Ernest Shackleton's ship, The Endurance, has been found virtually intact 107 years after sinking in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica. Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition sought to make the first land crossing of Antarctica and embarked in 1914. Before reaching shore, the ship became trapped in the ice. He and his crew were stuck on board for ten months before they decided to abandon ship and escape in lifeboats and on foot. The ship was found at a depth of almost 10,000 feet and was in remarkably intact condition given the super cold water and lack of wood-eating microbes.
I looked at the Wikipedia entry…it may be the strongest wood built ship ever made. Conventional ship anyway Benthic blues https://www.space.com/nasa-documentary-black-space-explorers-juneteenth Other wrecks https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...sh-galleon-inspired-Goonies-coast-Oregon.html https://phys.org/news/2022-08-shipworms-captain-cook-endeavour.html https://www.livescience.com/cargo-shipwreck-germany-river https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...-2-000-year-old-headless-statue-Hercules.html https://phys.org/news/2022-09-edge-science-reveals-gribshunden-shipwrecked.html https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2022...nd-a-Mysterious-Supernatural-Entity-in-Texas/ https://www.livescience.com/bronze-age-gold-belt-czech-republic https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/amber https://phys.org/news/2023-04-explorers-wwii-ship-sunk-allied.html Misc https://phys.org/news/2023-04-oldest-human-puerto-rico-reveal.html https://phys.org/news/2023-04-modern-day-scottish-welsh-northern-irish.html https://phys.org/news/2023-04-roman-military-archaeologists-google-earth.html Language find https://www.smithsonianmag.com/hist...phered-a-mysterious-ancient-script-180980497/ stolen? https://www.thevintagenews.com/2022/08/15/howard-carter-king-tut-treasure/ Titanic in 8K video https://www.unexplained-mysteries.c...ever-8k-video-footage-of-the-titanic-released The other ship https://phys.org/news/2022-09-ship-titanic.html
^^ Not even close. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_(ship) That little ship was a far better design for the arctic, it couldn't be crushed, was very well insulated and it could keep the crew alive for 5 years (very star trek )
^ The fascinating thing to me about that ship is the diesel engine. I mean, it sounds and feels so anachronistic to think of a diesel engine on a tall ship, but I guess technology was advancing quickly. It looks quite modern. Of course, I think the Franklin Expedition had them too. I know of a guy who over 100 years ago went on a number of arctic expeditions. On his first, the ship he was on collided with an iceberg and they were rescued by Inuit. At this point, I'd maybe start evaluating my career choice. But he went on a few others unscathed, but on another of his expeditions, his ship was crushed by ice and sank. They were stranded in the Russian Arctic for 3 years and he survived it all and lived to tell the tale.
Those early explorers were really going into the great unknown. The Lewis & Clark Expedition took three years and travelled 8,000 miles. Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the world also took three years. A number of expeditions to discover the northwest passage resulted in failure and death. Those trips were not for the faint of heart.