Mensun Bound joins Cunard's Insights speaker program after
discovering Shackleton's iconic ship, the Endurance, in
March 2022
VALENCIA, Calif., May 11, 2022
/CNW/ -- Maritime archaeologist, Mensun Bound, who made headlines
across the world in March with the discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, will
head out to sea again this summer to talk exclusively to Cunard
guests.
It is a huge honor to welcome Mensun Bound
so soon after his historical expedition captured the world's
attention.
Bound will join Queen Mary 2 in
Southampton for a 7-night
Transatlantic Crossing on June 24,
2022, before arriving in New
York on July 2. Returning in
2023, the maritime archaeologist will join Queen Elizabeth for a 13-night voyage from
Alaska to San Francisco, taking in some of the world's
most breath-taking scenery and wildlife.
"It is a huge honor to welcome Mensun Bound on board our
flagship Queen Mary 2 so soon after
his historical expedition captured the world's attention," said
Matt Gleaves, Vice President,
Commercial, Cunard, North America
and Australasia. "I know our guests will be enthralled by his
first-hand account of his Endurance 22 expedition, as well as his
extraordinary, decades-spanning career."
In his role as Trustee of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust,
the maritime archaeologist from Oxford was the Director of Exploration for the
team of crack deep-ocean robotic technologists that, on
March 5, 2022, discovered the most
storied shipwreck of them all, three kilometers beneath the
perennial sea ice of Antarctica.
Crushed by pack ice, the ship sank in 1915 at the heart of what
Shackleton himself called 'the worst portion of the worst sea on
earth.' In an exclusive talk and Q&A on board Queen Mary 2 in June, Bound will talk publicly
for the first time since returning from his historical expedition.
Discussing his remarkable career, Bound will reveal how they
penetrated the pack to find 'the world's most unreachable wreck,'
the iconic Endurance, upright and in a superb state of preservation
on the mysterious abyssal plain of the Weddell Sea.
Bound, said: "It's been the most extraordinary few months with
my feet yet to touch the ground since the Endurance 22 Expedition
concluded. To find a vessel of such historical significance is
something that is hard to truly capture in a few words. However, I
am very much looking forward to joining Queen Mary 2 and sharing my excitement and
experiences for the first time with Cunard's guests."
Born in the Falkland Islands,
Mensun Bound was the Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at
St. Peter's College, Oxford, and the director of the first academic
unit for underwater archaeology in England. Known as the
'Indiana Jones of the Deep,' Bound has conducted wreck surveys and
excavations all over the world in a career that has spanned 40
years.
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