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By Jennifer Ouellette10%
7/10/2026, 12:59:31 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Representativeness Heuristic, Recency Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 38% saturation with 106 hits. Analysis detected 368 faulty-reasoning hits from 279 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 20.9% and a BS Rank of 6% (20,769 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 94.90% of the article peer group.
Back in 2024, we reported on the discovery of the Quest shipwreck, the polar exploration vessel that served Arctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton on his last voyage.
Shackleton died before reaching their destination, and the ship sank in 1962.
The Royal Canadian Geographic Society (RCGS) has now released the first images of the wreck more than 60 years after it sank, published in Canadian Geographic magazine.
Shackleton, of course, is most famous for his ill-fated voyage on the Endurance, which became trapped in sea ice in 1914 and sank.
Shackleton and his crew defied the odds and survived.
(The Endurance shipwreck was finally found in 2022.)
By the time Shackleton returned to England, the country was embroiled in World War I, and many of his men enlisted.
Shackleton was considered too old for active service.
He was also deeply in debt from the Endurance expedition, earning a living on the lecture circuit.
But he still dreamed of making another expedition to the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska to explore the Beaufort Sea.
He got funding from an old school chum, John Quillier Rowett .
Shackleton purchased a wooden Norwegian whaler, Foca I , which his wife Emily renamed Quest .
When the Canadian government withdrew its support, the mission shifted back to the Antarctic, and the Quest received an extensive retrofit.
The improvements included a new deckhouse, a heated crow’s nest, a wireless set, and an odograph for tracing and charting the route automatically, as well as a Lucas deep-sea sounding machine, a large and pricey collection of cameras and photographic equipment, and even a small airplane.
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