“Shackleton was nearly torn from his seat by the deluge of water that swept over him…

“For an instant, nothing existed but water. They couldn’t even tell whether she was upright. But then the instant was over; the wave had rolled on, and the Caird, though stunned and half dead under a load of water that rose nearly to the seats, was miraculously still afloat. Crean and McNeish seized the first implements that came to hand and began to bail furiously…

“The ballast had shifted and the glass on the compass was broken—but they apparently had won.”

— Alfred Lansing, Endurance