
Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
What was one of the world's greatest undiscovered shipwrecks is identified on the Antarctic seafloor.

She's 10,000 feet down, not with any technology we have today.I wonder if she can be raised.
And while it looks great, I wonder if it would shatter into matchsticks or dissolve into mush if it was shaken about much. Best to just send some robots down to poke around in it.She's 10,000 feet down, not with any technology we have today.I wonder if she can be raised.
Glomar Explorer was built to recover a much larger vessel from a greater depth. So we know how to do it, we just don't have the hardware ready to go.She's 10,000 feet down, not with any technology we have today.I wonder if she can be raised.
Has a reader of the novel, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, written by Alfred Lansing, during my childhood , I can't believe how lucky we are today with this news. 35 years ago, we had to found the Titanic, and that was amazing. Now this!!
I would invite anyone willing to know more to read the book.
And while it looks great, I wonder if it would shatter into matchsticks or dissolve into mush if it was shaken about much. Best to just send some robots down to poke around in it.She's 10,000 feet down, not with any technology we have today.I wonder if she can be raised.
A much larger metal vessel that was down for a tiny fraction of the time Endurance has been under and not in antarctic waters. If we replicated GE today we couldn't being her up intact. Raising a wooden ship in this state requires extreme care and lots of prep work down at the wreck, we can’t put divers that deep and we don't have good enough robots to do it for us.Glomar Explorer was built to recover a much larger vessel from a greater depth. So we know how to do it, we just don't have the hardware ready to go.She's 10,000 feet down, not with any technology we have today.I wonder if she can be raised.
Musk, Bezos, et. al. in that income bracket come to mind as to who might decide to underwrite salvaging the Endurance as a vanity project/publicity stunt. Accident probabilities are subject to risk assessments and by no means automatically a show stopper- what would be the potential catastrophe? The choice is between having an intact wreck in a location that almost noone ever gets to experience in person or having a (potentially) somewhat damaged/restored artifact that is readily accessible to any landlubber. Since no lives were lost in the sinking of the Endurance, there are no ethical quagmires to be resolved. Assuming there are no residual ownership rights involved, which of course there always might be, keeping in mind Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2, in combination with the punchline of the pun that starts with the question "What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?" (but I digress), I have no doubt whatsoever that the technology to achieve that particular feat is more than readily available. As you point out yourself, the wooden Swedish warship Vasa that sank in 1628 was successfully salvaged with a largely intact hull in 1961 in notably warmer and biologically much more active waters, so in my engineering estimate, six decades later we should be able to pull the same stunt off with a ship of less than 30% of the tonnage of Vasa and one fourth of the age of Vasa, independent of the depth (think Glomar Explorer). Note that several Viking and even Roman ships have also been discovered, recovered, and subsequently preserved, see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_ships, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi_ships, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_ship_of_Marausa. The only reason not to do it in my view is that the Endurance seems to have evolved into a biological habitat, see https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022/3/9/22969054/endurance-shipwreck-deep-sea-animals, but perhaps it could be replaced with an even bigger, better, optimized dedicated habitat design, assuming transplanting the resident lifeforms successfully is feasible.I think the short season and ice would stop it but who would finance any raising of this ship? As Vasa and Mary Rose prove, it cost's a fortun to do and an accident could be catastrophic.