The Ship Beneath the Ice Quotes

“Shackleton’s expedition was rather grandly entitled the ‘Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition”
― Mensun Bound, The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

“It used to be said that the sea was a ruthlessly hostile environment which you only ventured at your peril.”
― Mensun Bound, The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

“Ships can give you moments of subliminal happiness but they can also stretch you in ways you never thought possible.”
― Mensun Bound, The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

“In broad terms, we are trying to find the Endurance so that she might be protected into the future, when conservation science will have advenced sufficiently for a responsible body to consider raising her remains for preservation and public display.”
― Mensun Bound, The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance