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LAURENCE FISHBURNE: Tonight on
"History's Greatest Mysteries,"
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an in-depth look at a
thrilling recent discovery
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as Ernest Shackleton's
long lost ship Endurance
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is finally found
more than a century
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after it was
trapped in polar ice
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and sank into the frigid
waters of the Antarctic.
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NEWS ANCHOR 1 (VOICEOVER):
And a remarkable discovery
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10,000 feet below the surface
of Antarctica's Weddell Sea.
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NEWS ANCHOR 2 (VOICEOVER):
Researchers have discovered
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the British ship called
Endurance, the vessel that
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launched one of the most
remarkable stories of survival
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and determination.
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NEWS ANCHOR 3
(VOICEOVER): That led
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to one of the most challenging
shipwreck searches in history.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE: Fraught with
its own peril, the discovery
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came after years of planning
and a daring mission that
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cost millions of dollars.
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AUV in the water.
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Like a torpedo.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE: Shackleton
headed one of the most famous
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expeditions of the
20th century, a mission
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to cross Antarctica that became
an all out fight for survival.
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The initial expedition
to find the Endurance
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came tantalizingly
close to locating it,
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only to nearly
suffer the same fate.
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We are now just stuck.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE:
I'm Laurence Fishburne.
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And tonight's mystery-- what
really happened to Shackleton's
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lost ship?
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What secrets can the wreck hold?
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And could its discovery
change our understanding
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of an expedition that
made legends of Shackleton
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and his brave crew?
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The full story of Shackleton's
lost ice ship now.
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[theme music]
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Antarctica, the most extreme
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place on Earth.
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Temperatures reach 100 below.
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Wind whips across it
at 200 miles per hour.
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This frozen continent
surrounds the South Pole.
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It's a vast land
entirely covered in ice.
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Somewhere in these frozen
seas lies the Holy Grail
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of shipwrecks, the
Endurance, the ship
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that carried legendary explorer
Sir Ernest Shackleton south
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in 1914.
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South side straight
up the starboard.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Down here, the water
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is so cold the wooden ship is
likely perfectly preserved.
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But it's so hard to get to that
no one's ever been able to hunt
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for the wreck until now.
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Flying in from across the
globe is an international team
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of ship hunters,
explorers, and scientists.
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Two years in the planning
and over $250 million
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of cutting edge technology make
them think they can pull off
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a world first.
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If the data that we have
for the wreck site is correct,
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then we'll find it.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Maritime archaeologist Mensen
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Bound is heading up the search.
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He's got 40 years experience
excavating shipwrecks.
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But finding the Endurance
is the ultimate challenge.
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MENSUN BOUND: The
Endurance, is, to my mind,
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the most famous
wreck of all time.
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She's up there with the Titanic.
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If anybody can
find the Endurance,
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it's going to be
this expedition.
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This is the greatest wreck
hunt that there's ever been.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): This expedition
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will face the same risks and
dangers that Shackleton did
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a century ago.
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But today's team
has come prepared.
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The ROV has the tension.
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You can release it.
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And it's just going to go under.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Steve Santamore
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leads one of the elite
teams of sub sea explorers.
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STEVE SAINT AMOUR:
So our job will
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be to document the condition
of the wreck on the sea floor.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Based in Maryland,
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his team has found missing
plane wrecks and, most famously,
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surveyed the Titanic.
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But hunting Shackleton's wreck
is their most challenging
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mission yet.
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A ship has not been to
the Shackleton location
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primarily due to the ice
pack and how difficult
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it is to get here.
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This is the equivalent
of going to Mars
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and looking for the
wreckage of spacecraft.
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You know, it's just that remote.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
To help him search,
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Steve's got a secret weapon,
a purpose built, remotely
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operated vehicle or ROV.
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This $2 million bot weighs
in at over 6,000 pounds.
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It's equipped with deep
sea cameras and two
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articulated titanium arms.
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Its mission-- to dive to the
seabed and explore the wreck.
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STEVE SAINT AMOUR: And so
one of the things that we
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do to prepare for the
mission is go through, double
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check all the connections,
and tighten up hardware.
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Dave O'Hara, from Northern
Ireland, is Steve's pilot.
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Through there and there.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
An ex-British Navy engineer,
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he's been working on
robot subs for 12 years.
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DAVE O'HARA: For me, personally,
it's a bucket list job.
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The shipwreck side of things
got me inspired to come and do
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this for a living,
watching guys find Titanic.
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Just for the history
behind it, the story,
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the human aspect of it.
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And I think that's the
same with Endurance.
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OK, guys.
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Just let her be able to
start the hydraulics.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Dave's
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confident that he can get
the sub 10,000 feet down
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to the wreck.
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But first they've
got to find it.
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Fortunately, the team has a
big clue to where it could be.
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To find the exact
spot to search,
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wreck archaeologist Mensun
Bound is investigating
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nautical charts and the
ship's original log,
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kept meticulously by
Shackleton's Captain Frank
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Worsley.
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These record Endurance's
position on the day she sank.
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MENSUN BOUND: It gives us
the coordinates, latitude
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and longitude.
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If we look at the chart,
here we have it right here.
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This is where she sank.
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This is X marks the spot.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Using the data,
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Mensun calculates a
target 1,200 miles away
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across the treacherous
Weddell Sea.
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EDWARD J. LARSON:
The Weddell Sea
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is a churning bed of sea ice.
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This sea ice breaks into
pieces and it floats around.
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And it keeps running
into each other,
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throwing up pressure ridges.
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And you never know
when it's going
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to turn totally solid again.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): The expedition
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is also in a race against time.
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The Weddell Sea is
full of ice year round.
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But as winter approaches, the
ocean around the continent
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freezes over, impassable sea
ice covering an area one and 1/2
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times the size of
the United States.
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The team has a short window
to get in and back out
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or they'll get stuck in the ice.
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Anyone going into
that area with a ship
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is putting their ship and
their crew in jeopardy.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): In 1914, two years
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after the sinking
of the Titanic,
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British Explorer Sir Ernest
Shackleton heads south.
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ERNEST SHACKLETON
(RECORDING): I believe
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it is in our nature to explore,
TO reach out into the unknown.
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The only true failure would
be not to explore at all.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
It's the golden age
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of polar exploration.
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Shackleton is full of
ambition, seeking glory
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for himself and his country.
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He was really
driven by the fact
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that it was one of the
last few places on Earth
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that hadn't been touched by man.
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And he wanted to be
the first person there.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Shackleton's aim--
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to make history by crossing
the entire Antarctic continent
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from coast to coast
for the first time.
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100 years ago,
crossing Antarctica
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would be more difficult than
us going to the moon today.
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I think it's the nature of
man to always see something
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we haven't seen before, whether
it's the moon or the South
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Pole.
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CONRAD ANKER: Shackleton
and his 27 men,
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they sailed off what
we knew of the world.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
But Shackleton will never
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even make landfall.
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Here, at the end of the
Earth, Shackleton's ship,
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the Endurance, will sink in
a disaster that will capture
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the world's attention.
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Fully loaded, the
Agulhas II finally
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sets off, ready to take
on the Weddell Sea.
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So much has gone into this
project, so many years of work,
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so many dreams.
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It feels really like my my
whole life has just come down
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to this moment.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Now it's time to put everything
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to the test.
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After five days at
sea, the expedition
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to find the ship of legendary
explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton
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is making good progress.
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Now 1,500 miles from
her starting point
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at Penguin Bukta, the crew is
zeroing in on the wreck site.
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On deck, Louisiana native and
former Air Force engineer Devon
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James is part of a
second elite team hunting
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the 100-year-old wreck.
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It's his job to look
after another critical set
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of equipment, two autonomous
underwater vehicles or AUVs.
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DEVON JAMES: It's
basically a drone just
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like an aerial drone, but
we use it in the ocean.
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So this is used
all over the world
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to survey the sea floor
without a operator going
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below the surface.
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Coming to you.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Also working on the subs
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is Chad Bonin.
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Like Devon, he's ex-military.
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Forward.
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On it.
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We haven't dealt with ice
conditions like this before.
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We were hand-picked
to come onto this job.
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So there's a lot of pressure
to complete the task.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Despite the challenges
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of sending their AUV
subs under the ice,
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Chad's got a good attitude.
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Long as we're
layered up, we're
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OK, because we're
from South Louisiana.
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It's usually hot
weather, you know?
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The team knows where to head,
but getting there is tough.
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The expedition's hopes
rest on the Agulhas II.
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Weighing in at 14,000 tons
and costing $170 million,
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this ship is designed to smash
through ice up to 3 feet thick.
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A double haul of extra thick
steel protects the Agulhas II.
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And in the engine room,
second engineer Mark O'Reilly
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is pushing her four
engines to the limit.
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These deliver 12,000 horsepower.
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MARK O'REILLEY: This is one
of two [inaudible],, 6,000
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horsepower available on each.
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And that will give
us enough power
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to break through one meter
of ice at 7 miles per hour.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): The Agulhas II
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is built for the worst
conditions on the planet.
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But even for this beast, hitting
ice at speed is bad news.
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Captain Freddy Lighthelm
is the ice pilot.
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Part of the South African crew,
he has 15 years experience
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in the Weddell Sea.
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FREDDIE LIGHTHELM: If we
should hit any sea ice here
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at 50 knots, it could
possibly cause heavy damage
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to the vessel so we are
continuously looking at.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
The Titanic famously
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sank in 1912 because it
hit an iceberg at speed.
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One wrong move could bring
this ship to the same fate.
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But unlike the
Titanic, the Agulhas II
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has an arsenal of modern
navigational tools.
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This is us here.
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And this is our speed victor.
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And you can see that this
iceberg is at a distance of 8.8
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miles.
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Sometimes you could get 100
targets on the radar at a 12
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mile range.
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And you'd try to then just
skirt as much as you can.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
To reach the wreck site,
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the Agulhas II has been sailing
around the northern edge
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of the ice pack.
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She will only head into the
thicker ice when she has to.
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This sea ice is what explorer
Sir Ernest Shackleton faced
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more than 100 years ago.
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EDWARD J. LARSON: When
Shackleton took his ship
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into the Weddell Sea, he knew
there was a tremendous risk
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that he'd never
make it out alive.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Caught
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on camera by photographer
Frank Hurley,
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the Endurance picks her
way through hundreds
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of miles of pack ice.
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But how could the
144 foot wooden ship
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avoid the fate of the Titanic
just two years previously?
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Wreck archaeologist Mensun Bound
is studying the ship's plans.
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This is the original
design for the Endurance.
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She really was a beautiful,
beautiful vessel.
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If you look at her bow, you can
see it's got four huge oaken
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timbers here.
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That's two times more than
any other ship that I know of.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Her bow is over 4 feet thick.
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The keel or spine of the
ship is 7 feet of solid oak.
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And to stop her being
ripped apart by ice,
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her hull is cloaked
in a wood called
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green heart, so durable and
strong that it's heavier
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than iron.
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It is extraordinarily hard.
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It's so hard, you can't
even drive a nail into it.
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But this is what Shackleton
needed, because it
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is resistant to the kind of
wear, and tear, and abrasion
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that this hull is going to
have to withstand once it got
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into the Antarctic.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Shackleton named his ship
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Endurance after his family
motto, by endurance we conquer.
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And the Endurance will
need all her strength
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as she sails further
into the ice.
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While the ice makes
getting to the wreck site
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a massive challenge,
these frigid waters
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are also the reason Shackleton's
wooden ship is likely preserved
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at the bottom of the sea.
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In warmer seas,
marine creatures eat
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wooden ships, the
most destructive
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a mollusk called a ship worm.
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Ship worm can be incredibly
destructive to wooden ships.
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And they are voracious.
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They just eat anything and
everything in no time at all.
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They can be up to two feet long.
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And they just eat,
eat, eat, eat.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Recent experiments
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have revealed that ship
worms can't survive
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in the freezing
Antarctic waters.
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And newly discovered
wrecks from Northern Canada
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prove that icy seas can
preserve wooden ships even older
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than the Endurance.
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But even if it's well
preserved, the Endurance
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rests 10,000 feet down.
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And right now, the sea there
is entirely frozen over.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): The crew
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is now beyond the reach
of helicopter rescue.
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If something goes wrong,
they're on their own.
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They've reached the west
side of the Weddell Sea,
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as close as they can get to
the wreck site in open water.
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Beyond their position is
pack ice up to 16 feet thick.
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Chad and Devin want
to test their AUV subs
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under a nearby ice floe.
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We'll be going into sea
trials where we're actually
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going to launch the AUV.
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We'll go ahead and release
it, send it underwater.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): At the wreck site,
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the AUVs will dive
down and use sonar
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to scan the seabed
for the wreck.
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It may sound simple, but even
testing the AUVs like this
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is risky.
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They've never been
under Antarctic ice.
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AUV team leader Channing
Thomas knows the dangers.
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CHANNING THOMAS: There
is a lot of pressure.
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If this works, it's going
to be extraordinary.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Two years of planning
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and tens of millions of dollars
rests on the AUV sub doing
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its job right.
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DEVON JAMES: We're being extra
cautious before we put it
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in the water.
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Once we launch it,
there's no turning back.
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CHAD BONIN: All right.
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Let's go get us a
successful launch.
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All right.
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Crank up hydraulics.
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Yeah.
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We definitely don't see
this in the Gulf of Mexico.
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MAN (ON RADIO): [inaudible].
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MAN: AUV in the water.
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CHAD BONIN: Like a torpedo.
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All right.
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Looking good.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
All systems are go.
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Stay back here and monitor.
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Roger that.
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Ready to dive?
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30 seconds till it dives.
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Come on, cowboy.
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Good job.
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Good job.
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It's done a good job.
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It's a great relief
to finally get it under.
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We're on our first mission.
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Now we can pull
forward a little more.
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AUV's getting down to
300 meters right now.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
While the team tracks the AUV
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sub, expedition
archaeologist Mensun Bound
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investigates how
Shackleton's ship ended up
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on this side of the
Weddell Sea a century ago.
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Here he is coming down
the coast of the Weddell Sea
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and all the while working
his way south, south.
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But as he's going, the ice
is becoming more and more
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dense and impenetrable until
eventually he gets all the way
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down here.
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And right here is
where he becomes beset.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Just 60 miles from the South
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Coast of the Weddell
Sea, the ice pack
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freezes solid around
Shackleton's ship.
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The Endurance is trapped.
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LEONARD HUSSEY (VOICEOVER): The
temperature suddenly dropped
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from 20 degrees above
0 to 20 degrees below.
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The whole sea froze over.
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And we froze in with it.
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Of course, we had no
explosive to blast our way out
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but we just had
picks and shovels.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): For 40 hours,
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his men fight desperately
but they can't free her
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from the ice.
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And at that moment,
Shackleton's heart
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sank because he knew, because
it was so late in the season,
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that he was frozen
in place for winter.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
And in the six month
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long Antarctic
winter, just staying
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alive is nearly impossible.
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ERIC LARSEN: Everything
is pushing against you.
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It's trying to kill you.
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That cold is physically painful.
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Any piece of exposed
skin, just a little bit
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of a gap in your clothing,
that's like somebody
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cutting your face with a knife.
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CONRAD ANKER: The wind's
unrelenting and the snow driven
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like needles into your face.
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SCOTT SHACKLETON: I
was at the South Pole.
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It was so cold.
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I removed my glove for
just about a minute,
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maybe a minute and 20 seconds.
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And my thumb froze solid.
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And you think about
Shackleton and his men
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out there in wool, and cotton,
and things that weren't really
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designed for that environment.
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It just reminds me how
tough those men were.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): The Endurance
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is completely stuck.
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But she's 550 miles from
where she will finally sink.
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So how did she get there?
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Turns out the Endurance
is still on the move
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because the ice is on the move.
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ERIC LARSEN: While it may
look like a land mass,
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it's floating on water.
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That means whatever the water
is doing, whatever the wind is
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doing, that affects
that surface.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Strong currents and winds
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in the Weddell Sea spin
the entire ice pack
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in a giant clockwise rotation.
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For 10 months, the Endurance
moves with the ice.
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MENSUN BOUND: This is the route
that the Endurance was carried.
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We can follow the
route very precisely.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
The crew was trapped,
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but they had reason to
believe they would escape.
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Several years
before, another ship,
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a ship called the Deutschland,
had also become beset
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down here.
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Because the Deutschland
was eventually
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released from the ice, the
people on the Endurance
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thought the same thing
would happen to them.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Out on deck in the early hours
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of the morning, the team is
waiting for their AUV sub
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to return from its test run.
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00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:05,829
But there's a problem.
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00:26:05,898 --> 00:26:09,033
I don't know what
the hell is going on.
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00:26:09,235 --> 00:26:10,900
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
They've lost all contact
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with their brand new
multimillion dollar sub.
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BLAKE HOWARD: Everything
started to go well.
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We were gaining confidence.
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And then we lost it.
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When we saw that it did
not surface in front of us
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or to either side
of us, we figured
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it had to be in the ice.
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00:26:39,264 --> 00:26:42,599
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
The team needs to move fast.
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The AUV has 54 hours of battery.
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00:26:46,005 --> 00:26:49,006
If the battery dies,
they'll never get it back.
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00:26:49,075 --> 00:26:53,877
That's a multimillion
dollar loss they can't take.
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00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,613
We're going to search
that area right there.
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00:26:56,682 --> 00:26:59,950
The AUV has two flashes on it.
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00:27:00,019 --> 00:27:03,153
And the general idea is
to get the ROV down deep,
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turn off all our lights, and
hopefully see those beacons.
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00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,828
MENSUN BOUND: Right
now, I'm very worried.
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00:27:11,030 --> 00:27:14,565
From day one, we
recognized that our nemesis
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was going to be the ice pack.
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00:27:16,168 --> 00:27:19,903
Just as it was Shackleton's,
so was it going to be ours.
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00:27:19,972 --> 00:27:24,008
And hey what, it's
proved to be just that.
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After hours of tension, AUV
operator Blake Howard finally
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detects a signal
from the missing sub.
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The sub is within a mile of the
ship somewhere under the ice.
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The first ping when it
actually did come through
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was a great feeling
for everybody.
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00:27:54,206 --> 00:27:57,207
It was extremely exciting
for her to actually talk back
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to us.
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And it gave us a
direction to head towards.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
The team continues pinging
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the sub to triangulate
its location.
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00:28:13,759 --> 00:28:16,693
Then they pick up a response.
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00:28:16,762 --> 00:28:18,695
That was almost
definitely a hit,
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so it's got to be within range.
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MENSUN BOUND: Compared to
where we were two hours ago.
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Yes, sir.
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00:28:27,506 --> 00:28:28,572
Exactly right.
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00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:29,006
So we're getting there.
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00:28:37,583 --> 00:28:38,648
What are we looking at?
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3 meters to 7 meters, Captain?
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00:28:41,319 --> 00:28:41,985
Yeah.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): To reach the sub,
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the Agulhas must get closer,
penetrating a 20 foot thick ice
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wall that's well beyond what
their ship is built to break,
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00:28:54,533 --> 00:28:55,999
but they have no choice.
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00:29:07,879 --> 00:29:10,547
The Agulhas II
doesn't ram the ice.
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It rides up onto the ice.
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And under the weight
of the 14,000 ton ship,
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the ice floe starts
to break apart.
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DAVE O'HARA: The AUV is about
here, about 200 meters away.
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LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Each strike
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00:29:40,846 --> 00:29:43,580
releases colossal
ice chunks bigger
483
00:29:43,648 --> 00:29:46,783
than the size of a house.
484
00:29:46,852 --> 00:29:48,852
By the time they're
done, the ship's
485
00:29:49,054 --> 00:29:51,989
smashed away 114 football
fields worth of ice.
486
00:29:57,062 --> 00:29:58,728
CHANNING THOMAS: We're
going to launch the ROV.
487
00:29:58,797 --> 00:29:59,929
We're going to go
in and locate it.
488
00:29:59,998 --> 00:30:01,999
And basically, they're
going to drag her out.
489
00:30:14,146 --> 00:30:15,745
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Across the ship,
490
00:30:15,815 --> 00:30:18,015
all eyes are glued
to the live feed.
491
00:30:26,158 --> 00:30:28,992
DAVE O'HARA: Right now we
are at six and 1/2 meters.
492
00:30:33,498 --> 00:30:34,298
And under the ice.
493
00:30:34,366 --> 00:30:35,365
MAN: Hey.
494
00:30:35,434 --> 00:30:36,900
Is that an AUV?
495
00:30:36,969 --> 00:30:40,503
DAVE O'HARA: And we've
got the AUV visual.
496
00:30:40,572 --> 00:30:41,572
MAN (ON RADIO): Roger.
497
00:30:41,774 --> 00:30:42,773
Tell the bridge we got a vis.
498
00:30:42,975 --> 00:30:44,574
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Binding
499
00:30:44,643 --> 00:30:47,710
the AUV is a huge relief.
500
00:30:47,779 --> 00:30:50,981
But now they need
to break it out.
501
00:30:51,049 --> 00:30:54,584
You can see the end of
the SUV with the prop,
502
00:30:54,653 --> 00:30:55,986
so it's definitely in a crack.
503
00:30:58,791 --> 00:31:00,791
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Dave
504
00:31:00,993 --> 00:31:03,460
has to grab the AUV
with the robot arm.
505
00:31:03,662 --> 00:31:05,128
DAVE O'HARA: All right.
506
00:31:05,196 --> 00:31:07,998
So you're pretty much going
to have to fly me into it.
507
00:31:14,473 --> 00:31:15,005
Come on, Bubba.
508
00:31:18,677 --> 00:31:20,010
Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow.
509
00:31:32,291 --> 00:31:35,692
As soon as we started the move,
the fish dropped away below us.
510
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:36,994
We got to go chase a fish down.
511
00:31:39,965 --> 00:31:41,999
I can't walk in there,
but I'll try again.
512
00:31:59,318 --> 00:31:59,983
Ugh.
513
00:32:10,996 --> 00:32:12,929
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): At this depth,
514
00:32:12,998 --> 00:32:15,598
the weight of water
pressing down on the AUV
515
00:32:15,668 --> 00:32:19,069
is equivalent to two jumbo jets.
516
00:32:19,138 --> 00:32:24,341
Pilot Dave O'Hara is finding
that fishing at this depth
517
00:32:24,543 --> 00:32:26,009
is far from easy.
518
00:32:39,625 --> 00:32:40,991
The hook has to hold.
519
00:32:49,501 --> 00:32:50,233
DAVE O'HARA: Yeah.
520
00:32:50,302 --> 00:32:51,768
Copy.
521
00:32:51,836 --> 00:32:53,970
You could probably
get the bridge
522
00:32:54,039 --> 00:32:58,041
to start moving real
slowly forward now I'm in.
523
00:32:58,109 --> 00:32:59,976
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): After four days,
524
00:33:00,045 --> 00:33:03,013
the AUV is finally in
hand and on the way up.
525
00:33:14,793 --> 00:33:15,993
MAN (ON RADIO):
Visual on the AUV.
526
00:33:19,464 --> 00:33:20,330
We got a hook.
527
00:33:20,398 --> 00:33:21,465
All right.
528
00:33:21,667 --> 00:33:24,134
Back down a little bit.
529
00:33:24,336 --> 00:33:25,468
Woo.
530
00:33:25,537 --> 00:33:26,003
That's cold, buddy.
531
00:33:29,207 --> 00:33:30,340
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
After a very close call,
532
00:33:30,409 --> 00:33:32,009
the AUV is safe.
533
00:33:36,548 --> 00:33:37,347
CHAD BONIN: All right.
534
00:33:37,549 --> 00:33:38,982
Coming up easy.
535
00:33:47,426 --> 00:33:50,293
Got it, Paul.
536
00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:51,161
That's it.
537
00:33:51,229 --> 00:33:54,698
I just I'm glad to
have it on board.
538
00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:58,167
It's been a rough
four or five days.
539
00:33:58,236 --> 00:34:00,570
So it'll be nice to actually
get a full night's sleep instead
540
00:34:00,772 --> 00:34:02,005
of a few hours here and there.
541
00:34:04,243 --> 00:34:05,175
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
With the critical gear
542
00:34:05,243 --> 00:34:09,645
now on board, the hunt
for the wreck is back on.
543
00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:11,014
The team can now press ahead.
544
00:34:26,197 --> 00:34:31,201
After a near disaster, the
team can move forward again.
545
00:34:31,269 --> 00:34:34,271
But they're still 230 miles from
where Shackleton's ship went
546
00:34:34,339 --> 00:34:35,005
down.
547
00:34:37,275 --> 00:34:41,011
And in that area, the sea is
still entirely covered in ice.
548
00:34:44,282 --> 00:34:47,751
Shackleton and his ship drifted
into this northwestern part
549
00:34:47,819 --> 00:34:54,758
of the Weddell Sea
in October 1915.
550
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:56,960
For 10 long months,
they'd been locked
551
00:34:57,028 --> 00:35:02,098
in the ice in a bitter
struggle for survival.
552
00:35:02,167 --> 00:35:06,636
It's so damn cold, if you
don't have an elaborate safety
553
00:35:06,705 --> 00:35:11,241
net of equipment, you'll die.
554
00:35:11,309 --> 00:35:13,977
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Shackleton's only safety net
555
00:35:14,179 --> 00:35:17,447
is his ship, but now the
mounting pressure in the ice
556
00:35:17,649 --> 00:35:20,783
is breaking it apart.
557
00:35:20,852 --> 00:35:21,852
EDWARD J. LARSON:
They're in the ship.
558
00:35:22,054 --> 00:35:25,789
They can hear this ice
moving against the ship.
559
00:35:25,857 --> 00:35:27,724
You hear the
creaking of the ship.
560
00:35:27,926 --> 00:35:30,059
You hear the pressure
on the joints.
561
00:35:30,129 --> 00:35:34,731
You never know if the ship's
just going to break apart.
562
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,532
WALTER HOWE
(VOICEOVER): The timbers
563
00:35:36,601 --> 00:35:39,202
began to crack and groan.
564
00:35:39,271 --> 00:35:42,005
It was they were like heavy
fireworks and blasting of guns.
565
00:35:54,219 --> 00:35:59,155
To see the pack ice move in
and just squeeze the life out
566
00:35:59,224 --> 00:36:07,998
of that boat, it must have been
so trying and so depressing.
567
00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:12,435
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Mother nature overwhelms
568
00:36:12,638 --> 00:36:14,004
the mighty Endurance.
569
00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:20,010
Finally, Shackleton gives
the order to abandon ship.
570
00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:26,249
CONRAD ANKER: Their only
hope was to take everything
571
00:36:26,318 --> 00:36:29,852
off that ship that they needed,
and put it on their rescue
572
00:36:29,922 --> 00:36:35,858
boats, and then switch
into survival mode.
573
00:36:35,928 --> 00:36:37,127
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): The 28 men
574
00:36:37,329 --> 00:36:42,999
and 49 dogs can only watch as
the Endurance is overwhelmed.
575
00:36:47,005 --> 00:36:48,938
I can only imagine what
it was like for him when
576
00:36:49,007 --> 00:36:51,540
he sat there, stood on
the ice, and watched
577
00:36:51,610 --> 00:36:53,009
it just slowly implode.
578
00:36:55,814 --> 00:36:57,948
Just a piece of
his heart and soul
579
00:36:58,150 --> 00:36:59,983
probably went down with
that ship when it went.
580
00:37:03,955 --> 00:37:05,622
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): The ship
581
00:37:05,691 --> 00:37:07,991
disappears beneath the surface.
582
00:37:12,964 --> 00:37:17,233
Shackleton and his
men are truly alone.
583
00:37:17,302 --> 00:37:21,771
I think they were much more
lonely than I was on Apollo 13,
584
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,774
because I had
communication with home.
585
00:37:24,843 --> 00:37:26,910
Shackleton, he
didn't have a radio.
586
00:37:27,112 --> 00:37:31,314
He didn't have Wi-Fi,
didn't have a cell phone.
587
00:37:31,516 --> 00:37:32,983
He was alone.
588
00:37:35,053 --> 00:37:37,120
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Shackleton's dream
589
00:37:37,189 --> 00:37:40,523
of becoming the first man to
cross Antarctica is ultimately
590
00:37:40,726 --> 00:37:42,993
crushed along with his ship.
591
00:37:48,132 --> 00:37:52,002
This is where his real
battle for survival begins.
592
00:37:57,142 --> 00:38:01,144
Back on the Agulhas II,
Mensun searches the records.
593
00:38:01,212 --> 00:38:04,347
He believes these hold the
secret to understanding how
594
00:38:04,416 --> 00:38:05,015
the ship sank.
595
00:38:07,219 --> 00:38:11,688
You see in this picture here,
the stern rose up 45 degrees.
596
00:38:11,756 --> 00:38:13,957
The bow went even further down.
597
00:38:14,025 --> 00:38:19,028
And then she just slid
and was gone in minutes.
598
00:38:19,097 --> 00:38:21,831
All this clutter that you
see in this picture here,
599
00:38:21,899 --> 00:38:25,034
all these masts
and yards, all that
600
00:38:25,103 --> 00:38:27,170
was still attached to the
ship when it went down.
601
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:31,240
And that would have imposed an
incredible drag on the sinking
602
00:38:31,309 --> 00:38:32,441
ship.
603
00:38:32,510 --> 00:38:34,444
That would have kept her upright
and would, to some extent,
604
00:38:34,646 --> 00:38:36,245
have slowed her down.
605
00:38:36,315 --> 00:38:37,780
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
As Mensun Bound reviews records
606
00:38:37,849 --> 00:38:40,783
about the Endurance,
suddenly there's
607
00:38:40,852 --> 00:38:43,987
another crisis aboard
the Agulhas II.
608
00:38:56,401 --> 00:38:58,001
Pod's gone.
609
00:39:05,343 --> 00:39:07,877
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
While rescuing the AUV sub,
610
00:39:07,945 --> 00:39:09,813
a critical part of
the underwater robot
611
00:39:10,015 --> 00:39:12,682
has imploded under
the extreme pressures
612
00:39:12,750 --> 00:39:15,017
10,000 feet below the surface.
613
00:39:15,086 --> 00:39:21,691
The robot's electronic
brain is now mangled metal.
614
00:39:21,893 --> 00:39:25,028
We've got a
catastrophic failure.
615
00:39:25,230 --> 00:39:30,700
We don't have all the
electronics to rebuild the ROV.
616
00:39:30,769 --> 00:39:32,368
I don't know what
to say, really.
617
00:39:32,437 --> 00:39:33,169
I just don't.
618
00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:34,437
Yeah.
619
00:39:34,505 --> 00:39:35,004
I'm speechless.
620
00:39:38,109 --> 00:39:39,108
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): The aluminum pod
621
00:39:39,177 --> 00:39:42,379
was designed to withstand
pressure nearly three miles
622
00:39:42,581 --> 00:39:44,047
below the surface.
623
00:39:44,115 --> 00:39:46,983
But Steve thinks the
combination of extreme cold
624
00:39:47,051 --> 00:39:49,519
and a material flaw has
caused it to be crushed.
625
00:39:49,587 --> 00:39:51,120
This is what we found.
626
00:39:51,189 --> 00:39:53,389
One half of the bottle has
pancaked into the other half
627
00:39:53,458 --> 00:39:54,858
of the bottle.
628
00:39:54,926 --> 00:39:56,726
They were quite
substantial electronics.
629
00:39:56,794 --> 00:39:58,661
And they've been
entirely crushed.
630
00:39:58,864 --> 00:40:00,796
This is the first
time in my career
631
00:40:00,865 --> 00:40:01,998
that I've ever seen
this firsthand.
632
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,001
This is an example of what
hydraulic pressure can do.
633
00:40:06,805 --> 00:40:08,070
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): It's
634
00:40:08,140 --> 00:40:12,475
a bitter blow for expedition
archeologist Mensun Bound.
635
00:40:12,544 --> 00:40:13,943
The worst possible news.
636
00:40:14,011 --> 00:40:17,547
I mean, to lose our
electronics like that,
637
00:40:17,615 --> 00:40:19,615
there is no replacement.
638
00:40:19,684 --> 00:40:21,484
We can't fly in spare parts.
639
00:40:21,686 --> 00:40:24,019
There's nothing we can do.
640
00:40:24,088 --> 00:40:26,890
This was what I was going
to use to study the wreck,
641
00:40:26,958 --> 00:40:28,992
really eyeball to
eyeball with the wreck.
642
00:40:40,906 --> 00:40:42,838
The hunt for
Shackleton's Endurance
643
00:40:42,907 --> 00:40:46,575
is stalled thanks to
equipment failure.
644
00:40:46,644 --> 00:40:48,110
And there's a new problem.
645
00:40:48,180 --> 00:40:51,647
The bridge learns their
closest route to the wreck site
646
00:40:51,716 --> 00:40:53,983
is now totally blocked by ice.
647
00:40:56,855 --> 00:40:59,188
Analyzing daily
satellite photographs,
648
00:40:59,257 --> 00:41:04,794
ice pilot Freddy Lighthelm is
hunting for another way in.
649
00:41:04,863 --> 00:41:07,063
We can actually
approach the search site
650
00:41:07,131 --> 00:41:09,399
coming right around all
the ice and approaching it
651
00:41:09,601 --> 00:41:11,067
from the southeast.
652
00:41:11,135 --> 00:41:15,872
With a bit of luck, we can
be cautiously optimistic.
653
00:41:15,941 --> 00:41:18,007
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): The new plan
654
00:41:18,076 --> 00:41:21,810
is to go the long way
around, skirt the pack ice,
655
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,747
and then head toward
the wreck site.
656
00:41:24,816 --> 00:41:27,016
CHAD BONIN: I'm
excited about it.
657
00:41:27,085 --> 00:41:29,552
You can't beat the smile
off my face right about now.
658
00:41:29,754 --> 00:41:32,822
You know, finally getting there.
659
00:41:32,890 --> 00:41:35,091
To be in the same
area where he was at
660
00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:42,565
and to finally locate that
ship is just an excitement
661
00:41:42,634 --> 00:41:44,167
that I really can't explain.
662
00:41:44,235 --> 00:41:45,902
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Finding Shackleton's ship
663
00:41:45,970 --> 00:41:48,004
is the ultimate goal
of this expedition.
664
00:41:51,910 --> 00:41:54,977
But 100 years ago,
losing the Endurance
665
00:41:55,046 --> 00:41:57,647
was just the start of a
journey that would make
666
00:41:57,715 --> 00:41:59,015
Ernest Shackleton a legend.
667
00:42:05,856 --> 00:42:08,457
Stranded on the ice,
Shackleton's men
668
00:42:08,527 --> 00:42:11,060
face impossible odds.
669
00:42:11,262 --> 00:42:15,598
But they have blind faith in
the man they call the boss.
670
00:42:15,667 --> 00:42:17,934
There's this classic quote.
671
00:42:18,003 --> 00:42:20,936
And to paraphrase it,
when the chips are down
672
00:42:21,005 --> 00:42:23,539
and all hope is gone,
get down on your knees
673
00:42:23,608 --> 00:42:26,008
and pray for Shackleton.
674
00:42:26,077 --> 00:42:28,010
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Shackleton orders
675
00:42:28,079 --> 00:42:32,015
his men to march for land
200 miles across the ice.
676
00:42:35,219 --> 00:42:41,624
Shackleton has these massive
sleds with full wooden boats
677
00:42:41,693 --> 00:42:42,992
on them loaded with supplies.
678
00:42:47,231 --> 00:42:51,167
And you could come up to a
massive pressure ridge, blocks
679
00:42:51,236 --> 00:42:57,373
of ice as big as semi trucks
that are shoved up into the air
680
00:42:57,442 --> 00:42:59,175
10, 15, 20 feet.
681
00:42:59,244 --> 00:43:05,048
And so as you're approaching it,
it basically is a wall of ice.
682
00:43:05,116 --> 00:43:07,050
I mean I don't like to
say things are impossible,
683
00:43:07,118 --> 00:43:08,985
but I don't know how they
would get over that stuff.
684
00:43:12,323 --> 00:43:13,456
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
The men cover only nine miles
685
00:43:13,525 --> 00:43:16,992
of pack ice in a week.
686
00:43:17,061 --> 00:43:22,131
Shackleton realizes
reaching land is impossible.
687
00:43:22,199 --> 00:43:26,603
To make matters worse, they're
slowly starving to death.
688
00:43:26,805 --> 00:43:29,072
As food supplies
run out, they're
689
00:43:29,140 --> 00:43:31,607
forced to eat the only
things that brought them joy
690
00:43:31,676 --> 00:43:35,077
in the wilderness, their dogs.
691
00:43:35,146 --> 00:43:38,615
CONRAD ANKER: The companionship
that the dogs provided
692
00:43:38,817 --> 00:43:42,084
the team was quite significant.
693
00:43:42,153 --> 00:43:47,956
That moment must have been
hard on an emotional point,
694
00:43:48,026 --> 00:43:52,561
but it was also a mirror
of how extended they were
695
00:43:52,631 --> 00:43:55,164
and how precarious life was.
696
00:43:55,233 --> 00:44:00,003
If you're shooting your dogs,
you're on the down and outs.
697
00:44:04,042 --> 00:44:05,908
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Then as the ice
698
00:44:05,976 --> 00:44:09,845
they're on drifts closer
to the open ocean,
699
00:44:09,914 --> 00:44:12,015
it starts to break
apart beneath them.
700
00:44:20,858 --> 00:44:22,925
And they have to
rush onto their boats.
701
00:44:22,994 --> 00:44:26,062
They have to throw their
things on their boats.
702
00:44:26,130 --> 00:44:28,464
They have to get into
these boats with everything
703
00:44:28,533 --> 00:44:31,200
they need to survive.
704
00:44:31,269 --> 00:44:36,539
ERIC LARSEN: They have no choice
but to go from relative safety
705
00:44:36,741 --> 00:44:38,007
to basically certain death.
706
00:44:41,279 --> 00:44:42,812
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Shackleton has finally left
707
00:44:43,014 --> 00:44:46,015
the ice that's trapped
him for 15 months.
708
00:44:46,217 --> 00:44:50,987
But now he faces a new
danger, the open Weddell Sea.
709
00:44:56,227 --> 00:45:00,896
Even today, this sea is
nearly impossible to navigate,
710
00:45:00,965 --> 00:45:04,000
as the crew of the
Agulhas II is finding out.
711
00:45:07,105 --> 00:45:12,008
She's stuck in the ice,
just like Shackleton's ship.
712
00:45:15,713 --> 00:45:16,512
MENSUN BOUND: We're stuck.
713
00:45:16,580 --> 00:45:18,914
We're in a whiteout.
714
00:45:18,983 --> 00:45:21,450
The ice is well over 3
meters thick, possibly
715
00:45:21,519 --> 00:45:22,584
even as much as 5.
716
00:45:22,653 --> 00:45:24,987
And we're way, way below 0.
717
00:45:28,059 --> 00:45:29,992
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): In the early hours
718
00:45:30,061 --> 00:45:32,461
of the morning, The ship
was brought to a standstill
719
00:45:32,530 --> 00:45:34,930
by impenetrable fog.
720
00:45:34,999 --> 00:45:39,001
The ice moved in around
her and froze her in.
721
00:45:42,807 --> 00:45:44,741
If the temperature
drops further,
722
00:45:44,943 --> 00:45:47,076
the ice could trap
the crew for days.
723
00:45:47,145 --> 00:45:50,279
And the harsh Antarctic winter
is already barreling down
724
00:45:50,347 --> 00:45:51,480
on them.
725
00:45:51,549 --> 00:45:53,082
But Devon's got an idea.
726
00:45:53,150 --> 00:45:54,884
DEVON JAMES: Well, we could
do like Shackleton did
727
00:45:55,086 --> 00:45:57,019
on the Endurance when
they got stuck in the ice
728
00:45:57,222 --> 00:45:58,955
and had the whole crew run
from one side of the vessel
729
00:45:59,023 --> 00:46:01,991
to the other together
to rock the ship free.
730
00:46:05,363 --> 00:46:07,964
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Instead of using Shackleton's
731
00:46:08,166 --> 00:46:13,035
method, Captain Bengu
tries a different solution,
732
00:46:13,104 --> 00:46:18,007
shifting a 40 ton container
of fuel using his crane.
733
00:46:48,940 --> 00:46:52,074
CHAD BONIN: It sounds
we're moving again.
734
00:46:52,143 --> 00:46:56,212
You can hear the distinct
difference in the sound here.
735
00:46:56,280 --> 00:47:00,416
That's definitely ice scraping
along the side of the vessel
736
00:47:00,618 --> 00:47:00,983
as we're moving forward.
737
00:47:17,234 --> 00:47:19,368
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
A century ago, Shackleton
738
00:47:19,437 --> 00:47:20,969
wasn't so lucky.
739
00:47:21,038 --> 00:47:25,041
When he and his men are
forced onto lifeboats,
740
00:47:25,109 --> 00:47:27,376
they have to battle freezing
winds and ice storms
741
00:47:27,578 --> 00:47:29,011
on the open ocean.
742
00:47:32,116 --> 00:47:36,451
Shackleton sets out for a
tiny island 60 miles away.
743
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:37,987
It's his final hope.
744
00:47:41,326 --> 00:47:44,593
MAN (VOICEOVER): On the seventh
day at sea and barely alive,
745
00:47:44,662 --> 00:47:47,196
they miraculously spot land.
746
00:47:47,264 --> 00:47:51,467
WALTER HOWE (VOICEOVER): And
when they saw Elephant Island,
747
00:47:51,535 --> 00:47:53,068
everybody cheered.
748
00:47:53,137 --> 00:47:59,075
And we pulled as hard as we
could to make our landing.
749
00:47:59,143 --> 00:48:00,810
EDWARD J. LARSON: But it
was a weird sort of euphoria
750
00:48:00,878 --> 00:48:02,945
because they hadn't
made it home.
751
00:48:03,013 --> 00:48:08,017
They had made it onto
a inhospitable rock.
752
00:48:08,086 --> 00:48:11,620
The first night there, what
was left of their tents
753
00:48:11,689 --> 00:48:13,689
were just shredded in the wind.
754
00:48:13,891 --> 00:48:15,824
Humans were not
meant to be there.
755
00:48:15,893 --> 00:48:19,695
The whalers didn't
even come by there.
756
00:48:19,897 --> 00:48:20,963
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): They
757
00:48:21,032 --> 00:48:26,102
are on a tiny, storm
battered pinprick of a rock.
758
00:48:26,304 --> 00:48:27,836
LEONARD HUSSEY (VOICEOVER): Of
course, food was very short.
759
00:48:27,905 --> 00:48:30,772
We had very little
except a little seal
760
00:48:30,841 --> 00:48:33,242
and penguin whenever
they came up.
761
00:48:33,310 --> 00:48:35,578
EDWARD J. LARSON: Shackleton
knew the men could not survive.
762
00:48:35,780 --> 00:48:37,513
Conditions would only get worse.
763
00:48:37,581 --> 00:48:39,915
He had to get help.
764
00:48:39,984 --> 00:48:43,986
And he knew he had to
go as quick as possible.
765
00:48:44,188 --> 00:48:45,988
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
But the only way out
766
00:48:46,057 --> 00:48:48,991
is across the most dangerous
ocean on the planet.
767
00:49:00,939 --> 00:49:03,739
507 days after he was
first trapped by ice
768
00:49:03,941 --> 00:49:05,607
Shackleton begins
the perilous journey
769
00:49:05,676 --> 00:49:08,944
that will make him a legend.
770
00:49:09,013 --> 00:49:12,147
Taking only five men,
two barrels of water,
771
00:49:12,216 --> 00:49:15,284
and four weeks of food rations,
he launches their largest
772
00:49:15,352 --> 00:49:15,985
lifeboat.
773
00:49:18,222 --> 00:49:21,824
There's a picture taken by
Hurley with a little brownie
774
00:49:21,892 --> 00:49:23,892
camera, with a
little camera he had.
775
00:49:23,961 --> 00:49:27,096
That picture scares
the bejesus out of me,
776
00:49:27,298 --> 00:49:33,702
this tiny speck of a boat,
them all waving bravely at them
777
00:49:33,771 --> 00:49:38,173
as if to give them
encouragement.
778
00:49:38,242 --> 00:49:41,777
Most of them must have felt
they were never going to make it
779
00:49:41,846 --> 00:49:43,012
and we're never
going to be saved.
780
00:49:46,050 --> 00:49:47,983
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Shackleton's plan
781
00:49:48,052 --> 00:49:52,521
is to head to the island
of South Georgia, 800 miles
782
00:49:52,590 --> 00:49:55,124
across the Southern Ocean.
783
00:49:55,326 --> 00:49:59,461
Southern Ocean is probably one
of the most treacherous bodies
784
00:49:59,530 --> 00:50:03,265
of water on this planet.
785
00:50:03,334 --> 00:50:07,469
It's not uncommon to have winds
in the 50, 60, 70 mile an hour,
786
00:50:07,538 --> 00:50:09,005
swells up to 100 foot.
787
00:50:09,207 --> 00:50:12,675
The water temperature is
just a little above freezing.
788
00:50:12,743 --> 00:50:15,011
It can sink a vessel in seconds.
789
00:50:18,015 --> 00:50:21,550
It's like going up
a hill or a mountain.
790
00:50:21,752 --> 00:50:22,885
And you go up, and up, and up.
791
00:50:23,087 --> 00:50:24,353
And then you reach the
top and then you go down.
792
00:50:24,555 --> 00:50:25,988
And you skid down.
793
00:50:28,893 --> 00:50:30,559
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): The odds
794
00:50:30,627 --> 00:50:32,961
are stacked against them.
795
00:50:33,031 --> 00:50:36,498
But Shackleton knows if he
doesn't make it to land,
796
00:50:36,567 --> 00:50:38,000
all his men will perish.
797
00:50:44,041 --> 00:50:47,309
He finally spots the
island of South Georgia.
798
00:50:47,512 --> 00:50:48,977
They made it.
799
00:50:49,047 --> 00:50:51,980
They had made the toughest
crossing in the world,
800
00:50:52,049 --> 00:50:55,651
and a vessel never made
that crossing before.
801
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:57,987
There was a sense of euphoria.
802
00:51:01,325 --> 00:51:04,126
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
From his landing point at King
803
00:51:04,195 --> 00:51:07,530
Haakon Bay, the closest
settlement is a whaling station
804
00:51:07,598 --> 00:51:11,133
30 miles to the east.
805
00:51:11,201 --> 00:51:15,004
But blocking his path now is
a towering mountain range.
806
00:51:17,408 --> 00:51:21,010
EDWARD J. LARSON: The mountains
were covered with snow and ice.
807
00:51:21,078 --> 00:51:23,946
And to get some sort of
traction on the snow,
808
00:51:24,015 --> 00:51:28,617
they took nails out of
the boat and pounded them
809
00:51:28,686 --> 00:51:29,985
through the bottom of the shoe.
810
00:51:38,295 --> 00:51:42,898
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
After climbing for 36 hours,
811
00:51:42,966 --> 00:51:47,002
Shackleton finally
limps into civilization.
812
00:51:52,109 --> 00:51:54,243
EDWARD J. LARSON: When
Shackleton told his story
813
00:51:54,311 --> 00:51:57,580
of what they'd been through,
no one in the whaling statioN--
814
00:51:57,648 --> 00:51:58,981
they couldn't believe it.
815
00:51:59,183 --> 00:52:02,985
It was-- every step of this
story was beyond belief.
816
00:52:06,991 --> 00:52:10,059
But of course, it wasn't
over for Shackleton then.
817
00:52:10,261 --> 00:52:11,994
He had to go back and save
the people on Elephant Island.
818
00:52:30,948 --> 00:52:33,015
This is the point
where she went down.
819
00:52:41,092 --> 00:52:41,957
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): The Agulhas II
820
00:52:42,159 --> 00:52:47,630
has finally broken through
to the exact coordinates
821
00:52:47,698 --> 00:52:48,998
of the Endurance wreck site.
822
00:52:55,573 --> 00:52:58,007
It's a major achievement.
823
00:53:03,981 --> 00:53:06,015
Only a handful of ships
have ever been here.
824
00:53:11,522 --> 00:53:12,655
It feels great.
825
00:53:12,857 --> 00:53:14,523
I was up on the
bridge till late.
826
00:53:14,725 --> 00:53:15,391
I only got two hours sleep.
827
00:53:15,459 --> 00:53:16,926
I'm shattered.
828
00:53:17,128 --> 00:53:20,863
But you know, at the same
time, I'm really happy.
829
00:53:20,931 --> 00:53:24,066
But, you know, we
still got to find it.
830
00:53:24,135 --> 00:53:29,338
To actually be here and
able to be part of the search
831
00:53:29,540 --> 00:53:30,405
is very exciting.
832
00:53:30,474 --> 00:53:31,006
I'm ready for it.
833
00:53:33,210 --> 00:53:35,010
CHANNING THOMAS: We're going
to launch from where we're
834
00:53:35,079 --> 00:53:40,015
at all the way down to
3,000 meters to the bottom.
835
00:53:40,217 --> 00:53:42,618
Hopefully, everything works
well according to plan.
836
00:53:42,686 --> 00:53:43,986
And we'll see what happens.
837
00:53:49,026 --> 00:53:50,825
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Existing scans
838
00:53:50,894 --> 00:53:54,563
revealed that the
Agulhas II is floating
839
00:53:54,765 --> 00:53:59,034
above a vast underwater plane.
840
00:53:59,102 --> 00:54:01,970
Here the sea floor plunges
down 40 times the height
841
00:54:02,039 --> 00:54:06,842
of Niagara Falls to a
depth of 10,000 feet.
842
00:54:07,044 --> 00:54:10,178
This is the deepest
zone of the Weddell Sea.
843
00:54:10,247 --> 00:54:14,516
And the crew believes this plane
is the final resting ground
844
00:54:14,584 --> 00:54:15,985
of Shackleton's ship.
845
00:54:22,126 --> 00:54:28,731
10,000 feet down, somewhere
in these icy depths,
846
00:54:28,933 --> 00:54:34,136
lie the remains of
Shackleton's ship.
847
00:54:34,205 --> 00:54:38,007
Remarkably, the water at the
sea floor is below 32 degrees.
848
00:54:41,345 --> 00:54:45,681
It doesn't freeze solid because
of the vast pressures at depth.
849
00:54:45,883 --> 00:54:47,015
MENSUN BOUND: The
depths combined
850
00:54:47,084 --> 00:54:50,419
with the super cold water,
any bacterial activity
851
00:54:50,488 --> 00:54:52,020
will be slowed down.
852
00:54:52,089 --> 00:54:54,423
This is all pretty good
news for the preservation
853
00:54:54,491 --> 00:54:55,991
of the Endurance.
854
00:54:59,229 --> 00:55:03,165
All they've got to do now is
launch the AUV sub to hunt it
855
00:55:03,367 --> 00:55:03,999
down.
856
00:55:17,315 --> 00:55:19,181
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
The propellers bite and the AUV
857
00:55:19,383 --> 00:55:19,982
dives.
858
00:55:26,123 --> 00:55:29,591
That was a successful
launch for the first mission
859
00:55:29,660 --> 00:55:32,794
to search for the Endurance.
860
00:55:32,863 --> 00:55:34,997
If all goes well on
the mission plan,
861
00:55:35,065 --> 00:55:38,801
we should be recovering
in about 42, 43 hours.
862
00:55:39,003 --> 00:55:40,935
Everything's looking
good at the moment.
863
00:55:41,004 --> 00:55:42,938
And we're going to keep
our fingers crossed,
864
00:55:43,140 --> 00:55:45,007
keep thinking positive,
and keep pushing forward.
865
00:55:48,078 --> 00:55:49,345
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Shackleton, too,
866
00:55:49,547 --> 00:55:51,146
pushes forward.
867
00:55:51,215 --> 00:55:54,883
After battling across 800 miles
of open sea for two weeks,
868
00:55:54,952 --> 00:55:57,986
he finally reaches the
island of South Georgia.
869
00:56:03,227 --> 00:56:06,161
SCOTT SHACKLETON: But of course,
it wasn't over for Shackleton
870
00:56:06,363 --> 00:56:07,363
then.
871
00:56:07,565 --> 00:56:11,232
He had to go back and save
the people on Elephant Island.
872
00:56:11,301 --> 00:56:12,968
LAURENCE FISHBURNE (VOICEOVER):
Shackleton strives tirelessly
873
00:56:13,170 --> 00:56:16,004
for four months to break
back through the frozen sea.
874
00:56:19,910 --> 00:56:23,912
At last he approaches
Elephant Island.
875
00:56:24,114 --> 00:56:26,849
And as he's going ashore,
the men on the island
876
00:56:27,051 --> 00:56:28,050
are seeing that their
rescue boat is here.
877
00:56:28,252 --> 00:56:30,986
And they're starting to come
out from under the shelter.
878
00:56:31,188 --> 00:56:35,524
And Shackleton is counting
1, 2, 3, 4, all the way up
879
00:56:35,726 --> 00:56:37,993
until he's counted everyone.
880
00:56:43,133 --> 00:56:47,469
And he looks to Worsley and
says, they're all there.
881
00:56:47,537 --> 00:56:48,870
They're all alive.
882
00:56:48,939 --> 00:56:51,540
And the emotion that
he had at that time
883
00:56:51,742 --> 00:56:54,009
had to be just overwhelming.
884
00:56:59,149 --> 00:57:02,084
JAMES LOVELL: To bring
everybody on his expedition
885
00:57:02,286 --> 00:57:05,954
back home alive was probably
one of the greatest adventure
886
00:57:06,023 --> 00:57:08,991
achievements that we have
in our history books.
887
00:57:15,031 --> 00:57:17,899
On board the Agulhas II,
the crew hunting down
888
00:57:17,968 --> 00:57:20,002
Shackleton's wreck has
suffered a major blow.
889
00:57:25,376 --> 00:57:30,445
30 hours into the dive, the AUV
that's scanning the sea floor
890
00:57:30,514 --> 00:57:33,182
has gone missing.
891
00:57:33,384 --> 00:57:38,654
The multimillion dollar machine
has likely located the wreck,
892
00:57:38,856 --> 00:57:41,523
but AUV operators
Devon and Blake
893
00:57:41,592 --> 00:57:44,192
have lost contact with it.
894
00:57:44,261 --> 00:57:46,995
If they can't reconnect, they'll
never find out what's below.
895
00:57:54,671 --> 00:57:58,674
The AUV could be anywhere.
896
00:57:58,876 --> 00:58:02,611
And temperatures
are dropping fast.
897
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,013
The ice floes are closing in.
898
00:58:11,088 --> 00:58:14,990
As conditions worsen, the
team makes a difficult call.
899
00:58:21,298 --> 00:58:24,966
It's tough to search for an
AUV in this kind of situation.
900
00:58:25,035 --> 00:58:26,968
You know, mother nature,
you know, at some point
901
00:58:27,037 --> 00:58:29,004
puts her foot down and
lets you know who's boss.
902
00:58:33,109 --> 00:58:34,109
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): For now, the team
903
00:58:34,177 --> 00:58:38,013
halts their mission and
reluctantly heads home.
904
00:58:42,119 --> 00:58:43,652
MENSUN BOUND: We were
always up against the ice.
905
00:58:43,854 --> 00:58:45,587
That was always
the enemy for us,
906
00:58:45,656 --> 00:58:48,190
just as it was for Shackleton.
907
00:58:48,392 --> 00:58:49,391
And yeah.
908
00:58:49,593 --> 00:58:50,993
It's beaten us also.
909
00:59:00,004 --> 00:59:01,870
LAURENCE FISHBURNE
(VOICEOVER): Three years
910
00:59:01,939 --> 00:59:04,205
later, undeterred by
the same freezing seas
911
00:59:04,274 --> 00:59:07,809
and howling winds that defeated
both Shackleton and the team
912
00:59:08,012 --> 00:59:10,612
on their previous
attempt, the Agulhas II
913
00:59:10,681 --> 00:59:14,882
returns on a new expedition.
914
00:59:14,952 --> 00:59:17,986
This time, the crew
realizes their dream.
915
00:59:20,290 --> 00:59:22,624
NEWS ANCHOR (VOICEOVER): One
of the most remarkable stories
916
00:59:22,693 --> 00:59:25,093
of survival and determination.
917
00:59:25,161 --> 00:59:27,629
NEWS ANCHOR (VOICEOVER):
10,000 feet below the surface
918
00:59:27,697 --> 00:59:28,830
of Antarctica's Weddell Sea.
919
00:59:28,898 --> 00:59:29,898
NEWS ANCHOR
(VOICEOVER): The secret
920
00:59:29,967 --> 00:59:33,001
the ocean has kept hidden
for over 100 years.
921
00:59:39,176 --> 00:59:44,446
They find the Endurance
resting on the sea floor nearly
922
00:59:44,514 --> 00:59:45,981
two miles down.
923
00:59:46,183 --> 00:59:50,051
As Mensun anticipated, the
ship is largely intact,
924
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:53,989
standing upright, its wood
well preserved by the cold.
925
00:59:58,796 --> 01:00:02,063
The team leaves the
wreck untouched.
926
01:00:02,132 --> 01:00:06,068
Endurance remains in its final
resting place, a chilling
927
01:00:06,136 --> 01:00:10,272
monument to the singular
courage of Ernest Shackleton
928
01:00:10,474 --> 01:00:11,006
and his men.
929
01:00:14,277 --> 01:00:18,012
CONRAD ANKER: Whenever I'm out
there in a tricky situation
930
01:00:18,081 --> 01:00:22,818
climbing or where things
might not be going my way,
931
01:00:23,020 --> 01:00:25,887
I take a bit of Shackleton
and I plug it in.
932
01:00:25,956 --> 01:00:31,426
And I'm like, yeah,
Sir Ernest Shackleton.
933
01:00:31,495 --> 01:00:33,962
He would persevere.
934
01:00:34,030 --> 01:00:36,999
And that is the power
of Shackleton's story.
935
01:00:43,107 --> 01:00:48,976
Shackleton resonates today
because of keeping his men
936
01:00:49,046 --> 01:00:53,514
together, keeping morale
up, doing the impossible,
937
01:00:53,583 --> 01:00:55,383
and then saving them.
938
01:00:55,452 --> 01:00:56,985
That's Endurance.
939
01:01:00,257 --> 01:01:04,926
The astonishing story of the
Endurance, its loss at sea,
940
01:01:04,994 --> 01:01:08,196
and its recent discovery
inspires the world.
941
01:01:08,398 --> 01:01:13,402
Like Shackleton himself and his
men, the team on the Agulhas II
942
01:01:13,604 --> 01:01:15,803
refused to give up.
943
01:01:15,872 --> 01:01:18,740
And now after a
century, we finally
944
01:01:18,942 --> 01:01:21,943
know the last chapter
in this mystery.
945
01:01:22,012 --> 01:01:27,548
Shackleton's lost ice
ship is lost no more.
946
01:01:27,617 --> 01:01:28,750
I'm Laurence Fishburne.
947
01:01:28,819 --> 01:01:33,989
And thanks for watching
"History's Greatest Mysteries."
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