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1 00:01:22 It was a dream.
2 00:01:24 It was a treasure hunt.
3 00:01:28 But I don't thinkthat Shackleton thought
4 00:01:30 anything aboutthe material side.
5 00:01:33 What the treasure can buyisn't the answer.
6 00:01:37 It's the finding of it,
7 00:01:39 the looking for it.
8 00:01:43 Shackleton once wrote to his wife,
9 00:01:45 said that he cannot describethe excitement
10 00:01:47 of seeing placesand things
11 00:01:49 that no human'sever seen before.
12 00:01:56 Beloved.
13 00:01:57 This will be my last letter
14 00:01:58 before I go southinto the unknown.
15 00:02:02 I have not the slightest doubtthat we will get through.
16 00:02:08 Why we go,I cannot say.
17 00:02:11 What the impelling force isthat makes explorers,
18 00:02:14 I cannot describe.
19 00:02:28 January the 21st, 1915.
20 00:02:32 Our position is disquieting.
21 00:02:35 The fall in temperaturecaused the small pools
22 00:02:38 around the ship to congeal.
23 00:02:40 It looks as though there wasa possibility of us freezing in
24 00:02:43 and becoming partof the floes that menace us.
25 00:02:49 Each steptaken into the unknown
26 00:02:51 unfolds a page of mystery.
27 00:02:54 And as long as there isany mystery on this globe,
28 00:02:58 it is not only man's right,
29 00:02:59 but his dutyto try to unravel it.
30 00:03:06 The idea of exploration,
31 00:03:08 going for the prize,
32 00:03:09 and then takingone step beyond,
33 00:03:11 is in all of us.
34 00:03:16 We could hear
35 00:03:17 her beam snapping,
36 00:03:18 broken as easilyas matchsticks
37 00:03:20 by the irresistiblestrength of the ice.
38 00:03:28 I like doing what'snever been done before.
39 00:03:32 As Shackleton said,
40 00:03:33 difficulties are justthings to overcome.
41 00:03:44 As long as we can come out
42 00:03:46 of this predicamentwith our lives,
43 00:03:48 we shall not grumble.
44 00:03:51 And please, God,we will succeed.
45 00:04:58 - Morning, Nico.- Morning, Mensun.
46 00:05:02 Lasse.
47 00:05:04 Well, it's amazing, I mean,
48 00:05:06 it was taken from space.
49 00:05:08 When we have sunny weather,we can get the optical imagery
50 00:05:10 which is super helpfulfor navigation.
51 00:05:19 Probably, we will moveon this area
52 00:05:22 because we are already here.
53 00:05:29 We've got toprovide all the support we can
54 00:05:32 to the AUV guys.
55 00:05:33 They are gonna be working 24/7
56 00:05:36 flat out to surveythat search box.
57 00:05:38 We've only got 12 days.
58 00:05:40 If the weather holds up,
59 00:05:42 we may be able to geta 10-day extension.
60 00:05:44 But we have to get out beforethe ice reforms and refreezes.
61 00:05:52 We are nearthe latitude and longitude,
62 00:05:55 given by Worsley,the captain of Endurance,
63 00:05:58 as the place wherehe estimates Endurance sank.
64 00:06:00 Success awaits.Dive one, boys. Let's go.
65 00:06:19 The Enduranceis the most storied wreck
66 00:06:21 of all time,
67 00:06:23 perhaps even more sothan the Titanic,
68 00:06:25 which went down only two yearsbefore the Endurance set sail.
69 00:06:30 I've been working on shipwrecksall over the world,
70 00:06:33 from South China Seain the east
71 00:06:35 to Caribbean in the west.
72 00:06:38 Shipwrecks of all kinds,all periods.
73 00:06:41 The wreck ofan ancient Greek ship
74 00:06:43 found inside a live volcanooff the coast of Sicily
75 00:06:46 could prove one of the greatestfinds of the century.
76 00:06:49 A shipwreck is,is just this huge artifact.
77 00:06:53 It's all there.
78 00:06:54 I mean,the best time capsules
79 00:06:57 in the world are shipwrecks...
80 00:07:01 and shipwrecksare all about people.
81 00:07:05 This is, um, Frank Worsley.
82 00:07:07 He was the captainof the Endurance
83 00:07:09 and, uh, Harry McNish,the carpenter,
84 00:07:12 James Wordie,the geologist, Greenstreet.
85 00:07:16 So it's all to dowith their diaries.
86 00:07:17 The story of Shackleton
87 00:07:18 is really to be toldin the diaries.
88 00:07:21 I've read all the diaries andmost of them are not published.
89 00:07:24 This is first bookI ever read about Shackleton.
90 00:07:28 I... it's-it's...I carry it with me.
91 00:07:29 It was a prize bookthat was given to me for,
92 00:07:33 believe it or not,attendance at Sunday School.
93 00:07:39 Growing up inthe Falkland Islands
94 00:07:40 felt like the continentof Antarctica
95 00:07:42 was my backyard,
96 00:07:44 just several hundredmiles away.
97 00:07:50 The great man himself,the boss,
98 00:07:53 Shackleton.
99 00:07:54 And I carry this with me.
100 00:07:58 All good.
101 00:08:04 Yeah, all good.
102 00:08:09 Uh, good luck with this, Dan,
103 00:08:10 but is this a needlein a haystack?
104 00:08:12 How, how optimistic are you?
105 00:08:14 Well, I-I think it isa needle in a haystack.
106 00:08:17 It's at 3,000 meters
107 00:08:19 beneath the surfaceof the Weddell Sea.
108 00:08:21 The Weddell Sea is oneof the hardest places
109 00:08:22 on earth to operate.
110 00:08:24 The hope is, we dofind the shipwreck,
111 00:08:26 the Endurance shipwreck,
112 00:08:27 and it connects usto an incredible story.
113 00:08:30 It's probablythe most isolated,
114 00:08:32 the most difficult shipwreckon earth to find.
115 00:08:33 So this expedition is reallyon the frontiers
116 00:08:37 of science and geography.
117 00:08:39 My job is to tryand spread the story
118 00:08:42 of what's being done hereon the Agulhas
119 00:08:43 all over the world.
120 00:08:45 It's to channel the spiritof Shackleton and Hurley,
121 00:08:48 his photographer, to tellthe world what they were doing.
122 00:08:51 But use modern platformsand tools,
123 00:08:52 like the internet,like social media.
124 00:08:55 We're still talkingabout Shackleton
125 00:08:57 because this isthe greatest tale of survival,
126 00:08:59 of leadership,of teamwork in history.
127 00:09:03 And it's a storyabout failure.
128 00:09:10 This was the greatage of exploration.
129 00:09:13 We hadn't descended to thedeepest depths of the ocean.
130 00:09:16 We hadn't yet climbed thehighest mountain of the world.
131 00:09:21 Polar explorersin this period
132 00:09:22 were global celebrities.
133 00:09:24 They were the rock stars.
134 00:09:28 Shackleton wason four expeditions
135 00:09:31 to the Antarctic.
136 00:09:33 He found himself in 1901
137 00:09:35 as the third officeron Scott's great expedition,
138 00:09:38 the Discovery expedition.
139 00:09:42 Shackleton must've been
140 00:09:43 a very special charactereven then,
141 00:09:45 in his 20s,to persuade Scott,
142 00:09:47 as a Royal Navy officer,to take this man
143 00:09:49 from the merchant marinewith him,
144 00:09:51 all the way to the Antarctic.
145 00:09:53 They suffered terribly.
146 00:09:55 They got backby the skin of their teeth.
147 00:09:58 Shackleton in particularwas in a very bad way.
148 00:10:02 Shackleton is sent back
149 00:10:05 as an invalid to the UK,
150 00:10:06 which he wasterribly embarrassed by.
151 00:10:10 He never forgotor forgave Scott
152 00:10:12 for invaliding himout of Antarctica.
153 00:10:17 But Shackletonwas able, in 1907,
154 00:10:20 to secure enough fundingfor his own expedition
155 00:10:22 to Antarctica,called the Nimrod Expedition.
156 00:10:25 Again, he was tryingto get to the South Pole,
157 00:10:28 and he got to within 97 miles.
158 00:10:32 He could've taken the prize,but he didn't
159 00:10:36 because he knew if he wentthat last bit of distance,
160 00:10:40 that men under himwould've died.
161 00:10:45 I cannot think of failure.
162 00:10:47 Yet I must lookat the matter sensibly
163 00:10:50 and the lives of thosewho are with me.
164 00:10:53 It must have beena very difficult decision
165 00:10:56 for him to have made.
166 00:11:02 After the conquestof the South Pole
167 00:11:04 by Amundsen,
168 00:11:05 who, by a narrow marginof days only,
169 00:11:07 was in advance of theBritish expedition under Scott,
170 00:11:11 there remainedbut one great main object
171 00:11:13 of Antarctic journeys:
172 00:11:15 the crossing ofthe South Polar continent
173 00:11:17 from sea to sea.
174 00:11:20 Shackleton managedto convince enough people
175 00:11:22 the greatest Antarctic journeywas yet to be done.
176 00:11:25 People might have reachedthe South Pole.
177 00:11:27 But the greatest journeywas crossing
178 00:11:29 the Antarctic continent
179 00:11:30 from one sideto the other.
180 00:11:35 Shackleton then found his ship.
181 00:11:38 The Endurancewas built in Norway
182 00:11:39 between 1911 and 1913.
183 00:11:43 When Shackletonpurchased the ship,
184 00:11:46 he changed her nameto Endurance
185 00:11:48 because it reflectedhis family motto:
186 00:11:51 "By endurance we conquer."
187 00:11:55 He then assembled a crew.
188 00:11:57 Shackleton just senta letter to the newspaper.
189 00:11:59 And he would say,anyone's able to apply.
190 00:12:01 He got 5,000 applicants,including three women.
191 00:12:05 Some were scientistswho wanted to take part
192 00:12:06 in the kind of scientificelements of the expedition.
193 00:12:09 Some were sailors.
194 00:12:14 I had joinedthe expedition by accident.
195 00:12:17 One night, I dreamedthat Burlington Street
196 00:12:20 was full of ice blocks
197 00:12:21 and that I was navigatinga ship along it.
198 00:12:25 An absurd dream.
199 00:12:27 But sailors are superstitious.
200 00:12:29 And when I woke upnext morning,
201 00:12:31 I hurried downBurlington Street.
202 00:12:34 A sign on the door postcaught my eye.
203 00:12:36 It bore the words "ImperialTrans-Antarctic Expedition."
204 00:12:42 I turned into the building.Shackleton was there.
205 00:12:46 The momentI set eyes on him,
206 00:12:48 I knew that he was a man
207 00:12:50 with whom I shouldbe proud to work.
208 00:12:54 He took one scientist,
209 00:12:56 a meteorologistwho had just returned
210 00:12:57 from an expedition to Sudan.
211 00:12:59 There was one small matter
212 00:13:01 about which I was concerned:
213 00:13:02 it was whether I shouldtake my banjo with me.
214 00:13:05 His reply was emphatic."Certainly," he said.
215 00:13:08 So my banjo, the same oneon which I had played
216 00:13:11 to the audience in the Sudan,formed part of my baggage.
217 00:13:18 He didn't requireany Antarctic experience.
218 00:13:20 He took one guy becausehe said he looked funny.
219 00:13:24 He was looking for character.
220 00:13:25 He was looking for toughnessand versatility.
221 00:13:30 So Shackleton ended upwith a crew
222 00:13:32 of 28 men,including himself,
223 00:13:34 lots and lotsof dogs to pull sleds,
224 00:13:36 which no one ever hadany experience of doing.
225 00:13:39 And a cat.
226 00:13:40 On the other sideof Antarctica,
227 00:13:42 he was sendinganother ship.
228 00:13:43 And they were gonna tryand lay food dumps
229 00:13:47 so that Shackletonand his men could pick them up
230 00:13:49 and avoid starvation
231 00:13:50 as they made the second halfof their journey.
232 00:13:58 It was the very eveof World War I.
233 00:14:02 He did offer his ship
234 00:14:04 and its crewto the service of the nation.
235 00:14:07 He sent a telegramto Churchill,
236 00:14:09 but Churchill replied,
237 00:14:10 "proceed," and he did.
238 00:14:30 The Endurance arrived
239 00:14:31 at Grytviken Whaling Stationin South Georgia
240 00:14:34 on 5th of November, 1914.
241 00:14:38 The whalingcaptains at South Georgia
242 00:14:40 confirmed the extreme severityof the ice conditions.
243 00:14:45 The whalingskippers advised us
244 00:14:47 to delay our startas late as possible.
245 00:14:52 Shackleton ignored that advice.
246 00:14:54 He couldn't return home.
247 00:14:55 There was a war on,
248 00:14:57 he'd lose his crew,he'd lose his funding.
249 00:15:00 He didn't havethe reputation
250 00:15:01 that would surviveanother failure.
251 00:15:04 And I think he dragged his mendown there on a doomed quest
252 00:15:09 because he couldn't bearto go home.
253 00:15:16 Shackleton left South Georgia
254 00:15:18 on the 5th of December.
255 00:15:20 Two to three daysafter leaving,
256 00:15:22 they were in the ice.
257 00:15:24 The ice conditions that yearwere very bad indeed.
258 00:15:27 They headed down towardsthe shore of the Weddell Sea.
259 00:15:31 Ice conditionsgot worse and worse.
260 00:15:34 They got to withina hundred miles,
261 00:15:36 or one day's sailing,from their destination,
262 00:15:39 of Vahsel Bay.
263 00:15:40 But then, on the 18th,
264 00:15:42 they became ice-bound.
265 00:15:45 His expedition had failed.
266 00:15:47 He wanted to walkacross Antarctica.
267 00:15:50 He hadn't even set footon Antarctica.
268 00:16:03 There you can see juston the horizon there, can't you?
269 00:16:05 - Yeah.- So there's a lot of sea ice
270 00:16:07 over there then.
271 00:16:09 Yes.
272 00:16:14 It's now minus eight degrees,
273 00:16:17 and you can see lookingat the open patches
274 00:16:19 that it is hardening up.
275 00:16:20 The ice gets all hard,
276 00:16:21 and old and gnarledand mixed and hummocked,
277 00:16:25 and at that stage,we are struggling.
278 00:16:30 And for me,it's a make-or-break situation.
279 00:16:36 Mensun Bound is a legend.
280 00:16:39 He is one of the world'sgreatest marine archeologists.
281 00:16:42 But at this point,he doesn't want
282 00:16:44 his careerto end in failure.
283 00:16:48 We tried once before.
284 00:16:51 In 2019,
285 00:16:54 we came to Antarcticato search for the Endurance.
286 00:16:57 ...we're within its range.
287 00:17:00 It felt like, you know,my whole life had been,
288 00:17:04 uh, convergingupon that moment.
289 00:17:07 It was an incredible feeling.
290 00:17:08 The excitement,the... exhilaration.
291 00:17:12 And then of course,it all went wrong.
292 00:17:18 We actually got to the wrecksite, much to my amazement,
293 00:17:21 because we had very,very tough, uh, ice conditions.
294 00:17:23 We managedto put down the AUV,
295 00:17:26 AUV working perfectly fine.
296 00:17:28 But after 30 hours,
297 00:17:30 it suddenlystopped transmitting.
298 00:17:33 We'd lost it, and we had no ideawhat had happened to it.
299 00:17:37 We searched for three days,didn't find it.
300 00:17:39 Uh, massive failure.
301 00:17:42 The AUV we lostcost millions of dollars.
302 00:17:47 And, all that planning,years of work,
303 00:17:50 all down the tube, you know.
304 00:17:51 It was literally one ofthe worst moments of my life.
305 00:17:56 You know, I never expectedthat, uh...
306 00:18:02 I'd have a second chance
307 00:18:03 to go lookingfor the Endurance,
308 00:18:05 that is for sure.
309 00:18:14 We learntfrom our failures in 2019
310 00:18:17 that we needed a,a different underwater drone
311 00:18:20 to search the seafloor.
312 00:18:22 It was Nico's choice to attachthis brand-new vehicle
313 00:18:24 to the surfaceusing a fiberoptic tether.
314 00:18:29 Nico's, in my mind, one ofthe best subsea engineers
315 00:18:33 anywhere in the world
316 00:18:37 As the vehiclesurveys the seabed,
317 00:18:41 we'll see the Enduranceappear in real time
318 00:18:45 on the navigation screen.
319 00:18:48 Robbie, that's the AUV
320 00:18:49 off the hook.
321 00:18:51 Okay, AUV in thrust mode,all yours, Chad.
322 00:18:57 When you'rein the Weddell Sea,
323 00:18:59 the traditional sub-seamethods don't work
324 00:19:03 because the ice rules.
325 00:19:11 The massive challengeis of launching under the ice
326 00:19:14 and searching on the seafloorat 10,000 feet.
327 00:19:18 And no one hadever done this before.
328 00:19:21 It was complete--completely new
329 00:19:22 in termsof sub-sea technology.
330 00:19:30 We've got 15 nautical milesto run to the site.
331 00:19:33 Should be therebetween 1700
332 00:19:35 to 1800 hours tonight.
333 00:19:37 And what aboutthe ice conditions, Lasse?
334 00:19:40 There's areas of,
335 00:19:41 of open water opening up,
336 00:19:43 but it will bea little denser at the site.
337 00:19:49 So whatever we dowith the AUV operations,
338 00:19:52 the drift will besuper important.
339 00:19:55 Because you haveto park the ship
340 00:19:57 at the right sideof the search window
341 00:20:00 to drift over the wreck siteand not in the other direction.
342 00:20:04 In the Weddell Sea,we have an ocean system,
343 00:20:07 which is calledthe Weddell Gyre.
344 00:20:09 The sea ice goes clockwiselike a huge circle.
345 00:20:13 On average, it drifts20 kilometers a day here.
346 00:20:16 And even the shipwill drift with the ice.
347 00:20:38 The ice was heavilyand firmly packed
348 00:20:39 around the Endurance,extending in every direction
349 00:20:42 as far as the eyecould see from the masthead.
350 00:20:51 As the weeks passed,
351 00:20:52 our drift was slowlybut surely
352 00:20:53 taking us northwards,
353 00:20:55 our track on the chartshowing a formation
354 00:20:57 like that of a drunkenman's wanderings,
355 00:21:00 crossing and recrossingour own track.
356 00:21:06 My chief anxiety is the drift.
357 00:21:09 Where will the vagrant windsand currents carry the ship
358 00:21:12 during the long winter monthsthat are ahead of us?
359 00:21:15 And will it be possibleto break out
360 00:21:17 of the pack early enough
361 00:21:18 to attempt the overlandjourney next year?
362 00:21:22 Shackleton's gambleof racing south in 1914
363 00:21:25 and trying to beatthe winter had failed.
364 00:21:27 He now had to survivea brutal winter
365 00:21:29 in the most inhospitable placeon planet Earth.
366 00:21:37 On February 24th,
367 00:21:38 we ceased to observethe ship's routine
368 00:21:40 and the Endurance becamea winter station.
369 00:21:48 Ice huts were built
370 00:21:49 on the floesaround the ship,
371 00:21:51 and the dogs, each one,chained to a hut.
372 00:21:54 The working and trainingof the dogs was taken in hand.
373 00:22:03 Most ofthe public schools in England
374 00:22:05 helped the expeditionto purchase the dog teams.
375 00:22:08 And we named a dogafter every school that helped.
376 00:22:25 Shackleton insisted on optimism
377 00:22:26 above all else,and I think he was right.
378 00:22:30 Without that sense thatyou are gonna survive,
379 00:22:32 without that sense of purpose,you would give up,
380 00:22:35 you'd turn your faceto the wall.
381 00:22:37 And so they organized lifein a way
382 00:22:39 that would keep their morale upand keep them alive.
383 00:22:54 Hurley is a marvel.
384 00:22:58 With cheerfulAustralian profanity,
385 00:23:00 he perambulatesthe most dangerous
386 00:23:02 and slippery placeshe can find.
387 00:23:05 He snaps his snapsor works his handle,
388 00:23:08 turning out pictures of lifeby the fathom.
389 00:23:14 Shackleton wasgenerations ahead
390 00:23:16 of what young peoplenow know to be true.
391 00:23:18 If you haven't filmed it,it hasn't happened.
392 00:23:20 And so of coursehe took the latest,
393 00:23:22 cutting-edge technology,moving film.
394 00:23:26 He took a documentary makerwith him.
395 00:23:29 I was in the wildsof North Australia at the time,
396 00:23:31 making a film ofthe primitive Aboriginal life.
397 00:23:34 A cable fromSir Ernest Shackleton
398 00:23:36 invited me to join the stafffor his expedition.
399 00:23:39 I hadn't the remotest ideaof what it might involve
400 00:23:42 nor had I appliedfor a post on the expedition.
401 00:23:45 However, Sir Ernesthad long been my hero,
402 00:23:48 and I was goingto follow him in anything
403 00:23:50 and to go anywhere with him.
404 00:23:54 Shackleton was desperateto get the story out there.
405 00:23:57 He lived and diedby publicity.
406 00:24:00 Shackleton could never beconfident of his funding.
407 00:24:02 He was always cobblingthis stuff together.
408 00:24:05 But, underneath it all,he was hopelessly disorganized,
409 00:24:09 terrible with money.
410 00:24:11 To a certain extent,it was a pyramid scheme.
411 00:24:13 He'd get given20 pounds here,
412 00:24:15 and he'd immediatelyhave to pay, uh,
413 00:24:17 someone he'd owedit to over here.
414 00:24:19 I think Shackleton is bestdescribed by a keen observer,
415 00:24:23 fellow crew mate onthe second trip to Antarctica:
416 00:24:26 He said he was a outstanding,plausible rogue.
417 00:24:33 Shackleton never really had
418 00:24:35 the standing that he wantedin British society.
419 00:24:38 He didn't comefrom the aristocracy,
420 00:24:40 he didn't go to university.
421 00:24:45 Shackleton grew up in Ireland.
422 00:24:47 His father was a farmerfirst of all,
423 00:24:49 and then he decided to retrainand became a doctor
424 00:24:52 and he moved the familyto London.
425 00:24:55 Shackleton spoke differently.
426 00:24:56 He was terribly bulliedat school,
427 00:24:57 when he went to schoolin London.
428 00:25:00 He was desperateto prove his worth.
429 00:25:02 He tried to make itas a politician,
430 00:25:04 no one voted for him.
431 00:25:05 He tried to make itas a businessman, it failed.
432 00:25:11 There were two Shackletons.
433 00:25:12 There wasthe public Shackleton
434 00:25:14 that could quote,he had a photographic memory
435 00:25:16 that could quotelong lines of poetry:
436 00:25:18 Shakespeare, Tennyson,Browning at will.
437 00:25:21 He would provoke peopleto tears
438 00:25:23 and cheers in public meetings.
439 00:25:26 The private one was insecure.
440 00:25:30 He had terriblehealth problems.
441 00:25:32 He was wracked with nerves.
442 00:25:33 He wrote to his wifeand he said,
443 00:25:35 "I find that this istoo overwhelming."
444 00:25:38 Beloved, there are times
445 00:25:40 when I almost wishthat I had not gone south
446 00:25:42 but stayed at homeand lived a quiet life.
447 00:25:45 I suppose I ama domestic failure
448 00:25:48 and not the idealmarried man.
449 00:25:51 I am just good as an explorerand nothing else.
450 00:25:56 But, uh, Emily stoodby him all the way through.
451 00:26:00 Emily Shackleton said,
452 00:26:01 "You can't keepa wild eagle in a barn."
453 00:26:07 He must have been quite
454 00:26:09 a disappointed guyin some respects.
455 00:26:11 None of his plansworked out as he hoped.
456 00:26:16 But he hadto keep going to Antarctica
457 00:26:18 because it was the only wayhe could stay relevant,
458 00:26:21 that he could stay famous.
459 00:26:22 So it was likea devil's bargain.
460 00:26:24 He had to keep going back
461 00:26:25 to the worst place on earth
462 00:26:27 to maintain his status at home.
463 00:26:41 Okay, Joe, the AUV levelin' outat, uh, the seabed.
464 00:26:45 [on radio] Alright,Roger that. Roger that.
465 00:26:47 Okay, guys.We're good to start mission?
466 00:26:49 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely.
467 00:26:51 This is the one.Today's the day.
468 00:26:55 Just tab the rolls?
469 00:26:56 You are not so affected now.
470 00:27:00 Oh! We're moving!
471 00:27:02 - Good, making data?- Yeah.
472 00:27:04 - That's good.- The seabed.
473 00:27:06 The, the seabed is, uh,is really flat,
474 00:27:08 which isa very good point for us.
475 00:27:10 Through the depressionlike that.
476 00:27:13 It's the perfect conditionfor finding a wreck.
477 00:27:15 Exactly.
478 00:27:17 The only sonar datain the world of the site.
479 00:27:20 We are the first one. Yeah!
480 00:27:22 - Yeah!- Yeah!
481 00:27:24 Your stupid planis coming together.
482 00:27:28 So let's tryto review quickly,
483 00:27:30 with this vehicle on the seabed,what we will see.
484 00:27:34 The primary sensoris a side-scan sonar.
485 00:27:38 This is a low-frequencyside-scan sonar signature
486 00:27:41 of a wreckwhich is roughly
487 00:27:42 the same sizeas the Endurance.
488 00:27:46 It may not look like much,
489 00:27:47 but this is what the Endurancewill look like on the screen.
490 00:27:53 It will be two meters
491 00:27:54 below the surface,40 meter astern.
492 00:27:57 Forty meters below the surface.
493 00:27:58 You will pull slowlywhen I say...
494 00:28:07 To go to Antarctica, youneed an exceptional team.
495 00:28:11 I've been working withthe people on my team
496 00:28:13 for almost 25 years.
497 00:28:17 So we've gotten to know eachother and become very close.
498 00:28:23 We've got some pretty impressiveprojects under our belt.
499 00:28:26 We have several world records.
500 00:28:29 For me, Endurance22 is my firstexpedition to Antarctica and
501 00:28:34 this is the first time I'vebeen back out at sea
502 00:28:38 since the death of my wife.
503 00:28:42 I lost Sévereinein 2017 to cancer.
504 00:28:48 This was one of the mostdifficult times of my life.
505 00:28:53 So going back out to sea isreally good for me.
506 00:28:57 And for us, we'relike a family.
507 00:29:00 I usually say I'mthe big brother,
508 00:29:02 but they don't agree with that.
509 00:29:05 So yes, I'm thedad of this team.
510 00:29:11 If we find the wreck,
511 00:29:13 it will be the team success.
512 00:29:15 But if we fail,it will be my failure.
513 00:29:18 Because I was in charge.
514 00:29:28 About the middle of February,
515 00:29:30 the temperature dropped as lowas 20 degrees below zero.
516 00:29:35 All precautions were takento prepare the ship for winter.
517 00:29:41 But the Endurance's companyrefused to abandon
518 00:29:44 their customary cheerfulness.
519 00:29:47 Certainly a good dealof our cheerfulness
520 00:29:49 is due to the order and routinewhich Sir E establishes.
521 00:29:54 We had our ownspecial duties to perform.
522 00:29:57 In my own case,I was kept quite busy
523 00:29:59 attending to four-hourlyrecords of temperature,
524 00:30:01 noting atmospheric pressures,wind force, and direction.
525 00:30:09 Our cabinson deck began to get too cold
526 00:30:12 as the temperaturesdropped lower.
527 00:30:14 So the cargo was clearedout of the tween decks,
528 00:30:16 and we built ourselvescubicles there
529 00:30:19 and lived down therethroughout the winter months.
530 00:30:22 This was christened the Ritz,
531 00:30:24 the wardroom abovebeing known as the Stables.
532 00:30:28 The Ritz served as an areain which members could relax,
533 00:30:32 read, play cards,and while away the time.
534 00:30:35 ♪ It's a long wayto Tipperary ♪
535 00:30:41 Our appetites were tremendous
536 00:30:43 and the kind of foodwe had a craving for
537 00:30:45 might make a little appealto civilized tastes.
538 00:30:48 Seal blubber, for instance,was our greatest delicacy,
539 00:30:52 and I often usedto eat it raw.
540 00:30:56 It is our customto drink to sweethearts
541 00:30:58 and wivesevery Saturday night,
542 00:31:01 which all hands dowith much fervor.
543 00:31:04 At midnight, we had cocoaand wished Sir Ernest
544 00:31:07 many happy returningsof his 41st birthday.
545 00:31:17 We said goodbyeto the sun on May the 1st
546 00:31:20 and entered the periodof twilight
547 00:31:21 that would be followedby the darkness of midwinter.
548 00:31:28 The disappearanceof the sun is apt to be
549 00:31:30 a depressing eventin the polar regions
550 00:31:32 where the long monthsof darkness
551 00:31:34 involve mental as wellas physical strain.
552 00:31:40 A form of midwinter madness
553 00:31:43 has manifested itself,
554 00:31:45 all hands being seizedwith the desire
555 00:31:48 to have their hair removed.
556 00:31:52 It causedmuch amusement.
557 00:31:55 We resemblea cargo of convicts.
558 00:32:00 Greenstreet,the first officer,
559 00:32:02 at that moment,knocked at the cabin door.
560 00:32:05 He said to Shackleton,"The play can begin, sir,
561 00:32:08 whenever you are ready."
562 00:32:11 Shackleton said,"In five minutes,
563 00:32:13 you can go backand say so."
564 00:32:15 Greenstreet could neverhave guessed
565 00:32:17 that a few minutes earlier,
566 00:32:18 the Great Explorer had brokento me that tragic news.
567 00:32:23 He said, "The ship can't livein this, Skipper.
568 00:32:27 "It is only a matter of time.
569 00:32:30 What the ice gets,the ice keeps."
570 00:32:34 We would be cast homelessupon the dreary waste of ice
571 00:32:38 from which so few returned.
572 00:32:43 To the men, Shackleton wasthe cheery, happy chief
573 00:32:46 who was leading themin a great
574 00:32:48 and successful adventure.
575 00:32:51 And a few minutes later,
576 00:32:52 sure enough,we were in the Ritz
577 00:32:54 laughing heartilyat one of the burlesques
578 00:32:57 that our men had becomeadept at producing.
579 00:33:02 The ship had become to them,
580 00:33:03 as to me,the center of the universe.
581 00:33:08 How would they bewithout the ship?
582 00:33:20 I mean,imagine being here
583 00:33:21 in a tiny little wooden boat.
584 00:33:23 No GPS, no... nothing.
585 00:33:26 And then the leader says, "Oh,by the way, boys, we're stuck.
586 00:33:29 And, uh, we're gonna spendthe winter here."
587 00:33:31 You'd be like, "Ah, great,
588 00:33:32 well,my wife's gonna kill me."
589 00:33:42 Everything isabsolutely perfect.
590 00:33:44 The vehicle is ready.
591 00:33:45 Everything is ready.The tether is ready.
592 00:33:48 However, the vesselis stuck in ice.
593 00:33:56 This is reallyfrustrating.
594 00:33:59 We are not able to reach
595 00:34:00 the next positionfor the next dive.
596 00:34:02 And we are losing time.
597 00:34:12 Exercise patience.
598 00:34:15 Patience, patience. Yeah.
599 00:34:17 Yes, so they say.
600 00:34:26 That's, um,heli-helicopter fuel,
601 00:34:28 so it's got 20,000 litersof helicopter fuel in it.
602 00:34:34 They use a special techniquewhere they're swinging
603 00:34:36 the container from sideto side across the bow
604 00:34:39 to roll the shipand that then loosens it.
605 00:34:50 So they're bringingthe container back on now.
606 00:34:54 And then they'llstart moving forward.
607 00:35:06 I think we haveover the next two days
608 00:35:09 a very stable driftin this direction,
609 00:35:10 but then something is happening,we have a shift,
610 00:35:13 and you see, like,every six hours
611 00:35:16 we get a new forecast.
612 00:35:17 So just to give you an ideaof the uncertainties
613 00:35:20 we have to deal with.
614 00:35:24 The environment of Antarctica
615 00:35:26 is a very special place.
616 00:35:29 You're completely distant.
617 00:35:31 It's as if you're steppingout of the real world.
618 00:35:36 I've sort of lost count,but I think this is
619 00:35:37 my 25th expeditionto Antarctica.
620 00:35:40 Going to Antarcticais very addictive.
621 00:35:42 You can, you can askmy wife about that.
622 00:35:46 Uh, it-it's somethingthat once you've seen it,
623 00:35:48 you know, you-you've gotthis drive to always go back.
624 00:35:56 And Shackleton, you know,he also had this drive
625 00:35:59 to go back to Antarctica.
626 00:36:04 You'd be hard-pressedto find a guy
627 00:36:05 with more Antarctic experiencethan John Shears.
628 00:36:08 He was head of logistics forthe British Antarctic Survey,
629 00:36:10 which isthe British group responsible
630 00:36:12 for, um,Antarctic operations.
631 00:36:15 He's been awardedthe Polar Medal
632 00:36:17 by Her Majesty the Queen,
633 00:36:18 which is the same medalthat Shackleton was awarded.
634 00:36:24 I started doing expeditions
635 00:36:26 then when I was about 17, 18,
636 00:36:28 and then continuedat university.
637 00:36:31 I come from a farming familyin Devon, in England.
638 00:36:35 I was very closeto my grandmother,
639 00:36:37 and my grandmother, um,
640 00:36:39 never had the opportunityt-to travel.
641 00:36:42 And my grandmother,as a small girl,
642 00:36:45 had gone into Exeter,to the museum there,
643 00:36:48 and they hadan Antarctic presentation.
644 00:36:51 And she alwaysremembered that.
645 00:36:52 That was the first timeI heard
646 00:36:53 about Ernest Shackleton.
647 00:36:58 Gram was always wanting meand my two brothers
648 00:37:00 to get experience of whatthe world might be like.
649 00:37:04 And here I am, and I've been,you know, to the Arctic,
650 00:37:07 to the Antarctic in the spaceof two generations.
651 00:37:18 August the 1st, 1915.
652 00:37:22 At 10:00 a.m., the floe beganto move in our vicinity,
653 00:37:26 driving tongues of icebelow the ship
654 00:37:29 and heeling us overto starboard.
655 00:37:34 We felt like pygmies,
656 00:37:35 as millions of tonsof moving ice crushed
657 00:37:38 and smashed inexorablyall around us.
658 00:37:42 I kept on thinking to myself,how long can this last?
659 00:37:47 How long?
660 00:37:51 Every timberwas straining to rupture.
661 00:37:55 The decks gaped.Doors refused to open or shut.
662 00:37:59 The floor coverings buckled,and the iron floor plates
663 00:38:01 in the engine room bulgedand sprung from their seating.
664 00:38:05 Everything was in a stateof extreme compression.
665 00:38:18 ♪ Oh, I met withNapper Tandy ♪
666 00:38:20 ♪ And he took meby the hand... ♪
667 00:38:22 They were listeningto the gramophone
668 00:38:23 when it happened.
669 00:38:25 They felt this waveof pressure building.
670 00:38:26 It was like an earthquake,
671 00:38:28 ship shudderingas the ice pressed in.
672 00:38:32 Pressure throughout the day,
673 00:38:34 increasing to terrific forceat 4:00 p.m.,
674 00:38:38 smashing rudder,
675 00:38:39 rudder post,and stern post.
676 00:38:43 The ship wasmaking water rapidly aft.
677 00:38:51 I had the pumps rigged,got up steam,
678 00:38:53 and started the bilge pumpsat 8:00 p.m.
679 00:39:00 We pumpedthree days and nights
680 00:39:02 without sleep,
681 00:39:03 but we could notpump her dry.
682 00:39:08 It was at this time
683 00:39:10 that a strange occurrencetook place.
684 00:39:13 For some months, we had seenno emperor penguins.
685 00:39:16 Now eight of them madea sudden appearance,
686 00:39:19 walking slowlytowards the ship.
687 00:39:21 We had always consideredthese birds
688 00:39:22 to be practically mute,
689 00:39:25 but on this occasion,
690 00:39:26 they proceededto utter cries
691 00:39:28 that sounded likea dirge for the ship.
692 00:39:31 The effect of this death callwas ominous and startling.
693 00:39:40 On October 26th,the end came.
694 00:39:44 All hopes of accomplishingour objective vanished.
695 00:39:51 Shackleton met the crisis
696 00:39:52 with complete composure.
697 00:39:54 He gave orders as thoughwe were setting out
698 00:39:56 on justa sledging expedition.
699 00:40:02 But to Shackleton,not only was it
700 00:40:03 an incrediblydangerous development,
701 00:40:06 they were nowin mortal peril.
702 00:40:08 But it was also a sign
703 00:40:09 of a complete failureof the expedition.
704 00:40:12 This is probably Shackletonat his lowest point.
705 00:40:14 I don't thinkit can get any worse.
706 00:40:17 It can physically.
707 00:40:19 But for Shackleton,I think this is the trough.
708 00:40:24 He knew this wasthe end of his dreams.
709 00:40:37 There wasno protection to be had
710 00:40:39 from the angry worldof snows and wind.
711 00:40:44 They had a tough first night.
712 00:40:45 They bedded down on the ice.
713 00:40:46 They drew lotsfor the fur sleeping bags.
714 00:40:49 They didn't have enough.
715 00:40:51 Three times that night,
716 00:40:52 our floe cracked dangerouslyunder our tents.
717 00:40:56 Three times, we had to move.
718 00:41:01 For myself,I could not sleep.
719 00:41:04 I walked up and downin the darkness.
720 00:41:06 The task now was to securethe safety of the party.
721 00:41:11 He pivoted.
722 00:41:12 There was no morewalking across Antarctica.
723 00:41:14 In that 12-hour period,
724 00:41:16 he completelyflips his outlook.
725 00:41:19 And from that moment on,he is laser focused
726 00:41:21 on getting those men home.
727 00:41:29 At dawn the next morning,
728 00:41:30 Shackleton and Wild,like good Samaritans,
729 00:41:33 made hot tea for all hands.
730 00:41:36 This they took alongto the inmates
731 00:41:38 of the various tents.
732 00:41:43 Shackleton madea characteristic speech,
733 00:41:46 the sort of speechthat only he could make.
734 00:41:49 He told the mennot to be alarmed
735 00:41:51 at the loss of the vessel
736 00:41:53 and assured them thatby hard effort, clean work,
737 00:41:56 and loyal cooperation,
738 00:41:58 they could maketheir way to land.
739 00:42:02 This speech hadan immediate effect.
740 00:42:05 Our spirits rose.
741 00:42:12 It was decidedto try and march
742 00:42:14 across the floesto a small island
743 00:42:17 called Paulet Island.
744 00:42:20 It would be necessaryto take the boats
745 00:42:22 as the last part of the journeywould be by water.
746 00:42:26 So everyone started to preparefor the sledging journey.
747 00:42:32 Now a last changeof clothing was issued.
748 00:42:35 The dress consistsof Burberry overalls
749 00:42:36 over a suit of warm underwear,a pair of ordinary trousers,
750 00:42:41 and a thick sweater.
751 00:42:47 Shackleton decided to cut down
752 00:42:49 every ounceof superfluous weight.
753 00:42:52 Once more,he gave us the lead
754 00:42:54 when he threw awaya gold watch,
755 00:42:57 a gold cigarette case,and several gold sovereigns.
756 00:43:02 I torethe fly leaf out of the Bible
757 00:43:04 that Queen Alexandrahad given to the ship
758 00:43:06 with her own writings in it.
759 00:43:09 The order was thatpersonal gear
760 00:43:11 must not exceedtwo pounds per man.
761 00:43:14 And this meant that nothingbut bare necessities
762 00:43:17 were to be takenon the march.
763 00:43:22 It was shortlyafter leaving the ship
764 00:43:23 that I heardShackleton calling for me.
765 00:43:26 "What's that, sir?"I asked.
766 00:43:28 "Your banjo,"replied Shackleton.
767 00:43:31 This is the banjothat Shackleton saved
768 00:43:33 just before the ship sank.
769 00:43:35 He called itVital Mental Medicine.
770 00:43:44 Next day,we started a march
771 00:43:45 to the westward.
772 00:43:47 The dogs dragged the storeson the seven smaller sledges.
773 00:43:51 I took charge of 16 men,
774 00:43:53 dragging our three boatsplaced on the larger sledges.
775 00:44:00 The boats weighedabout one ton each with gear.
776 00:44:04 The going was frightful,and the labor was appalling
777 00:44:07 and our progress all too slowfor the energy expended.
778 00:44:16 They didn't get very far.
779 00:44:18 Two days later,they gave up
780 00:44:20 and theyestablished a camp.
781 00:44:27 Our new camp,
782 00:44:28 to which we gavethe name Ocean Camp,
783 00:44:31 lay about a mileand a half distant
784 00:44:33 from the watery graveof the Endurance.
785 00:44:38 Well, the poor olddark room was crushed.
786 00:44:40 And we found it was beneathabout six feet of mushy ice.
787 00:44:45 But what does one dowhen you have buried treasure
788 00:44:48 to the value of 20,000 pounds
789 00:44:49 beneath six feetof mushy ice?
790 00:44:53 I peeled offand in an instant,
791 00:44:55 I was in that mushy iceand roping for the cases.
792 00:44:58 The first case,I got out in quick time.
793 00:44:59 I took a breather and downunderneath the ice again
794 00:45:02 and upwith the second case.
795 00:45:09 The ship beganto violently move
796 00:45:11 under the pressureof the ice.
797 00:45:14 So there was nothing elsefor us to do
798 00:45:16 but to make for the floe,just for our dear lives
799 00:45:18 as quickly as we could.
800 00:45:25 Shackleton returned to the ship
801 00:45:27 for his final visit,
802 00:45:28 and he took the flare gun.
803 00:45:32 Hurley, Wild,
804 00:45:33 and self went into ship,
805 00:45:36 said goodbye,fired a bomb in farewell.
806 00:45:46 It was Shackleton himself
807 00:45:48 who first saw the shipbegin its slide.
808 00:45:50 He just saw the funneljust twitch.
809 00:45:55 We dashedonto the lookout platform
810 00:45:57 that had been erected.
811 00:45:58 And from there, we watchedthe death of the ship
812 00:46:01 that had carried usso far and so well
813 00:46:04 and that had put upsuch a brave fight
814 00:46:06 as ever a ship had fought.
815 00:46:11 Shackleton saidquietly to the men,
816 00:46:13 "She's gone, boys."
817 00:46:19 Shackleton haddrummed into them
818 00:46:21 by then that what he expectedof every one of them
819 00:46:24 was optimism,optimism, optimism.
820 00:46:27 How could they not,at that moment,
821 00:46:29 think about what their chancesof survival really were?
822 00:46:35 And, you know,it's got to be said,
823 00:46:36 chances of survivalwere pretty negligible.
824 00:46:53 Okay, let's findthe Endurance!
825 00:46:56 We need to catch it now.
826 00:46:57 I don't want the other, uh,
827 00:46:59 the other shift to have it.
828 00:47:19 Okay, we called all the data?
829 00:47:22 Yeah, we're ready.Let's do this.
830 00:47:25 There's a kind of superstitionin our profession.
831 00:47:28 that if you don't have faith init it, nothing will happen.
832 00:47:32 So, despite everything.
833 00:47:34 we try to believe it and think,
834 00:47:37 "Okay, our luck's gonna change.We have to be able to find it."
835 00:47:49 - Sinking location.- Yeah. Ooh.
836 00:47:53 Ah, come on!
837 00:47:55 That's a shipwreck.
838 00:47:56 Come on, boys!
839 00:48:03 Open the bar!Open the bar!
840 00:48:05 Open the bar!
841 00:48:09 - Yeah?- Morning, Mensun.
842 00:48:12 - Some news?- Good news.
843 00:48:19 John!
844 00:48:23 We're gonna be guttedwhen it's a pile of boulders.
845 00:48:26 I'm just messing, this can't be,it's not possible.
846 00:48:29 This is it.This is the great moment.
847 00:48:32 We found the wreckof Endurance.
848 00:48:34 Are we quite...are we quite, quite sure?
849 00:48:37 Oh, geez. Yes!
850 00:48:41 I'm only gonna believe itwhen I see it.
851 00:48:43 - Yeah...- So about that point, precisely,
852 00:48:48 because the vehicle,uh, is low in batteries,
853 00:48:52 we have not been ableto follow normal protocol
854 00:48:55 and make a videoof the wreck.
855 00:48:57 So now, we haveto secure the data...
856 00:49:01 - Mm-hmm.- ...on the next dive.
857 00:49:06 Um, hi, gentlemen.
858 00:49:08 - Hi!- Hello.
859 00:49:09 - Somebody please show me.- Yeah, yes.
860 00:49:12 - Oh, my gosh!- Just over there.
861 00:49:14 Look at that!
862 00:49:15 And she was just
863 00:49:16 400 meters north.
864 00:49:18 From the actual positionthat Worsley gave?
865 00:49:20 - Yeah.- I can see that,
866 00:49:22 I can't believe it.Worsley really was an ace!
867 00:49:25 - We can't believe it as well.- I am stunned.
868 00:49:28 Guys, thank you all.
869 00:49:29 This is justthe best moment ever,
870 00:49:32 and I'm so pr-proud
871 00:49:33 and pleased to be ableto share it with you.
872 00:49:35 Yeah. Hurrah.
873 00:49:37 Yay! Hoorah!
874 00:49:40 Mensun,I don't know about you,
875 00:49:42 but I've been swingingfrom optimism
876 00:49:43 to pessimismover the last...
877 00:49:44 Yeah, it was like that.Yeah.
878 00:49:46 But we're rightover the spot,
879 00:49:47 right where Frank Worsleysaid he sank.
880 00:49:50 But that in all my life,
881 00:49:51 I've never known a wreckto be where it said it was.
882 00:49:54 You know,here it is.
883 00:49:59 What do you think, Nico?
884 00:50:01 I say that I don't know.
885 00:50:05 I have evidencebut no proof.
886 00:50:09 I do not like gray area.I like black and white.
887 00:50:19 Sixty-five degrees,
888 00:50:21 sixteen and a half south.
889 00:50:22 Fifty-two degrees,four west.
890 00:50:25 No news.
891 00:50:27 Patience.Patience. Patience.
892 00:50:34 Our hope, of course,
893 00:50:35 was to drift northwardsto the edge of the pack
894 00:50:37 and then, when the icewas loose enough,
895 00:50:40 to take to the boatsand row to the nearest land.
896 00:50:46 February the 3rd,
897 00:50:48 the cocoa has been finishedfor some time,
898 00:50:51 and the tea isvery nearly done.
899 00:50:54 Soon our only beveragewill be milk.
900 00:50:56 The food now ispretty well all meat.
901 00:51:00 We had to catchpenguins and seals first
902 00:51:02 before we could doany cooking.
903 00:51:04 Now, to do cooking,we had to make a stove.
904 00:51:06 We made a stoveout of the funnel.
905 00:51:08 We-we used biscuit tinsand, uh, a paint drum.
906 00:51:13 Well, it took me eight hoursto cook a meal.
907 00:51:15 Between those eight hours,underneath used to melt,
908 00:51:18 and the stove usedto topple over.
909 00:51:20 Well, I didn't mindthat topping over
910 00:51:22 'cause I lost nothingbecause I just gathered up again
911 00:51:24 and put it back in the pot.
912 00:51:26 And they had to have itor go without.
913 00:51:34 The monotony of life here
914 00:51:35 is getting on our nerves.
915 00:51:37 Nothing to do,nowhere to walk.
916 00:51:40 That's the timewhen morale breaks,
917 00:51:42 when there's nothingwhatsoever to do
918 00:51:44 and nothing youcan do about it.
919 00:51:50 Then theyexperienced squabbling.
920 00:51:53 Tuesday, March the 28th.
921 00:51:55 This morning,there was quite a lot
922 00:51:57 of unpleasantness on rising.
923 00:51:59 Greenstreet got
924 00:52:00 his precious rationof hot milk spilt,
925 00:52:04 and he broke down.
926 00:52:06 Quietly,everyone gathered around
927 00:52:09 and poured outa tiny bit of milk
928 00:52:11 into his cup.
929 00:52:13 That really showshow on edge they all were,
930 00:52:16 but also it shows theylooked out for each other.
931 00:52:29 Perfect.
932 00:52:33 Okay. Robbie,everything is secured
933 00:52:34 and all the slackis off the deck.
934 00:52:36 You're clear to dive.
935 00:52:37 Okay. Copy that.
936 00:52:39 Diving to a 100 meters first.
937 00:52:41 This dive couldwell be the difference
938 00:52:43 between a claimof finding a shipwreck
939 00:52:46 and seeing Endurance.
940 00:52:54 Are we...
941 00:52:55 going infor a quick inspection
942 00:52:57 or what is...what's the plan?
943 00:52:58 Yes, please.
944 00:53:00 Okay, I'll start turning around.
945 00:53:20 We feel we areon the target now?
946 00:53:22 Yeah, I think this is it.
947 00:53:26 This just lookslike seabed to me, like...
948 00:53:31 Stop, stop.
949 00:53:34 Looks like a spoon
950 00:53:35 sticking out of something,don't it?
951 00:53:38 Look at the shape of that.
952 00:53:39 I think it's a rock.
953 00:53:40 You got marine growth here.
954 00:53:42 - Yeah.- Looks like a piece of wood.
955 00:53:44 I was gonna sayit could be a heavy timber.
956 00:53:46 Could be a bitof planking.
957 00:53:49 It's true that the videosaren't extremely clear either,
958 00:53:52 but there's no wreckor ship to be seen.
959 00:53:55 I think there isno point to stay down here.
960 00:53:58 - Okay.- Yeah, I think, uh...
961 00:54:00 Continue the search.
962 00:54:01 Resume the search.
963 00:54:03 There's no doubt about it.
964 00:54:05 We have a big debris field.
965 00:54:07 It's manmade,it's from the wreck.
966 00:54:09 So it's part of thevessel. Not the vessel.
967 00:54:14 Yeah.
968 00:54:16 I felt a big crack in my headand in my heart.
969 00:54:22 I could hear Shackleton himselflaughing his head off there
970 00:54:24 somewhere in the,in the background,
971 00:54:26 'cause we made foolsof ourselves.
972 00:54:37 And suddenly, theclock that had stopped
973 00:54:39 just started again.
974 00:54:40 "Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick."
975 00:54:42 And we are back to racingagainst the clock.
976 00:54:47 Pull up!
977 00:54:56 You know,these, these side-scans
978 00:54:58 really can play you false.
979 00:54:59 We have made huge mistakesbefore in the past.
980 00:55:02 We, we found the submarine,but we didn't recognize it.
981 00:55:05 We thought it was wrong.That was...
982 00:55:07 - Uh, yes, yeah.- ...an expensive mistake.
983 00:55:09 Mm. Sometimesthings don't go right
984 00:55:12 for you in life, you know.
985 00:55:14 I think we've all faced that,
986 00:55:16 and it's coming backfrom that adversity
987 00:55:19 and in 2019,it was a nightmare.
988 00:55:21 Absolute nightmare.
989 00:55:22 You put in your blog,Mensun,
990 00:55:24 you said that we came backwith our tail between our legs.
991 00:55:27 - Oh, yeah.- I wouldn't have quite put it
992 00:55:28 in those words,but that's what...
993 00:55:30 - We did.- ...that's what you said.
994 00:55:31 And here we are.
995 00:55:34 And if sometimes you haveto fail to succeed.
996 00:55:48 We had foodonly for four weeks.
997 00:55:52 We had nothing to keep outthe biting cold
998 00:55:54 save linen tents.
999 00:55:57 We are rusting and wastingour lives away
1000 00:56:00 while the whole worldis at war,
1001 00:56:02 and we know nothingof how it goes.
1002 00:56:09 Owing tothe shortage of food
1003 00:56:10 and the fact thatwe needed all
1004 00:56:12 that we could getfor ourselves,
1005 00:56:14 I had to orderthe dogs to be shot.
1006 00:56:20 I shot Sirius today.
1007 00:56:22 It went horriblyagainst the grain
1008 00:56:24 to put an endto this fine young animal,
1009 00:56:26 which all the time was makingjoyous overtures to me.
1010 00:56:30 My hand was shaking so much
1011 00:56:32 that I had to usetwo cartridges
1012 00:56:34 to finish him off.
1013 00:56:36 Poor beast.
1014 00:56:39 The youngest pupsthat had been born on board
1015 00:56:42 were shot,
1016 00:56:43 and so was Mrs. Chippy,
1017 00:56:44 the carpenter's cat.
1018 00:56:48 There wasnot much fun in eating
1019 00:56:50 the tough old dogs,
1020 00:56:52 but the little puppieswere tender.
1021 00:56:57 A casual observer might think
1022 00:56:59 the explorera frozen-hearted individual,
1023 00:57:02 especially if he noticedthe mouths watering
1024 00:57:04 when tears oughtto be expected.
1025 00:57:08 Hunger brings us allto the level of other species.
1026 00:57:20 On the 9th of April,their ice floe splits again,
1027 00:57:22 and it's untenable.
1028 00:57:23 They cannot live onthese little slivers of ice,
1029 00:57:25 and they take to the boats.
1030 00:57:29 Getting into these open boats
1031 00:57:30 is one of the mostterrible things you can do.
1032 00:57:36 Shackleton tookcommand of one boat,
1033 00:57:38 Hudson the smallest,
1034 00:57:39 and I was in chargeof the third.
1035 00:57:44 Right from the very start,
1036 00:57:45 we ran into trouble.
1037 00:57:47 We were passing downa long, very wide lead,
1038 00:57:51 Shackleton in the leading boat,
1039 00:57:53 when we heard him shoutingand pointing to port.
1040 00:57:58 I couldn't believe my eyes.
1041 00:58:01 The ice was rushing towards usjust like a tidal wave.
1042 00:58:06 We shouted to the boat asternand pulled for our lives.
1043 00:58:10 And both of us clearedthe point of impact.
1044 00:58:17 The journey got very much
1045 00:58:18 more difficult after that.
1046 00:58:20 Men get terrible diarrhea,
1047 00:58:21 their drinkingwater's contaminated,
1048 00:58:24 their clothes arefreezing solid on them.
1049 00:58:27 Their feet arecompletely submerged
1050 00:58:30 in freezing seawater.
1051 00:58:34 Hopes were running high
1052 00:58:36 as to the noon observationfor position.
1053 00:58:40 Worsley snapped the sun.
1054 00:58:43 It wasa grievous disappointment.
1055 00:58:47 Rather than making progress,
1056 00:58:48 they foundto their absolute dismay
1057 00:58:51 that they were 30 milesto the east
1058 00:58:54 of where they'd started from.
1059 00:59:00 Just giventhe way the wind is pushing,
1060 00:59:02 Elephant Islandquite quickly becomes
1061 00:59:04 the most obviousdestination.
1062 00:59:12 Sea and wind increaseand have to draw up
1063 00:59:14 onto an old, isolated floeand pray to God
1064 00:59:17 it will remain entirethroughout the night.
1065 00:59:20 No sleep for 48 hours,all wet, cold, and miserable.
1066 00:59:32 When we woke next morning,
1067 00:59:33 there wasa huge sea running.
1068 00:59:35 The ice had all closedround us,
1069 00:59:37 and we were being batteredby the huge floes.
1070 00:59:40 There seemed no chanceof saving our lives.
1071 00:59:42 Then, to make matters worse,
1072 00:59:44 a crack appearedright through the center.
1073 00:59:47 - We thought this the very end.
1074 00:59:50 And we were, all of us,
1075 00:59:52 at the pointof shaking hands and saying,
1076 00:59:54 "Well, cheerio, lads.This is the end.
1077 00:59:57 A great gamewhile it lasted."
1078 01:00:00 When a miracle happened.
1079 01:00:02 The ice started to recedefrom our floe
1080 01:00:04 by some trickof the current
1081 01:00:06 and left us in a big patchof open water.
1082 01:00:10 Just one of thesemillion-to-one chances
1083 01:00:13 that sometimes come alongat the right moment.
1084 01:00:22 Shackleton was now very concerned
1085 01:00:23 about the conditionof many of his men.
1086 01:00:26 All of us had swollen mouths
1087 01:00:28 and found thatwe could hardly touch food.
1088 01:00:32 We weredreadfully thirsty now.
1089 01:00:34 We found that we couldget momentary relief
1090 01:00:37 by chewing piecesof raw seal meat
1091 01:00:39 and swallowing the blood.
1092 01:00:41 But thirst came backwith redoubled force,
1093 01:00:44 owing to the saltinessof the flesh.
1094 01:00:50 They spotElephant Island
1095 01:00:51 in the afternoon.
1096 01:00:53 They cannot riskapproaching at night.
1097 01:00:56 So they choose to tiethe boats together
1098 01:00:58 and wait out at sea.
1099 01:01:03 I was seasickduring this night
1100 01:01:05 and very miserable,
1101 01:01:07 sodden, frozen, and sick.
1102 01:01:10 McLeod growledcontinually all night.
1103 01:01:12 Men cursed each other,
1104 01:01:14 and the sea, the boatand everything curseable.
1105 01:01:19 That is whenPerce Blackborow
1106 01:01:21 first got very bad frostbiteon his toes.
1107 01:01:26 They're in a stateof extraordinary misery.
1108 01:01:30 Frank Wild said of that nightthat half of the expedition
1109 01:01:34 were insane, helpless,and hopeless.
1110 01:01:50 We have extended thesearch to the north
1111 01:01:52 and for now we havefound nothing.
1112 01:01:55 Here, there is a partof the Endurance.
1113 01:02:00 Okay? This is the only thingthat we can say.
1114 01:02:03 So now we have to do
1115 01:02:04 the maximum of coveragein the minimum of time
1116 01:02:07 and try to coverthe entire search box.
1117 01:02:28 So what do we haveto do to find the wreck?
1118 01:02:30 Oh, I don't know.
1119 01:02:32 Huh? What else?
1120 01:02:36 So I discussedwith the Falklands
1121 01:02:38 Maritime Heritage Trust
1122 01:02:39 about giving us an extension.
1123 01:02:42 And, uh, they said yup,
1124 01:02:44 we can take another 10 dayson the charter.
1125 01:02:46 But all depending onyour judgment as captain
1126 01:02:49 whether, uh, it's safe enoughfor us to stay on site.
1127 01:02:53 I'm not opposed to that.
1128 01:02:55 The ice dictateswhat needs to happen.
1129 01:02:57 So, so we are thinkingthat we review it
1130 01:02:59 on an hourly basis with you.
1131 01:03:02 The only thing is,
1132 01:03:04 I just have to make surethat we don't stay here
1133 01:03:07 and become a,another Shackleton.
1134 01:03:33 The coastof Elephant Island presented
1135 01:03:35 a barrier of sheer cliffand glacier faces,
1136 01:03:39 wild and savagebeyond description.
1137 01:03:47 You wouldnever have recognized
1138 01:03:48 the crowd of men thatlanded on Elephant Island
1139 01:03:51 from those that gotinto the boats
1140 01:03:53 a week previous,haggard and drawn,
1141 01:03:56 split with frostbitefrom exposure.
1142 01:03:59 We had aged 20 yearsin a week.
1143 01:04:05 Many sufferedfrom temporary aberration,
1144 01:04:08 walking aimlessly about,
1145 01:04:10 others shiveringas with palsy.
1146 01:04:17 They werelaughing uproariously,
1147 01:04:20 picking up stonesand letting handfuls of pebbles
1148 01:04:22 trickle betweentheir fingers,
1149 01:04:24 like misers gloatingover hoarded gold.
1150 01:04:31 Conceive our joyon setting foot on solid earth
1151 01:04:34 after 170 days of life
1152 01:04:37 on a drifting ice floe.
1153 01:04:41 The first thingto do was have a drink.
1154 01:04:45 If I live to be a hundred,I shall never forget
1155 01:04:48 the feelingof that hot drink
1156 01:04:49 going down my throat.
1157 01:04:51 I wished that I had a necklike a giraffe
1158 01:04:54 so as to prolongthat exquisite feeling.
1159 01:05:02 "Thank God I haven'tkilled one of my men,"
1160 01:05:04 Shackleton said in ourfirst confidential talk
1161 01:05:06 on Elephant Island.
1162 01:05:08 Shackleton had always insisted
1163 01:05:11 that the ultimateresponsibility
1164 01:05:13 for anythingthat befell us
1165 01:05:14 was his and his only.
1166 01:05:17 His attitude wasalmost patriarchal.
1167 01:05:20 This may have accountedfor the men's
1168 01:05:22 unquestioning devotionto him.
1169 01:05:31 Today, our first jobwas to build a house.
1170 01:05:34 We piled up some rocks,turned the two small boats
1171 01:05:37 upside down on top of them,
1172 01:05:38 and packed ice and snowinto the cracks.
1173 01:05:41 It was a dreadful little hut.We had no light at first.
1174 01:05:46 Then we made a little lamp
1175 01:05:47 by stewing downsome seal blubber
1176 01:05:49 with a piece of twistedbandage for a wick.
1177 01:05:52 The lamp burnedwith a tiny smoky flame
1178 01:05:54 that only madethe darkness seem darker.
1179 01:05:58 But Shackletonvery quickly realized
1180 01:06:00 that they couldn't stay.
1181 01:06:01 It wasn't a placewhere the whalers went.
1182 01:06:04 Nobody was goingto rescue them there.
1183 01:06:08 To remain meant death
1184 01:06:09 from slow starvationor from exposure.
1185 01:06:12 The situation was desperate.
1186 01:06:14 But again, our leaderrose to the occasion.
1187 01:06:20 He decides their onlyrealistic way of escape
1188 01:06:23 is to take with himfive fit strong sailors
1189 01:06:26 and then usethe prevailing winds
1190 01:06:28 to undertakean 800-mile journey
1191 01:06:30 across the most terrifyingstretch of ocean
1192 01:06:32 on the planet,towards South Georgia,
1193 01:06:35 where they can seek helpand hopefully come back
1194 01:06:37 and rescue everyonethey've left behind.
1195 01:06:42 "I'm afraidit's a forlorn hope," he said.
1196 01:06:46 "I don't askanyone to come
1197 01:06:48 who has not thoroughlyweighed the chances."
1198 01:06:51 The moment he ceased speaking,every man volunteered.
1199 01:06:56 Five of us were chosen.
1200 01:06:59 To give himselfslightly better odds,
1201 01:07:00 he did make some changesto the biggest
1202 01:07:03 and most seaworthyof their lifeboats,
1203 01:07:06 the James Caird.
1204 01:07:08 He put extra plankingon the side.
1205 01:07:10 They covered some ofthe open boat with canvas.
1206 01:07:13 They filled up the bottomof the boat with ballasts,
1207 01:07:16 and they put the mastof one of the other boats
1208 01:07:18 down the keelto stop it flexing so much.
1209 01:07:24 April 23rd.
1210 01:07:25 The Cairdis nearing completion
1211 01:07:27 and God willingleaves tomorrow.
1212 01:07:33 It is a dreadful thing
1213 01:07:34 to face your shipmates.
1214 01:07:36 Men who have been throughthick and thin with you.
1215 01:07:38 And to realize thatin all probability
1216 01:07:42 it is for the last time.
1217 01:07:44 And to know thatif you fail to come back,
1218 01:07:47 they will starve to death.
1219 01:07:58 By 12:30,the Caird hoisted sail
1220 01:08:01 to three ringing cheersfrom the shore.
1221 01:08:11 We all pretendedto have high spirits
1222 01:08:12 as we cheeredand waved to our comrades.
1223 01:08:15 Even though in our hearts,we felt strangely forlorn.
1224 01:08:29 Woo!
1225 01:08:30 Cold.Cold. Cold. Cold.
1226 01:08:34 The ice is stopping it.
1227 01:08:36 Just freezing.
1228 01:08:37 It was bitterly cold.
1229 01:08:38 And the guysare working out there,
1230 01:08:40 and they're not complaining,they're just getting on with it.
1231 01:08:42 But, you know,they're getting tired,
1232 01:08:44 and it's, um,and it takes it out of you.
1233 01:09:06 Come on,come on, come on.
1234 01:09:08 Just a bit of debris...
1235 01:09:10 with an arrowwould be good.
1236 01:09:26 We're not findinganything at all.
1237 01:09:28 And the temperaturesare gonna go basically,
1238 01:09:30 off a cliffin the next few days.
1239 01:09:32 And we'll have to callthe search off.
1240 01:09:39 It's getting a bit,
1241 01:09:40 sorta likedisheartening now, isn't it?
1242 01:09:41 - Yeah.- It's just like, pff.
1243 01:09:44 Okay, we'll call thatend of line now. Yeah?
1244 01:09:46 Okay. End of line.
1245 01:09:49 So it was not there.
1246 01:09:53 Y-you know,your hopes go sky-high,
1247 01:09:57 and then, you know, it's likea right hook to the chin,
1248 01:10:00 and, pompf, down you go.
1249 01:10:04 We are running outof days, aren't we?
1250 01:10:06 - Yeah.- Yeah.
1251 01:10:23 On the 24th of April,Shackleton sets off,
1252 01:10:25 and he wasn't a day too soon.
1253 01:10:28 The following day,
1254 01:10:29 Elephant Islandwas surrounded by ice.
1255 01:10:32 They'd have been trapped therefor another winter.
1256 01:10:41 The oceansouth of Cape Horn
1257 01:10:43 in the middle of Mayis known to be
1258 01:10:45 the most tempestuousstorm-swept area
1259 01:10:48 of water in the world.
1260 01:10:55 So small was our boat
1261 01:10:56 and so great were the seasthat often our sail
1262 01:10:59 flapped idly in the calm
1263 01:11:01 between the crestsof two waves.
1264 01:11:07 A great seawould break over us,
1265 01:11:09 pouring water in streamsover everything
1266 01:11:12 and making us feelwe were under a waterfall.
1267 01:11:19 Gradually, the constant soakingcaused our legs and feet
1268 01:11:22 to swell, turn white,
1269 01:11:24 and loseall surface sensibility.
1270 01:11:30 Over on Elephant Island,
1271 01:11:31 22 men were waitingfor the relief
1272 01:11:33 that we alonecould secure for them.
1273 01:11:37 Their plightwas worse than ours.
1274 01:11:41 Well, the hut was cramped
1275 01:11:42 and dark and dirty,
1276 01:11:44 and we were darkand dirty too.
1277 01:11:46 We had no breador biscuits
1278 01:11:49 and sometimes daysand days would go by
1279 01:11:51 without seal or penguinappearing on the island.
1280 01:11:55 I think that few peoplein the world
1281 01:11:57 have been as hungryas we were and have survived.
1282 01:12:02 Life here isalmost beyond endurance.
1283 01:12:06 We pray that the Cairdmay reach South Georgia safely
1284 01:12:09 and bring reliefwithout delay.
1285 01:12:19 Worsley tells them the course
1286 01:12:20 to steer if they wantto hit South Georgia.
1287 01:12:24 If they sailedpast South Georgia,
1288 01:12:27 there was nothingtill the coast of Africa
1289 01:12:29 thousands of miles ahead.
1290 01:12:31 They would perish somewherein the South Atlantic.
1291 01:12:38 At midnight,I was at the tiller
1292 01:12:40 and suddenly noticeda line of clear sky.
1293 01:12:44 I called to the other menthat the sky was clearing.
1294 01:12:48 And then a moment later,I realized that what I had seen
1295 01:12:50 was the white crestof an enormous wave.
1296 01:12:54 I shouted,"For God's sake, hold on!"
1297 01:12:58 I had never encountereda wave so gigantic.
1298 01:13:19 But somehow the boatlived through it,
1299 01:13:22 half full of water.
1300 01:13:25 We bailed with the energyof men fighting for life.
1301 01:13:29 Not until 3:00 a.m.,when we were all chilled,
1302 01:13:32 almost to the limitof endurance,
1303 01:13:34 did we manage to getthe stove alight
1304 01:13:36 and make ourselveshot drinks.
1305 01:13:43 They started seeingsome positive signs.
1306 01:13:45 They saw seabirds
1307 01:13:46 they knew didn't venturethat far from land.
1308 01:13:50 At 1 o'clockin the afternoon,
1309 01:13:52 we saw the peaks ofSouth Georgia straight ahead.
1310 01:13:58 But when they gotto South Georgia,
1311 01:14:00 they were on the wrong sideof the island.
1312 01:14:02 Where they wanted to bewas the other side,
1313 01:14:04 which is wherethe whaling stations were.
1314 01:14:08 Shackleton thought that Vincent
1315 01:14:09 and McNishwere at death's door.
1316 01:14:11 He could not risk sailing allthe way around South Georgia.
1317 01:14:16 They stoppedin the dying light
1318 01:14:17 'cause theycouldn't go in shore
1319 01:14:19 without being ableto see properly.
1320 01:14:23 Suddenly,the wind shifted on shore
1321 01:14:25 and increased to a gale
1322 01:14:26 of the mostextraordinary violence.
1323 01:14:38 The mast bentwith the force of it,
1324 01:14:39 and at one moment,we thought
1325 01:14:40 it was going to snap.
1326 01:14:44 The bow plankson each side opened and closed
1327 01:14:46 so that long lines of watersquirted into her.
1328 01:14:53 The chance of surviving
1329 01:14:54 the night seemed small.
1330 01:14:57 I think most of ushad a feeling
1331 01:14:58 that the end was very near.
1332 01:15:07 Then, just when things lookedtheir worst, they changed.
1333 01:15:12 The wind suddenly shifted.
1334 01:15:16 I have marveled oftenat the thin line
1335 01:15:18 that divides successfrom failure
1336 01:15:22 and the sudden turn that leadsfrom certain disaster
1337 01:15:25 to comparative safety.
1338 01:15:30 Then finally,on the 10th of May,
1339 01:15:31 they threadedthrough some rocks.
1340 01:15:33 They landed and they draggedthemselves up the beach.
1341 01:15:37 One more night at sea and theywould've certainly perished.
1342 01:15:46 It is remaining...
1343 01:15:49 - Elusive.- Yep.
1344 01:15:52 The light blue lineis the area covered,
1345 01:15:55 and the remaining largearea is the south channel
1346 01:15:58 on the next dive it will bemost probably on this block
1347 01:16:01 and we start tomove to the east.
1348 01:16:03 And then what?
1349 01:16:04 Do you think we are going tostay further to the south?
1350 01:16:07 For the moment my order is
1351 01:16:09 cover the box.
1352 01:16:11 Okay.
1353 01:16:17 This is it. We--on this dive, right here,
1354 01:16:19 we're gonna findthe Endurance.
1355 01:16:25 We have only a few days left.
1356 01:16:27 Winter is coming.
1357 01:16:29 Among all the peopleon board,
1358 01:16:30 we started to discuss a lot
1359 01:16:33 about how does Worsley know
1360 01:16:35 where the sinking position was.
1361 01:16:38 He just estimated.
1362 01:16:40 He hadn't been able to geta site for three days before,
1363 01:16:43 and it wasn't untilthe day after the ship sank
1364 01:16:46 that he was ableto get his next fix,
1365 01:16:49 so what was the directionof drift in between?
1366 01:16:52 That was the challenge.
1367 01:17:02 We just came upwith this idea now
1368 01:17:04 during the cruiseto use a dataset called ERA-20.
1369 01:17:07 It's a big European projectto, um, calculate the climate
1370 01:17:12 and weatherof the past 100 years
1371 01:17:14 based on weather station dataand physical models.
1372 01:17:16 Then we calculatedthe drift trajectory,
1373 01:17:19 uh, the Endurancemight have had
1374 01:17:22 around the 21stof November.
1375 01:17:24 So then the sinking locationwould have been here
1376 01:17:27 in the southern edgeof the box.
1377 01:17:30 In addition, John and me,we had the idea
1378 01:17:33 to look intothe meteorological observations
1379 01:17:37 of Husseyfrom that day.
1380 01:17:40 The Hussey'sobservations are great
1381 01:17:42 because theyare real observations,
1382 01:17:44 but they don't coverthe night.
1383 01:17:45 So I just threw the datainto a model product
1384 01:17:48 from re-analysis,which is basically a,
1385 01:17:50 a weather modelrun backwards.
1386 01:17:52 And actually we havequite some confidence
1387 01:17:54 that between the 18thand the 22nd,
1388 01:17:57 uh, the Endurancesomehow went south.
1389 01:18:00 That Worsley had no meansof, of observing it.
1390 01:18:03 So we do have to coverthat southern part
1391 01:18:05 of the search areain any case,
1392 01:18:06 which is whereyou're pointing us to.
1393 01:18:08 Nico, you're very quiet though.
1394 01:18:11 You're just ingesting it all.
1395 01:18:12 Yeah.
1396 01:18:14 You know,I am like a old computer.
1397 01:18:16 When I'm thinking too much,the screen freezing.
1398 01:18:22 Good?
1399 01:18:24 For me, for thesub-sea operation point of view,
1400 01:18:27 the real question is whywe are discovering this now,
1401 01:18:34 and not a year ago?
1402 01:18:38 Thirty percentof the box left
1403 01:18:39 and now he makes this wonderfulflipping prediction.
1404 01:18:42 If it's not in,i-i-i-it's not
1405 01:18:44 in a placethat we surveyed already.
1406 01:18:46 So what he's basically saidis it's somewhere
1407 01:18:47 that we haven't surveyedor somewhere else.
1408 01:18:50 Right. That--i-it's is not a prediction.
1409 01:18:52 I can make that prediction.
1410 01:18:54 I didn't goto flipping university
1411 01:18:55 and learn about flippingwhich ice goes best
1412 01:18:58 in me gin and tonic.
1413 01:19:09 What's our percentagecomplete now? Roughly?
1414 01:19:12 Uh... 73%.
1415 01:19:14 Starting to run outof some area here.
1416 01:19:19 Now that we have, um,
1417 01:19:21 a drift forecast,we have to link this
1418 01:19:24 with the reality ofthe debris field that we have.
1419 01:19:27 So if we applythe drift model
1420 01:19:29 on the large areaof debris of the wreck,
1421 01:19:32 then the wreck might beanywhere from here to here.
1422 01:19:36 But all this area hasalready been covered except...
1423 01:19:40 Except forthat little spot there.
1424 01:19:42 Except this little spot.
1425 01:19:43 So we haveto search on this area.
1426 01:19:50 The more the days goby, the more I think,
1427 01:19:53 "How can you be part ofShackleton's story and give up?"
1428 01:20:06 Shackleton was now
1429 01:20:08 on the remote,uninhabited side
1430 01:20:10 of one of the mostisolated islands on earth.
1431 01:20:14 He had to get roundto the whaling stations.
1432 01:20:19 I realized that the condition,
1433 01:20:21 particularly of McNishand Vincent,
1434 01:20:23 would prevent usputting to sea again.
1435 01:20:27 The alternative wasto attempt crossing the island.
1436 01:20:31 The island of South Georgia
1437 01:20:32 had never beencrossed by anybody.
1438 01:20:34 The whalers regardedthe country as inaccessible.
1439 01:20:39 Shackleton knewthat the mountain crossing
1440 01:20:41 was the desperate gambleof dying men.
1441 01:20:48 Worsley and Creanwere coming with me,
1442 01:20:50 and after consultation,we decided to leave
1443 01:20:53 the sleeping bags behind
1444 01:20:54 and make the journeyin very light marching order.
1445 01:20:59 Our equipmentwas three days' food
1446 01:21:01 slung around our necksin a sock,
1447 01:21:03 the old Primus lamp,
1448 01:21:05 an ax to cut steps in the ice,my little compass,
1449 01:21:08 and a blueprint mapof South Georgia.
1450 01:21:11 The carpenter assisted me
1451 01:21:13 by putting several screwsin the sole of each boot,
1452 01:21:16 providing a grip on the ice.
1453 01:21:20 He decided to makea nonstop march
1454 01:21:23 as soon asthe weather was clear.
1455 01:21:33 Life on Elephant Islandwas grim.
1456 01:21:35 The men suffered terribly.
1457 01:21:38 Very often,we were almost down
1458 01:21:40 to our last mealwhen something would turn up.
1459 01:21:44 A seal or somestorm-driven penguins
1460 01:21:47 and we were safe againfor a few days.
1461 01:21:55 Today, McIlroy operated
1462 01:21:57 on Blackborow,
1463 01:21:58 amputating all toesof the left foot.
1464 01:22:02 We managed to sterilizeinstruments pretty well.
1465 01:22:06 We had no sterilizedoveralls to get into.
1466 01:22:09 We merely strippedto our vest.
1467 01:22:13 I was oneof the few who witnessed
1468 01:22:14 the operation,and it was most interesting.
1469 01:22:19 The poor beggarbehaved splendidly,
1470 01:22:21 and it went throughwithout a hitch.
1471 01:22:31 At 2:00 a.m.on Friday, May the 19th,
1472 01:22:33 the weather was fineand clear,
1473 01:22:35 and the moonwas shining brilliantly.
1474 01:22:39 Shackleton said,"We will start now, Skipper."
1475 01:22:44 Shackleton insistson breaking trail,
1476 01:22:46 being the first to gothrough the snow
1477 01:22:48 so others behindwould have an easier trek.
1478 01:22:53 After two hourssteady climbing,
1479 01:22:55 we were 2,500 feetabove sea level.
1480 01:23:00 The bright moonlightshowed us
1481 01:23:01 that the interiorwas broken tremendously.
1482 01:23:08 Then, as daylight came,the fog thinned and lifted.
1483 01:23:14 With the completeclearance of the mist,
1484 01:23:16 we saw,to our sharp disappointment,
1485 01:23:18 what we had takenfor a frozen lake
1486 01:23:21 was an arm of the sea.
1487 01:23:24 So we retracedour steps down the long slope
1488 01:23:26 that had taken usthree hours to climb.
1489 01:23:30 Shackleton said, grimly,
1490 01:23:32 "We shall have to go onto the next, boys."
1491 01:23:37 This happened three times.
1492 01:23:43 We had now been
1493 01:23:45 on the marchfor over 20 hours,
1494 01:23:47 only halting forour occasional meals.
1495 01:23:54 At one point,Crean and Worsley
1496 01:23:56 dropped off to sleepduring one of their pauses.
1497 01:23:59 Shackleton says he hadthis irresistible urge
1498 01:24:01 to join them in sleep,
1499 01:24:02 but he knewthat sleep meant death.
1500 01:24:06 After fiveminutes, I shook them
1501 01:24:07 into consciousness again,
1502 01:24:09 told them that they hadslept for half an hour,
1503 01:24:12 and gave the wordfor a fresh start.
1504 01:24:17 And then, on the night
1505 01:24:19 of the 19th of May,
1506 01:24:20 they were high upin the mountains
1507 01:24:22 and they realizedthey were gonna die.
1508 01:24:23 It was far too coldand exposed up there.
1509 01:24:27 The situationlooked grim enough.
1510 01:24:30 Fog cut off our retreat.Darkness covered our advance.
1511 01:24:34 It was useless to continuein this fashion.
1512 01:24:38 Shackleton said,"We've got to take a risk.
1513 01:24:42 We'll slide."
1514 01:24:45 Slide down what waspractically a precipice
1515 01:24:49 to meet... what?
1516 01:24:52 Still, it was the only way.
1517 01:24:59 Shackleton sat onthe large step he had carved,
1518 01:25:01 and I sat behind him.
1519 01:25:03 Crean did the same with me
1520 01:25:04 so that we were lockedtogether as one.
1521 01:25:08 Then Shackleton kicked off.
1522 01:25:10 We seemed to shootinto space.
1523 01:25:15 They simply tobogganed off
1524 01:25:17 into the unknown.
1525 01:25:31 We finished in a snow bank.
1526 01:25:33 We had shot down a milein two or three minutes.
1527 01:25:38 We picked ourselves upand shook hands all round.
1528 01:25:42 "It's not good to do thatkind of thing too often,"
1529 01:25:45 said Shackleton.
1530 01:25:51 At 6:30 a.m.,
1531 01:25:53 I thought I heardthe sound of a steam whistle.
1532 01:25:57 I dared not be certain.
1533 01:26:01 Seven o'clock came,
1534 01:26:02 and we listened intently.
1535 01:26:04 Then, clear acrossthe mountains
1536 01:26:07 in the still morning air
1537 01:26:08 came the soundof steam whistles
1538 01:26:11 of the whaling factoriesbidding the men.
1539 01:26:15 It was the first signalof civilization
1540 01:26:18 that we had heardfor nearly two years.
1541 01:26:24 Our old friend,Captain Sørlle,
1542 01:26:26 who had entertained ustwo years previously
1543 01:26:28 when the expeditionhad touched Stromness Bay,
1544 01:26:31 failed to recognize usas we stood on his doorstep.
1545 01:26:37 I said,my name is Shackleton.
1546 01:26:40 He was extremelypleased to see us
1547 01:26:42 and at once took usinto his house.
1548 01:26:45 We had baths,our beards came off,
1549 01:26:48 and we felt likehuman beings once again.
1550 01:26:54 The very following day,
1551 01:26:55 Worsley went roundin a small steam ship
1552 01:26:57 to pick upthe other three men
1553 01:26:59 who were still on the west sideof South Georgia.
1554 01:27:03 On the Tuesday,we started out
1555 01:27:05 in the same whaler
1556 01:27:06 to try and reach my comradeson Elephant Island.
1557 01:27:11 We metthe pack ice 60 miles north
1558 01:27:14 of the island.
1559 01:27:15 To attempt to forcethe unprotected steel whaler
1560 01:27:18 through the massesof pack ice
1561 01:27:20 would have been suicidal.
1562 01:27:24 To admit failureat this stage was hard,
1563 01:27:27 but the factshad to be faced.
1564 01:27:41 Thrusters enabled, all yours.
1565 01:27:43 Copy.
1566 01:27:50 Today's the day.
1567 01:27:53 And if it's not,maybe tomorrow.
1568 01:28:08 It's sad that wedon't found her yet,
1569 01:28:11 but, uh, yeah, there is stillfive boxes remaining.
1570 01:28:18 So our nextmission will be D10
1571 01:28:21 and D09.
1572 01:28:32 If the icehad been more stationary,
1573 01:28:35 it could work,but there's, as it--
1574 01:28:39 Come on.
1575 01:28:41 Oh, yeah.Oh, come on, Ellie.
1576 01:28:45 Come on, give us more.Give us more.
1577 01:28:47 Give us more.
1578 01:28:50 It's got some height.
1579 01:28:52 Yeah, yeah.
1580 01:28:53 It's got some height.
1581 01:28:56 Nico?
1582 01:28:57 - Go ahead.- Can you join us
1583 01:28:59 in the survey room, please?
1584 01:29:00 Yes.
1585 01:29:01 That's the Endurance.
1586 01:29:03 That's really interesting.
1587 01:29:09 - Morning, Nico!- Morning. How are you? You okay?
1588 01:29:11 I'm good.Another beautiful day.
1589 01:29:15 There you go,my friend.
1590 01:29:17 That's a beauty.
1591 01:29:18 There you go,my friend.
1592 01:29:21 I suggest that wehave a dive with camera.
1593 01:29:23 Verification.
1594 01:29:27 John Shears, John Shears,John Shears, Nico.
1595 01:29:30 Nico, Nico, go ahead.
1596 01:29:32 Yes, please. John, could youjoin me on the bridge?
1597 01:29:34 And if you find Mensun,could you come
1598 01:29:36 with Mensunon the bridge please?
1599 01:29:38 Okay, I'll come straight up.
1600 01:29:40 Yes, please bring your,
1601 01:29:41 bring your Mensunwith you, please.
1602 01:29:52 Shackleton made not one,
1603 01:29:54 not two, not threebut four attempts to get back
1604 01:29:56 to Elephant Islandto rescue his men.
1605 01:29:59 He was turned back by stormsand frozen seas.
1606 01:30:04 The wear and tearof this period was dreadful.
1607 01:30:08 In those four terrible months,
1608 01:30:10 I saw deep linesappear in his face,
1609 01:30:13 and his hair turned gray.
1610 01:30:17 On the fourth attempt,the Chilean government
1611 01:30:19 came nobly to the rescue.
1612 01:30:21 They lent Shackletonthe little steamer Yelcho.
1613 01:30:26 This time,providence favored us.
1614 01:30:29 I found as we nearedElephant Island
1615 01:30:32 that the ice was open.
1616 01:30:41 We were sitting downto a magnificent meal
1617 01:30:44 of old seal bones,seaweed, and limpets
1618 01:30:47 when, from the manon duty outside,
1619 01:30:49 we heard a sudden yell.
1620 01:30:51 "Wild!" he shouted, "Wild!There's a, there's a ship.
1621 01:30:53 Haven't we betterlight a flare?"
1622 01:30:56 We forgot all aboutour wonderful meal.
1623 01:30:58 We made one divefor the door.
1624 01:31:00 Those who couldn't getthrough the door
1625 01:31:02 went through the sides,
1626 01:31:04 and the wonderful mealwas kicked over in the rush.
1627 01:31:08 Suddenly, everyoneran down the beach
1628 01:31:09 waving and shoutingecstatically.
1629 01:31:12 Shackleton used his binocularsto count the number of men.
1630 01:31:16 Only when he was certainhe'd counted
1631 01:31:18 all the right numberof people
1632 01:31:20 could he relax and know
1633 01:31:21 not a manwould be left behind.
1634 01:31:24 He put his glasses back
1635 01:31:25 in their caseand turned to me.
1636 01:31:28 It sounds trite,but years literally seemed
1637 01:31:31 to drop from himas he stood before us.
1638 01:31:41 I woke up this morning saying,today's the day.
1639 01:31:43 - Yeah...- I can smell it.
1640 01:31:45 Yeah.
1641 01:31:46 Come on, you saythat every day.
1642 01:31:51 - Good time?- Yeah, yeah.
1643 01:31:52 - Hey, Mensun.- Hey, Nico.
1644 01:31:55 - So Mensun, John...- Yeah.
1645 01:31:57 ...I would like to introducethe Endurance.
1646 01:31:59 Ohh, yes! Oh!
1647 01:32:03 - Oh!- Brilliant.
1648 01:32:04 Absolutely brilliant.
1649 01:32:05 - Well done! Yeah!- Oh, my gosh.
1650 01:32:08 I was saying, I was sayingto Mensun on the ice.
1651 01:32:11 I said it was gonna bea good day.
1652 01:32:12 I said it wasgonna be a good day.
1653 01:32:14 The way you were looking,I thought,
1654 01:32:16 "They've lost the AUV."
1655 01:32:18 That's what I thought.
1656 01:32:20 Big kiss.
1657 01:32:29 Good morning!
1658 01:32:30 It's so beautiful! Oh, mygoodness, I can't believe it!
1659 01:32:34 The AUVhas been broadcasting back
1660 01:32:35 the first imagesfrom the seabed,
1661 01:32:37 and Endurancelooks unbelievable.
1662 01:32:39 It's all in one piece.
1663 01:32:40 Researchers made
1664 01:32:41 a stunning discovery.
1665 01:32:42 The ship Endurancefinally found.
1666 01:32:44 It's the mostextraordinary find.
1667 01:32:46 The Endurance was found at3008 meters under the sea.
1668 01:32:53 It's aonce-in-a-lifetime discovery.
1669 01:33:00 One of the biggest deep-seamysteries of our time
1670 01:33:04 finally solved.
1671 01:33:06 My grandmother...oh, she'd be, uh,
1672 01:33:08 she'd be so proud.
1673 01:33:09 So, so proud.
1674 01:33:11 And so, so...
1675 01:33:12 So part of what I do is, um,
1676 01:33:14 is that sort of inspirationfrom, from her.
1677 01:33:18 From, uh, Gram.
1678 01:33:29 We were given a welcome
1679 01:33:30 none of usis likely to forget.
1680 01:33:34 The Chileans cheered us,
1681 01:33:35 and we cheeredourselves hoarse in reply.
1682 01:33:40 When we landed,they welcomed us so heartily
1683 01:33:43 that they nearly pushed usinto the sea again.
1684 01:33:48 Shackleton's lastjourney into the Antarctic
1685 01:33:51 was a failure,
1686 01:33:54 but it wasa glorious failure.
1687 01:33:57 That's Shackleton's cabin there,
1688 01:34:00 right there.
1689 01:34:02 Oh, wow, we gotthe binnacle right there.
1690 01:34:04 Oh, my God, the compass guard,you can see it.
1691 01:34:07 - Yeah.- The tin mug.
1692 01:34:08 - Yeah.- Plates.
1693 01:34:10 Plates.Oh, and there's the flare gun.
1694 01:34:12 - Yes.- Wow.
1695 01:34:13 - Yeah. There's a boot.- The boot.
1696 01:34:15 Yeah, you see, it's even gotthe buckle. Right there.
1697 01:34:17 And if you lookat the picture,
1698 01:34:19 conceivably,that could be Wild's boot.
1699 01:34:21 Look at that.Identical, isn't it?
1700 01:34:25 You must be very,very proud of your guys, Nico.
1701 01:34:28 - Yeah, I am.- This is incredible.
1702 01:34:34 Shackleton said thatwhen you go to the poles
1703 01:34:37 you're touch by a kind of magic,
1704 01:34:41 and you're changed forever.
1705 01:34:59 We lived long,dark days in the south.
1706 01:35:03 We lived throughslow dead days of toil,
1707 01:35:06 of struggle, dark striving,and anxiety,
1708 01:35:10 days that called notfor the heroism
1709 01:35:13 in the bright light of day,
1710 01:35:15 but simply for dogged,persistent endeavor
1711 01:35:18 to do what the soulsaid was right.
1712 01:35:23 I return to the wildagain and again
1713 01:35:26 until I suppose, in the end,the wild will win.
1714 01:35:31 There is the fascinationof striving
1715 01:35:33 after the almost impossible.
1716 01:35:47 When they got back,
1717 01:35:48 the First World Warwas raging.
1718 01:35:51 It just wasn't appropriatefor Shackleton
1719 01:35:53 to have his momentin the sun.
1720 01:35:57 Nearly all of them signed up
1721 01:35:59 for military servicestraight away.
1722 01:36:02 Tragically, two of themare killed.
1723 01:36:06 Several othersare badly wounded.
1724 01:36:12 Shackleton himselfjoined the military
1725 01:36:14 in a logistics role.
1726 01:36:17 When the war ended,
1727 01:36:19 he finally had his moment.
1728 01:36:21 He began touringand lecturing.
1729 01:36:23 The film South was released,and it was a great success.
1730 01:36:31 Shackleton had onemore expedition left in him,
1731 01:36:33 and in 1921,he went back to South Georgia,
1732 01:36:36 but he died of a heart attackin early 1922.
1733 01:36:45 It is an old cliché
1734 01:36:46 that Shackleton never achievedany of the things
1735 01:36:50 that he set out to do.
1736 01:36:51 And it's true, he didn't.
1737 01:36:53 But that was notwhat Shackleton was about.
1738 01:36:56 Shackleton was aboutman's urge
1739 01:37:00 to be always pushingto expand his boundaries,
1740 01:37:04 always strivingfor the next thing,
1741 01:37:06 always reachingfor the horizon.
1742 01:37:08 That was Shackleton.
1743 01:37:11 Shackleton was buried here
1744 01:37:12 on the 5th of March, 1922.
1745 01:37:15 And exactly a hundred years later,
1746 01:37:17 on the 5th of March, 2022,
1747 01:37:19 we found his ship,the Endurance,
1748 01:37:21 on the seafloor of the Weddell Sea.
1749 01:37:24 I think Sir Ernest
1750 01:37:26 would be amazed and probably also rather jealous
1751 01:37:30 of what we have achieved and slap our backs and laugh
1752 01:37:33 and applaud loudly our efforts as a team.
1753 01:37:37 When you walk away from here,
1754 01:37:39 reflect on what you've done and remember,
1755 01:37:42 we're a symbol of how people can achieve
1756 01:37:44 the greatest of challenges if they trust and work together.