The Real Reason Endurance Sank
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- #Shackleton Expedition
- #Endurance Shipwreck
- #Antarctic Exploration
- Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew were stranded in the Antarctic after their ship, Endurance, was trapped and sunk by pack ice in 1915.
- A new analysis reveals that Endurance would have sunk regardless of the rudder's condition due to compressive ice forces, and it wasn't designed to withstand such conditions.
- Shackleton likely knew the risks but proceeded with the voyage anyway.
- The Endurance22 mission discovered the shipwreck in 2022, finding it in pristine condition due to the absence of wood-eating microbes.
- Endurance set sail in 1914, became icebound in 1915, and after months of freezing conditions, the ship's decks buckled under ice pressure.