Captain Frank Worsley signs on as Captain of the Endurance to navigate Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to Antarctica. When the expedition ship is crushed; Worsley's seamanship and navigational skills saves them all.
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackletons Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition headed forthe South Pole and disaster. SHACKLETONS CAPTAIN reveals the truth behind thespectacular rescue and shows how one mans extra-ordinary skills and unsung heroismmade it possible: Frank Worsley, Captain of the expedition ship, Endurance.Worsley was faced with seemingly insurmountable odds when the Endurance becametrapped in the pack ice off the coast of Antarctica. The ship was slowly crushed, forcingWorsley and his crew to abandon ship. They spent the next ten months living onthe ice floe before rowing three life boats to a desolate rock called Elephant Island.The men were facing slow starvation in the freezing cold and with no rescue in sightWorsley, Shackleton and four crew were forced to risk everything by sailing one of thetiny life boats eight hundred miles across the Southern Ocean to the small island ofSouth Georgia where they hoped to find help at a Norwegian whaling station. Twentyeight lives were in the balance as master sailor Frank Worsley navigated in the worstconditions imaginable; rogue waves, ice bergs and a hurricane in a journey modernsailors consider to be one of the greatest sailing voyages of all time.
