#as much as I love the Endurance she really was the Titan Submersible of wooden ships
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I was talking to my dad about antarctic exploration yesterday, and he said that Baron Adrien de Gerlache was the turn-of-the-20th-century equivalent of the OceanGate submarine morons.
I'm not sure how to feel about the fact that he's absolutely not wrong about that.
#as much as I love the Endurance she really was the Titan Submersible of wooden ships#endurance#belgica#madhouse at the end of the earth#polar exploration#belgica expedition#imperial trans-antarctic expedition#polar history#adrien de gerlache#titan submersible#oceangate#maritime disasters
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