National Geographic is partnering exclusively with SVOD and content platform History Hit for a project about the search and discovery of one of the great lost shipwrecks of history — Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance.
The discovery of the wreck was just announced today by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust who organised the expedition to locate the wreck. The ship was found 107 years after it sank off the coast of Antarctica and three kilometers deep in the Weddell Sea.
Shackleton and 27 other men set out in 1914 on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition with the goal of crossing Antarctica from sea to sea via the pole. However, nearing the continent, the ship became trapped in pack ice and sank in 1915.
The crew made it to uninhabited Elephant Island before Shackleton and several men set off in a lifeboat on an 800-mile journey to a whaling station in South Georgia.
Organized by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, the recent expedition onboard the icebreaker Agulhas II was led by polar geographer Dr. John Shears with marine archaeologist Mensun Bound as director of exploration.
A crew of scientists and archaeologists alongside a team of highly experienced extreme environment filmmakers, led by Dan Snow for History Hit, documented the events in real-time leading up to the historic discovery.
The documentary will premiere this Fall as part of National Geographic’s Explorer series on National Geographic Channels and Disney+. BAFTA-nominated Natalie Hewit directs.
Source: National Geographic, Endurance22
