 Although they succeeded in cutting through the pack to the point where the Endurance sank, the hunt had to be abandoned when the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) conducting the seabed search failed to arrive at a programmed rendezvous point with the ship.Discovery Channel has called Bound "the Indiana Jones of the Deep".Michael "Mensun" Bound was born on 4 February 1953 in Stanley, Falkland Islands.