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Scans of the wreck, including the hold, foremast and bow, matched features marked in drawings of the ship.

The floe, which Worsley estimated at possibly a million tons, pressed so hard against Endurance that her beams began to buckle and her foremast jerked and shook like a cornstalk in the wind.

From amidship, a man could not see the bow; he could not even see the foremast.

“We still have to repair the foremast. Then I need your help in the engine room. I’ve got an idea for a new installation.”

The parrot perches high on the foremast, squawking at a volume far too loud for such a small bird.