{"id":450457,"date":"2026-05-15T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450457\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:58:09","slug":"watch-bold-ambitions-behind-spirit-of-shackleton-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450457\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Bold ambitions behind &#8216;Spirit of Shackleton&#8217; yacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A yacht inspired by the explorer Ernest Shackleton is set to become a &#8220;floating classroom&#8221; for young people to explore the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Spirit of Shackleton&#8217; is a 70-foot former Clipper Race yacht which has been transformed into a platform for ocean science, youth leadership and global expeditions.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Shackleton Global Foundation said the vessel will support research partnerships and training programmes in Ireland, Europe and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Watch our video to find out more about the initiative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A yacht inspired by the explorer Ernest Shackleton is set to become a &#8220;floating classroom&#8221; for young people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-450457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}