If you've ever felt like there was someone else with you even though you knew you were completely alone...well, you just might have experienced "third man syndrome." ...

There are 8000 shipwrecks off Australia alone, many more still to be found. Yet stunning discoveries still happen. What does ...

One hundred years on from the death of the famous polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, the UK’s new polar research ship, RRS Sir David Attenborough, will be exploring the very same region where ...

The account of Shackleton’s journey to Elephant ... the results and arrange for relief. Then Sir Ernest learnt the fate of the second ship which was to have approached the Pole from the opposite ...

Such stories often provide the reader/listener with ideas that may not have been previously known or considered and can ...

HMS Unicorn’s only sea voyage, in fact, was in 1873 when a paddle steamer towed it up to the Tay estuary in Dundee for its ...

Variously known as Drakes' Shake, "the most dreaded bit of ocean on the Globe" and home to the world's worst storms, the ...

The October 2025 sailing features guest speaker Mensun Bound: a marine archaeologist and director of exploration for the March 2022 discovery expedition of Endurance, the sunken ship of legendary ...

While the beginning of Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain (1966) is set on a ship in a Norwegian fjord ... about explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole from 1914 to 1916 ...

The versatile performers in the BBC Concert Orchestra will be giving three diverse performances in the space of a week at ...