What if one of the most famous and formidable Antarctic exploration vessels in history, whose crew's story of shipwreck and survival has been told for more than a century, wasn't as strong as legend ...

Was the legendary sinking of Endurance in 1915 due to a string of bad luck or a series of fatal design flaws and risky decisions? New research suggests that Sir Ernest Shackleton’s famous polar tale ...

Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, infamously sank in Antarctica — and now a new study finds that it had known flaws. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

It isn’t every day that the most famous story of human survival gets an update. But the century-old tale of the Shackleton Expedition—you know, one in which marooned sailors survived off of seal ...

Oct. 6 (UPI) --Sir Ernest Shackleton's polar ship, Endurance, was considered to be the strongest of its time but the vessel had significant structural weaknesses that caused its demise -- and an ...

Endurance is shown in the winter of 1915. The ship became stuck in ice and eventually sank. A new paper says it wasn't as well-built as previously believed. A new research paper about the vessel ...

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