Shackleton’s Endurance revealed in high detailed 3D scans

[MiddenMonster]

Absolutely amazing pictures here. You can see the grain of the wood on the planks, along with plates still sitting on the table and even a his res picture of the ship's wheel. Stunning in every way:

Shackleton’s Endurance revealed in high detailed 3D scans

Actually look like some little critters are living on the ship's wheel.

 

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[Tpmetal]

Cool stuff, thanks for posting it.

 

[Mackaydon]

Impossible for me to put my head around what they must have endured.
(No pun intended)
Don in SoCal

 

[MiddenMonster]

Impossible for me to put my head around what they must have endured.
(No pun intended)

As bad as it was, it was still a level up from what the Franklin Expedition went through on the other end of the world. I have a hard time wrapping my head around what everyone who sailed the seas before diesel engines endured. Let's say it's 1750 and you sail from Europe to what is about to become the United States. The voyage is perfect in every way; no problems at all. I be that those people still endured more than what most people outside the Third World are willing to endure. My dad came to the United States after WWII (The Big One) on a ship, and he said that he was puking over the rails all the way over. And back then that was what, less than a week? Several months of being tossed around, eating crappy food and living in relative filth is not something I would have volunteered for back then. And Shackleton was light years ahead of them, yet life at sea was only slightly less grueling than for those who came before him.