A Real-Life Indiana Jones Discovers Shackleton’s Lost Ship

The apex of marine archaeologist Mensun Bound’s stellar career happened a year ago this week, when the expedition he spearheaded found Ernest Shackleton’s “Endurance” at the bottom of an Antarctic sea. This was just the latest find in a career marked by big discoveries, including a 2,500-year-old Etruscan ship and a Roman wreck weighed down by massive stone columns looted from Athens.

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