{"id":14450,"date":"2022-03-10T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=14450"},"modified":"2022-03-10T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T12:38:00","slug":"nat-geo-announces-documentary-about-endurance-shipwreck-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/03\/10\/nat-geo-announces-documentary-about-endurance-shipwreck-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Geo Announces Documentary About ENDURANCE Shipwreck Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

National Geographic has partnered exclusively with History Hit<\/a>, the SVOD and content platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow; award-winning digital content agency and media network Little Dot Studios<\/a> (an All3Media company); and impact-driven production company Consequential for an epic documentary event detailing the successful search and discovery of one of the great lost shipwrecks of history \u2014 Sir Ernest Shackleton\u2019s Endurance<\/em>. Set to premiere this Fall 2022 as part of National Geographic\u2019s EXPLORER<\/strong> series, this documentary event will air globally on National Geographic Channels and Disney+. The documentary \u2014 also produced in partnership with ABC News \u2014 will be directed by BAFTA-nominated Natalie Hewit<\/strong> (\u201cAntarctica: Ice Station Rescue,\u201d \u201cGreta Thunberg: A Year To Change The World\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exclusive storytelling about the Endurance<\/em> will also be featured across National Geographic\u2019s unrivaled digital and social platforms, including on TikTok (@natgeo<\/a>) and Instagram (@natgeo<\/a>), as well as in a future issue of National Geographic magazine and an episode of the award-winning podcast, \u201cOverheard at National Geographic.\u201d An in-depth story about the finding of Endurance<\/em>, including its historical relevance and featuring exclusive interviews, images and video, is available on natgeo.com<\/a> now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courteney Monroe, President, National Geographic Content, said: <\/strong>\u201cThrough bold exploration and storytelling, National Geographic has taken generations of loyal fans from the deepest depths of the ocean to the peak of Mount Everest, enabling them to see and engage with the world in entirely new ways. The search for Sir Ernest Shackleton\u2019s lost ship, Endurance<\/em>, could not be a more perfect story to continue this proud legacy and join the storied EXPLORER <\/strong>franchise, which for almost four decades has been investigating and reporting on some of the world\u2019s greatest mysteries. It is our hope \u2014 along with our incredible partners on this project \u2014 that the blockbuster story behind Shackleton\u2019s Endurance, <\/em>featuring exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to the high-stakes adventure, will inspire the next generation of explorers and adventurers.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organized by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust<\/a>, the expedition to locate the shipwreck, which has for over a century remained inaccessible and undiscovered, set off from Cape Town on Feb. 5 on a voyage to the Weddell Sea, off the coast of Antarctica where the Endurance<\/em> sank in 1915. The expedition was led by polar geographer Dr. John Shears with marine archaeologist Mensun Bound as Director of Exploration. With them, on board the South African icebreaker Agulhas II, is a crew of scientists and archaeologists alongside a team of highly experienced extreme environment filmmakers, led by Dan Snow for History Hit, who have documented the events in real-time leading up to the historic discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe salute the team at the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust<\/a>, Dr. John Shears, Mensun Bound, and the crew of scientists and archaeologists aboard the South African icebreaker Agulhas II for this incredible discovery and for opening a new chapter in one of the most fabled stories in exploration history,\u201d said Debra OConnell, President, Networks, Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution<\/strong>. \u201cFrom the stories we are telling right now on natgeo.com, the ABC Network through ABC News and our ABC Owned Television Stations to what will be an exceptional documentary on the National Geographic Channels and Disney+ this fall, we are excited about the ways in which we will illuminate and celebrate the achievement of this remarkable team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took 10 days for the crew to reach the search area after navigating tricky terrain and icy waters. After overcoming technical challenges and conducting multiple survey sweeps, the wreck was found 100 years after Shackleton\u2019s death, at a depth of 3008 meters in the Weddell Sea. The wreck was found within the search area defined by the expedition team before its departure from Cape Town and approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by Captain Worsley, using submersibles called Saab Sabretooths, equipped with 4k cameras and lighting arrays. The wreck appears to be well preserved due to the lack of wood-eating microbes in the Weddell Sea. The team is still on location, studying the wreck and documenting their findings. They are set to begin their return voyage back to Cape Town this month. The wreck will remain untouched and without any artifacts removed, where it has lain for more than a century \u2014 but the results of the discovery will provide significant insights into Ernest Shackleton\u2019s Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition and offer an incredible opportunity to bring the stories of Shackleton to new generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has been the most ambitious broadcasting project ever undertaken from the ice of the Weddell Sea. History Hit, Little Dot Studios and Consequential have produced a range of content covering the setting up of the expedition, the voyage and search, and now the discovery itself, as well as the history, science, and other themes that connect to the wider mission. Short-form content has and will continue to be distributed to millions of subscribers with exclusive content breaking first on TikTok, followed by History Hit TV, HistoryHit.com and History Hit\u2019s podcast network and other social channels, together with Little Dot Studios\u2019 network of owned and operated digital and social media accounts including \u201cTimeline World History,\u201d \u201cEarth Stories\u201dand \u201cReal Stories.\u201d National Geographic has the exclusive long-form documentary chronicling this incredible expedition and their triumph set to air later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Endurance<\/em> left South Georgia for Antarctica on Dec. 5, 1914, carrying Shackleton and 27 other men with the goal of reaching the South Pole and ultimately crossing the continent via an overland trek. However, when nearing Antarctica, the ship became trapped in pack ice, and the crew was forced to spend the winter in the frozen landscape. After being stuck in the ice for some ten months, Endurance<\/em> finally succumbed to the pressure of the pack ice and sank. Following the ship\u2019s sinking, the crew was forced to make their way by sea to uninhabited Elephant Island before Shackleton and five men set off in a lifeboat on an epic journey to seek help from a whaling station in South Georgia, more than 800 miles away. After several attempts, Shackleton eventually made it back to Elephant Island to rescue his crew and, miraculously, all of the men under his command in the Weddell Sea survived two years in the wilds of Antarctica, making it one of history\u2019s great stories of human survival. Shackleton himself died of a heart attack on Jan. 5, 1922, aged 47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan Snow, co-founder and creative director of History Hit, said<\/strong>: \u201cThis has been the most exciting and challenging experience of my career so far. The team has found not only the world\u2019s most famous shipwreck but also its most inaccessible. After going through storms, blizzards and thick sea ice, we have got some astonishing images of Endurance<\/em> and a laser scan accurate to within centimeters. People thought the story of Endurance<\/em> was over when it sank in November 1915, but it wasn\u2019t. This is the start of a new chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Geographic Society has a long history with Ernest Shackleton, who in 1910 received the Society\u2019s Hubbard Medal \u2014 the organization\u2019s highest honor \u2014 for his Antarctic exploration. The award was presented by President William Howard Taft following a National Geographic Society lecture by Shackleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little Dot Studios is represented for television by CAA. The long-form documentary is being directed and produced by Natalie Hewit (\u201cAntarctica: Ice Station Rescue,\u201d \u201cGreta Thunberg: A Year To Change The World\u201d) with executive producers Paul Woolf for Little Dot Studios, Ruth Johnston for Consequential LLC, Bill Locke for History Hit. For EXPLORER<\/strong> and ABC News, Drew Pulley and Jeanmarie Condon are executive producers. For National Geographic, Alan Eyres, Charlie Parsons and Bengt Anderson are executive producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Geographic has partnered exclusively with History Hit, the SVOD and content platform co-founded by historian Dan Snow; award-winning digital content agency and media network Little Dot Studios (an All3Media company); and impact-driven production company Consequential for an epic documentary event detailing the successful search and discovery of one of the great lost shipwrecks of… Continue reading Nat Geo Announces Documentary About ENDURANCE Shipwreck Discovery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-14450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-national-geographic","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}