The Shellback Club reviewed a couple of excellent YouTube videos: Four Masted Barque rounding Cape Horn, 1928 with Captain Irving Johnson. This is a Mystic Seaport Video – original filmed in 1928, remastered in 1998. (37 min) AND The Endurance: A Legendary Story of Survival – Shackleton’s Captain – A Timeline video. Captain Frank Worsley signs on as Captain of the Endurance to navigate Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to Antarctica. When the expedition ship is crushed, Worsley’s seamanship & navigations skills saves them all. (52 min) The final resting place of the Endurance on the bottom of the Weddell Sea is pretty well known, thanks to the careful log-keeping and positioning work of its skipper, Frank Worsley. Efforts to visit the wreck have so far been thwarted by pack ice, but a new expedition will soon make another attempt, using submersible technology that should manage the task beneath the surface of the ice. Details can be found here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60239105
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