In 1914 a ship captain shut down his engines to save his crew from Antarctic ice. In 1914, during Ernest Shackleton’s famed Endurance expedition, the ship became hopelessly trapped in thick Antarctic pack ice. As the floes tightened around the hull, Captain Frank Worsley made a counterintuitive decision — he ordered the engines shut down. Running the engines against the crushing ice might have torn open the hull, so Worsley chose patience over power. For weeks the crew listened to the groaning t