Image Credit: James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust
By Luis Prada
For over a century, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance has been mythologized as the Titanic of the Antarctic.
It’s considered to be a cautionary tale about a ship built to withstand anything, so much so that its hubris was built into its name. Of course, it eventually sank in the Arctic, supposedly due to a busted rudder.
A new study posits a fascinating idea: what if the Endurance was actually a piece of s**t that wasn’t built for any of the stuff that it did? Wouldn’t that make the fact that it sank entirely unsurprising?
That’s the claim in a new paper by Jukka Tuhkuri, a Finnish sea ice expert and professor at Aalto University. Tuhkuri ran some calculations after joining the 2022 expedition that rediscovered the Endurance wreck.
Read the full article on NewsBreak:
https://www.newsbreak.com/share/4289493671366-endurance-shipwreck-reveals-we-were-wrong-about-the-legendary-ship
