, in accordance with the Antarctic Treaty.

Resistance ship

The Endurance was a steamship built exclusively for polar crossings, with which Ernest Shackleton intended, for the first time in human history, to cross the continent from one end to the other, between the Weddell Sea and the South Pole.

Considered the last great voyage of the Age of Discovery, the journey began in London on August 1, 1914, and took an unexpected turn on January 20 of the following year, unable to proceed due to dense ice blocking the ship.

After abandoning ship, the group of 28 men on board continued overland and in makeshift boats until they found help on South Georgia, where part of the crew arrived at the port of Stromness on 20 May 1916, almost two years after being discharged from Endurance. England.

Source: Terra

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