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An expedition that set out in search of the lost ship of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has found it — 106 years after the vessel sank off Antarctica.
The wooden ship Endurance has been located about 10,000 feet underwater in the Weddell Sea, remarkably intact.
The find is "a milestone in polar history," said Mensun Bound, a maritime archaeologist and director of exploration on the expedition, called Endurance22.
"This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. You can even see 'Endurance' arced across the stern," Bound said.
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BTW - it was an awesome find and the name Endurance is very fitting.
Unless you take some specific action to store that image data, such as "Save Image As" or taking a screen shot, the image will not be stored on your device, but will simply be viewable as long as your browser is connected to the site, in this case, NPR.
The reason that I explain it that way is to emphasize that once your browser leaves a data site such as the NPR image file, the only way that you can see that image again is to revisit the NPR site and regain access to the particular data file.
As long as that data is still there, your browser should be able to retrieve it. I'm still seeing the three pics right now, so they are still available from the NPR server. Why your browser is evidently failing to retrieve them is a complete mystery to me.
BTW, I'm certainly not any kind of "expert" on all things internet, and lots of times I'm as mystified as anyone else when things don't work as expected.
Not really: 10000 feet = 1666.66666667 fathoms
So this is interesting. It must have to do with the browser or cache on my older Mac laptop. Everything is fine on my 2021 model but not on my 2010 similar. Both have been maintained with all updates and what not so I'll have to do some digging. Thanks for the input.
OJ
@Mark- It just occurred to me that an interesting test might be to try a different browser on the older Mac to see what that does. I'm Mac also, but I prefer Firefox to Safari. Opera also works well on my Macs. I'm still using using El Capitan 10.11.6 on a fleet of "late 2014" Minis.
Anchors away, Derf
That item you wonder about appears to be a large heavy rectangular wooden beam which has broken away from some part of the ship's lower hull. At the top right of that beam are three evenly-spaced and cleanly cut notches, indicating that there was formerly a joining at those points to other parts of the hull system.
Enjoy your Sunday, Derf
And two wonderful pictures of the original expedition-
Being of USCG vintage you’ve probably been exposed to ice breaking. While we don’t see ice like that in the Great Lakes, it’s always fascinating to watch the “breakers”, as they are called, doing their work.
From Frost: … “I think I know enough of hate to say that for destruction ice Is also great and would suffice.”
Palawan is resorts now!
The school had a grass volleyball clearing, and once in a while some of us would go over for a match against the schoolkids. We didn't win one singe game the entire year that I was there.
The entire station crew was only about 14 Coasties. Sometimes a few of us would head over to the village at night to sit around in the head-man's home, drinking San Miguel and generally bs'ing. The only lighting was from a couple of San Miguel beer bottles filled with diesel fuel from our station, and a piece of rope for a wick.
One of our crew was a well-qualified corpsman (paramedic), and every morning there was a sick-call for any of us with a health issue, and likewise anyone from the village. Everyone was treated equally. No charge.
The "airstrip" consisted of a narrow swath of grassy weeds with a tall wall of jungle on the sides and at the end. A real heart-stopper, that was... absolutely no margin for error.
Best year of my life.