OPINION - Wrecks, worms and wood: a scientific legacy of Shackleton’s Endurance

“I have been thinking much of our prospects,” Ernest Shackleton wrote in the austral spring of 1915, adrift in the Weddell Sea pack ice. Much of the same thinking crossed my mind in February 2018, when I awoke my cabin mate Thomas on the UK research ship James Clark Ross to tell him that I thought we too, were stuck in the Weddell. This notorious sea, famed and feared by Antarctic sailors for much of the 20th century for its relentlessly shifting, crushing pack was soon to do for our expedition too.

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