Tag: Mensun Bound

• Sunday, December 11th 2022 - 15:00 UTC

  Book review: The Ship Beneath the Ice

  

  The loss of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance is the stuff of legend. She was crushed in the ice of the Weddell Sea in 1915. The subsequent escape of Shackleton and his men is an epic of heroism and survival.

• Wednesday, October 26th 2022 - 01:05 UTC

  “The ship beneath the Sea”, Shackleton's Endurance

  

  “Well, what about the Endurance,” was the seed of the challenge suggested by a good friend of maritime archeologist Mensun Bound when they met in south Kensington at Caffe Nero, for a coffee in the summer of August 2012.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2022 - 10:03 UTC

  Falklands Mensun Bound received a lifetime achievement award in Montecarlo

  

  Falklands marine archaeologist, Mensun Bound, received a lifetime achievement award on September 14 on behalf of the Atlantic Youth Trust. The award was presented by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, at a gala dinner in Montecarlo. 2022 marks the 40th year since Mensun began directing underwater archaeological excavations.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 23:29 UTC

  Antarctic Treaty members agree to protect Shackleton's Endurance wreck 3.000 meters deep in the Weddell Sea

  

  A 500m perimeter is being implemented to aid the protection of Endurance, the ship famously lost in the Antarctic by explorer Ernest Shackleton. The vessel's position on the Weddell Sea floor was finally identified in March, 107 years after its sinking.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  Mensun Bound will be the speaker of Endurance 22 in Cunard cruises

  

  Falkland Islander marine archaeologist, Mensun Bound, who became famous when the discovery last March of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, will be talking about the historical expedition to Cunard line passengers.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Endurance Conquered: A conversation with Mensun Bound, Director of Exploration of the Endurance22 project

  

  By Sean Kingsley for Wreckwatch magazine* – Mensun Bound is a fifth-generation Falkland Islander, born to the sea and its mysteries. By fusing academia with firing the public imagination, he creates buzz after buzz around underwater archaeology. In the 1980s he set up and directed Oxford University MARE, England’s first academic maritime archaeological unit, and in 1994 was appointed the Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St Peter’s College, Oxford.

• Thursday, May 19th 2022 - 23:48 UTC

  Reach the World to Honor the Endurance22 Expedition with the 2022 Cronkite Award

  

  The Endurance22 expedition will receive Reach the World’s 2022 Cronkite Award for Excellence in Storytelling. Reach the World will present the award at its Annual Benefit in New York City on July 20, 2022.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 18:54 UTC

  Mensun Bound will lecture on the discovery of “Endurance” onboard Cunard's Queen Mary 2

  

  Mensun Bound, who as Director of Exploration of the team that on March 5 discovered Sir Ernest Shackleton’s sunken ship Endurance in the Weddell Sea, will deliver talks onboard Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 in 2022 and 2023.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance is Found

  

  The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust confirmed on Wednesday that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship which has not been seen since it was crushed by the ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 23:49 UTC

  Endurance22 expedition nosed its course for Antarctica in search of the whereabouts of Shackleton's shipwreck

  

  Today, February 5th at 0700 GMT, a chunky, cherry-red ice breaker nosed its way out of Cape Town’s famous Table Bay, and shaped a course for Antarctica, 3000 nautical miles to the South West.