The World's Most Dangerous Sea Route - Bypassing Cape Horn and Crossing the Drake Passage

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An old sailing saying goes, “Below 40 degrees latitude, there is no law; below 50, there is no God.”

Cape Horn lies at fifty-six degrees South latitude. The Drake Passage is even lower. Their reputation is so bad that it's hard to imagine a worse one. Today you will discover the location of the most powerful ocean current, why sailors were honored to wear an earring in their left ear, and how a private company could oppose entire states?

Cape Horn, located on the like-named island, is the southernmost point of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. There are more than 500 miles from it to Antarctica. Although it is often mistakenly referred to as the southernmost point of the continental landmass of America itself, but this is not exactly true.

Such a point is Cape Froward, while Cape Horn is located on an island. The word "on the edge of the world" is just the right term for such points on the planet. Two oceans meet here: the Atlantic and the Pacific, which creates a unique, but very treacherous climate for the navigator.

The weather on the island tends to be windy and overcast, with almost no sun. There are more than 280 rainy days a year. Temperatures range from 28.4 to 57.2 degrees Fahrenheit. The average wind speed is 95 miles per hour. Just to be clear - even the average wind strength on the island is a category 1 hurricane according to the Saffir-Simpson scale, which is why many call the climate in the Cape Horn area the worst on earth.

So get comfy. We're gonna tell you all about it.

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We are curious to hear your opinion about this video in the comments.

thetraveler_en
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The average wind speed is not 95 mph. That’s an absurd idea.

geoffkryten
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I just finished the best selling book called The Wager, a british man-of-war that was shipwrecked in that area. It makes a FASCINATING read only made even better by your video!

kristinarassidaki
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Been around and through it - coming and going both ways. Incredibly beautiful. I remember the 95 mph winds, didn’t know that was the norm!

Dantanalicious
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The famous north american writer of "Two years before the Mast", Richard Dana, was a sailor in a square rigger in the XIX century, and told it took 100 days to get past from Atlantic to Pacific....

ricardoprovan
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A grave historical mistake: Drake Passage was discovered by spanish adventurer Francisco de Hoces in 1526.

ricardoprovan
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Why does every sentence sound the same? Is nothing of greater or lesser significance? Are there no drama students looking for voice work?

bobstuart
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Great editing, very informative/descriptive, you did alot of research on this and covered all the information anyone needs to know or questions 😀 I'd give it 2 thumbs up if I could 😂
God bless you and your family and everyone out here.

pattydemnicki
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It is a very good descriptive video, although it would be correct to indicate that the passage was discovered 90 years before the Dutch navigators by the Spanish explorer Francisco de Hoces, therefore the place is also known as "Mar de Hoces"

pierobarbato
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I sailed there too once in 2017 and twice in the magellan strait.

juliuspalmos
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Very Narrative and Detailed Descriptions and
Informations
of
The Drake Passage

We get a much better Insight of it

Thanks for every of your effort

raymondluk
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Cape Horn: 800+ ships
Columbia River Bar: Hold my beer

karenwalters
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it's a place I've heard about a few times. I've was lucky enough to talk to a man who has been around the cape Horn he said it was Beautiful but deadly. As it's a place I would like to see .

donaldhudson
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I am here because of The Wager by David Grann.

benjaminrneal
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I got my Cape Horn Earring in the Falkland Islands in 1982, we had earlier crossed the Southern ocean from New Zealand in a 39 foot Ketch, rounded Cape Horn and arrived in Port Stanley around 1 or 2 in the morning, we then proceeded to celebrate and got very very drunk, all non earring wearers were pierced, i.e. just me. The skipper got a stud and just pushed it through my ear lobe, he struggled to get it through and it took some heavy pushing and prodding which wasn't ideal. We ended up asleep by around 6am and were then woken by local officials at 7am to clear us in (immigration etc) and to give us our mail, apparently, we were seen arriving during the night. The Butler/chauffeur from the governor's mansion also arrived inviting us to a lunch with the governor, we were not looking our best. We ended up leaving the Falklands a week later after an amazing fun drunken stay and about 2 weeks before they were invaded by Argentina, actually we were still sailing to our next port in Brazil when we heard of the invasion on BBC radio.

howardkip
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Been there done that
3 oceans meet there and swells and waves can get much higher

MarkHolmgren-js
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Well done. Do make additional documentaries of the history regarding subject matter.

FernRoses
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That's some awful calm seas for 95mph wind

billallen
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I sailed around Cape Horn once in my maritime career in January 1978 and it was as calm as a mill pond. More correctly Hornos Island, Chile (in English) as opposed to Horn Island Australia.

Vagabondo-fsqu
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Some great film, but please don't blot out big chunks with massive captions

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