She was in rough seas and sinking fast, mayday calls went unanswered and the situation was looking utterly bleak for the crew and passengers, which included students from the British Schools Exploration Society. The engines shut down and the ship lost all power. ![]() Within 30 minutes the engine room, which was half the size of an olympic swimming pool, was filled with water. On the 16th December 2008 she was sailing in the Magellan Straights when a valve failed. HMS Endurance was the Royal Navy’s icebreaker and Antarctic patrol ship. Tom risked everything to remove an incompetent bully from command and the affair culminated in the captain being marched down his own gangplank and off his ship at Gibraltar.īoth of these incidents had press coverage at the time. The book will also cover other notable episodes in his career including the removal of Captain David Axon from command of HMS Somerset which Tom was instrumental in bringing about. ![]() Particular Media are working with Tom to create a book focusing on his personal evolution as a leader and how he developed his strategies, techniques and philosophies for dealing with crises, with the book including an in depth, minute-by-minute telling of the near-sinking of HMS Endurance, with an analysis of why it happened and what averted a major tragedy. For his actions that day Tom was made an OBE and is now a defence commentator and advisor on leadership and crisis management. ![]() Commander Tom Sharpe was captain of HMS Endurance in 2008 when she sprang a catastrophic leak in the South Atlantic.
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