Tag: Mensun Bound

• Friday, June 6th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

  Historic polar ship SS Terra Nova revisited in first-ever wreck survey

  

  An expedition led by the motor yacht MY Legend has completed the first visual survey of the wreck of the SS Terra Nova, offering new insight into one of the most emblematic ships of polar exploration. Located off the coast of Greenland, the wreck was first discovered in 2012, nearly 70 years after the ship sank during World War II.

• Thursday, April 24th 2025 - 06:53 UTC

  Mensun Bound Inspires at Ocean Business 2025, Southampton

  

  Mensun Bound, renowned maritime archaeologist and Trustee of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT), delivered a powerful keynote speech at the prestigious launch of Ocean Business 2025, held earlier this month in Southampton.

• Tuesday, April 8th 2025 - 23:47 UTC

  Mensun Bound highlights Ocean Heritage at Ocean Business 2025 launch in Southampton

  

  Renowned maritime archaeologist Mensun Bound delivered the keynote address today at the opening of Ocean Business 2025, a leading global event for ocean science and technology professionals.

• Friday, March 7th 2025 - 08:16 UTC

  How Shackleton’s Endurance was found, Falklands Maritime Heritage

  

  Celebrating the 3rd anniversary of finding Endurance, the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust has released for the first time an animated film of the full route of the Endurance22 team from the start of their search in Cape Town to finding it in the Weddell Sea, with input from Falkland Islander Mensun Bound’s daily diaries

• Sunday, December 1st 2024 - 21:25 UTC

  Battle of Falklands, commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the great naval engagement of 8 December 1914

  

  Next Sunday, the 8th December 2024, the Falkland Islands commemorate the 110th anniversary of the first great victory of the Royal Navy in the First World War. The Falklands naval engagement took place to the south east of the Islands, chasing and sinking the pride of the German Imperial Navy, the East Asia squadron led by Admiral Graf von Spee.

• Monday, November 4th 2024 - 20:08 UTC

  New deep-sea video uncovers remarkable details of Shackleton’s Endurance wreck

  

  A recently released deep-sea video by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust (FMHT) unveils remarkable finds aboard Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary ship Endurance, which sank over a century ago.

• Saturday, November 2nd 2024 - 12:57 UTC

  New documentary “Endurance” chronicles Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic voyage

  

  A new documentary titled Endurance has premiered, bringing to life the remarkable survival story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition. The film, from National Geographic Documentary Films, combines restored archival footage of the century-old expedition with the modern-day quest to discover the wreckage of Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, which was found in 2022. The documentary is directed by Academy Award® winners Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, along with BAFTA® nominee Natalie Hewit.

• Sunday, October 20th 2024 - 15:46 UTC

  Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust chair to step down

  

  Donald Lamont, long-serving Chair of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust board of Trustees is retiring from his roles as chairman and Trustee. He will relinquish his role as chairman on 21st October 2024 and will resign as a Trustee on 4th November 2024.

• Saturday, October 12th 2024 - 11:20 UTC

  Premier of the discovery of the “Endurance” at the London Film Festival

  

  This Saturday, October 12, a documentary film about the discovery of the ship “Endurance” by the great Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will be presented at the London Film Festival.

• Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

  Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and a bit of history on Eundurance22

  

  On 5th March 2022 the Endurance22 Expedition, organized and funded by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, located the wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s iconic three-masted polar sailing ship, Endurance, which had not been seen since it was crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915. Among the team of Endurance 22 was Mensun Bound, a Falklands born maritime archeologist who was Director of Exploration.