One of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age is coming to Dallas. On October 31, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science welcomes renowned marine archaeologist Mensun Bound for a firsthand account of the extraordinary expedition that found Sir Ernest Shackleton’s long-lost ship, the Endurance.
The Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice in 1915, during Shackleton’s legendary Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, and vanished beneath the Weddell Sea for more than a century. When the Endurance22 expedition finally located it, the ship was found remarkably preserved, upright on the seabed, more than 3,000 meters down — a discovery that captured the imagination of the world.
Bound, the expedition’s Director of Exploration and a fifth-generation Falkland Islander, will share the full story of the search live from the stage of the Hoglund Foundation Theater, from the technology that made it possible to the unforgettable moment the wreck appeared on camera.
The talk begins at 1:30pm and is a rare chance to hear history directly from the person who lived it. Add a day of hands-on science at the Perot and you have a perfect Halloween-weekend outing in Dallas.
Photo: Perot Museum of Nature and Science
