Left STRANDED On Wooden Raft In the Ocean

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This video covers the historical account of the Raft of the Medusa and the context and circumstances which led up to the tragedy. French painter Theodore Gericault later tried to capture the essence of the tragedy in his painting "The Raft of the Medusa".
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Norway National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Sailko, Rama
Writing and research by Rich Firth-Godbehere
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NOTE: The picture used frequently to show the raft of the Medusa is a painting and NOT a real image.
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[@hopegallows1392]

I was lucky enough to see the painting in person and I wish you could show the scale of it. The canvas was like 16ft by 23ft, literally larger than life. And the bodies have this sharp contrast between the living and the dead. Gericault did an amazing amount of research into how the human body changes in the hours after death.

[@flash_flood_area]

Wow, I'd like to see that in person!

[@ScaryInteresting]

That's incredible. I had no idea it was that big

[@mateuszbednarski_fizjo]

Totally true. You can feel the dread, the despair, hope flickering like a candle light... Horrifyingly beautiful painting. But on the second note the Louvre Museum is SO OVER PACKED with paintings and other works of art that you can't grasp the beauty... after a while it's hard to appreciate because it's a great work of art after another and another and so on, so forth...

[@hopegallows1392]

@@mateuszbednarski_fizjo Oh definitely. I went on a school trip with the art history class and after a certain point everyone was just overwhelmed. I vividly remember what I saw the raft of the Medusa bc I didn’t know it was in the room until I turned around.

[@guyanomaly]

I am so jealous.

[@prdurnion83]

The first bad omen wasn't the loss of the single man overboard; it was the appointing of an incompetent officer over such a magnificent vessel. A snowball effect of epic proportions.

[@Scipio_Americanus]

Ok karen

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

​@festina_lente7655 Your comment doesn't even make sense. What are you, 12 years old?

[@Sammael251]

As is so often the cause of huge military blunders. Overpromoted, terrible officers.

[@RSTBKT]

@@Scipio_Americanus ?

[@ANiMALFRiENDS_GOLDMAN]

The first bad omen was a black seagull died and landed on a rat and some blood squirted into the captains wife's eye and she died of weiss disease but they don't mention it .....yeoh yeoh hmmmmm?

[@floboboman]

The sea is so terrifying and unforgiving. Stranded 31 miles from the coast might as well be 1000 miles. Thank you for telling this story

[@saranshgautam6551]

Imagine slowly suffering and dying of thirst, starvation or violence.. Only 10/200 people made it back.

[@kimpeater1]

@mehrimazedeh no one cares

[@lordarcyus2862]

Bro, you didn’t even watch the whole video. You commented too fast

[@MagikarpMan]

​@@saranshgautam6551why not just say 5/100?

[@humble2246]

@mehrimazedeh and of course someone has to mention politics

[@flash_flood_area]

That kid who fell through the porthole and wasn't rescued... what a lonely nightmare he must've gone through

[@devanov3103]

He became Aquaman.

[@thurayya8905]

Poor boy, probably thought with the optimism of youth that they would come save him.

[@perigeedynamics5941]

I nearly had the same thing happen to me in the Northern Canadian Atlantic. I was going on vacation with a friend and their family to Newfoundland, Canada in January. It was a night time ferry ride across a stretch of Atlantic Ocean and I felt very sea sick. I figured I could get some air outside and it would make me feel better. I grabbed my coat and walked to the door. I took a single step on the wet deck and slid very hard into the railing. Both my feet slid under the bottom railing and were dangling off the boat. I remember staring into what looked like a black brine that shined yellow on the waves from the amber lights and thinking I was certainly dead. Luckily I caught myself with the top rail under my armpits and was able to regather my footing and make for the door. I went back to my seat and sat there eyes wide staring out the window at the blackness of the night. I would have died in a couple minutes at best, and no one would have known until we had docked several hours later. I make better decisions these days. That poor man felt the hope of knowing the crew was trying to help him and watched the sails lessen. The mental war he faced is nothing I could ever imagine.

[@chuckaddison5134]

Probably not for long, depending on water temperature he could have endured three or four days before succoming to thirst. Or as little as a few minutes before hypothermia took him. That the Medusa failed to reduce sail and launch a boat to fetch him is pretty callous.

[@rufus231]

That kid who fell through the porthole... Is that the most interesting part of the story for you ?

[@Nintenja889]

For anyone wondering why they packed wine on the raft, it was likely the only potable liquid they had, so it wasn’t like they were looking to get drunk: they kept it to stay hydrated.

[@sweetmissypetuniawilson9206]

How does wine keep you hydrated?

[@jakeaaron]

@@sweetmissypetuniawilson9206 Because wine is still mostly water.

[@sweetmissypetuniawilson9206]

@@jakeaaron Alcohol is a diuretic, even beer has water but it's still a diuretic. So unless you're able to match glass/glass wine/water you're gonna dehydrate.

[@jakeaaron]

@@sweetmissypetuniawilson9206 Tell that to ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians.

[@tictacman1000]

@@jakeaaron It's literally just a fact that drinking wine will make you more dehydrated

[@lekal6247]

The fact that 3 people who stayed on the ship survived is amazing, i wonder what stories they had to tell.

[@Mude-wv9bj]

Better don't ask them

[@lekal6247]

@@Mude-wv9bj huh?

[@Mude-wv9bj]

@@lekal6247 Probably cannibalism

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

Deprivation. Wasting. Sunburn. Hallucinations. Most likely murder and vampirism.

[@Clint52279]

Survivors journal: "Day 1: Got bored... ate Francois. Day 2: Sooo booorreed! Ate Philipe. Day 3: "Ugh! Boring, boring boring... ate Maurice."

[@gordonfreeman5261]

"By the end of Day 1, all the biscuits were gone" - being British, that for me was the most horrific part.

[@alistairgladstone5334]

excellent.

[@steveperreira5850]

You are merciful to the Froggies. You could have been cruel with humor.

[@draculastraphouse7863]

British people are literally made up of 80% tea and 20% biscuit so I understand

[@gordonfreeman5261]

@@draculastraphouse7863 literally just finished a cup.

[@matthewwilson5019]

@@draculastraphouse7863 i love tea, and i dont like coffee, and im from the usa lol

[@StudlySoldier]

Its wild that classic art needs to be censored to be displayed on what is effectively the only video streaming platform. I miss the old internet

[@notablynova]

Censorship of art is proof that human rights are gone

[@QB_L]

Agreed! Art, especially the classics, should never be censored!

[@NickMeisher]

It's offensive to 'modern audience' who are still figuring out what gender they are at 25.

[@IreneWY]

​@@NickMeisherno, it's offensive to some of the ridiculously conservative advertisers on KZbin. That's all anyone cares about, ad revenue

[@Whyusemyname]

Great point. KZbin is Coke but where’s Pepsi?

[@suryaselvakumar5385]

Incompetence is an understatement for that captain.

[@skylance6001]

Asking a passenger to spot the cove is the equivalent of asking a passenger to be a radio operator

[@sharonmontano4924]

Like the “mission specialists “ of Stockton Rush😂😂

[@bobthecomputerguy]

Or asking your kids to fly a commercial airliner (Aeroflot Flight 593).

[@constitutionalli7522]

Or demanding your cat improve your mental health #therapygate

[@scottbubb2946]

Or, like demanding someone who doesn't know how to do a thing, do that thing. Sorry, I'm not good at similes.

[@JarthenGreenmeadow]

@@scottbubb2946 Like demanding that Scottbubb2946 do similes

[@jeff4son]

I saw this painting at The Louvre in 2009. It’s striking. You can’t walk past it. Thank you for reminding me of it and telling the story.

[@tuvoca825]

I call the painting... Crash Diet

[@Tsugumomomo]

Géricault himself was kind of a madlad to be honest. Apparently he was so dedicated to his craft that during the process of making this painting, he took pieces of dead bodies from the morgue and let them soak in his bathtube just so I could get the tint of decomposing skin right

[@sharonmontano4924]

Sounds a tiny bit apocryphal

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Have you ever worked your ass off mixing paint and studying medical books to get the facts straight so you think you're using just a measure of artistic license for not having been there... ONLY to have one after another after another "let you know that you got the shade wrong" or "advise you that's not quite how it looks for real"... I don't blame him or think he was anything but frustrated. If you want to know what humans look like decomposing in the sea, it makes sense to put some decomposing human in water and have a look for yourself. ;o)

[@samuellivingston5255]

Well him doing that study himself was effective to say the least. Seeing the difference of the skin from the living and the dead in this painting is one of the main aspects of the painting that make it horrifying and he did an amazing job at showing what a dead body looks like when it’s left out at sea for a few or more days

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

​@@gnarthdarkanen7464(Ahem! Salt water, not bathwater! LOL!)

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

@@RogerLewis-ey2tt OH yeah... nobody invented salt until those idiots flooded Utah and part of Nevada with it in the 1800's... right. ;o)

[@ankylosaruswrecks3189]

It's important to note that the contingent of boats were not simply trying to make it to shore, but were aiming to sail all the way to Saint-Louis. Landing at an unknown spot on the coast of Africa was seen as barely more survivable than being lost at sea. This is why there was a need for a raft in the first place instead of just using the launches they had to ferry people to shore, then sending the best boat for help. It was a complete and utter lack of any leadership whatsoever.

[@tysonelite9561]

Did the longboats make it to shore?

[@ankylosaruswrecks3189]

@tysonelite9561 Yes, although not together. The boat with the governor made it all the way to Saint-Louis. The rest of the boats got separated. But they all did get to shore and were rescued by native tribes people or search parties. They also suffered some losses due to lack of provisions and exposure.

[@oddmott7653]

Ah yes, i remember this painting from Art History back in college. The teacher didn't go into quite as much detail, but definitely dedicated a few minutes to explaining the harrowing situation depicted by the raft. Great painting, great artist, but an unfortunate & horrifying situation it depicts.

[@richardmcquade9832]

Interesting that the captain refused to throw the cannons overboard yet abandoned ship to get onto a worthless raft so that any pirates or other nations' ships could salvage the cannons for themselves.

[@cartooncritique6625]

@drafteethewhitetrhfggot7227 ...and here I thought the Captain was supposed to go down with the ship.

[@jstray7582]

That was the dumbest thing to me. So you refuse to make it lighter by losing the cannons yet...you decide to strip the same boat to make a raft? Just dumb.

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

Utter incompetence.

[@Playa001]

Literally idiotic, could’ve kept his crew alive a little longer to get to some sort of land or help

[@jaylong4705]

The Biden plan

[@ScionStorm1]

>Refuses to leave the ship defenseless in order for it to escape >Is forced to abandon ship and make a defenseless raft to escape

[@morganevans1772]

Moral of the story: using your brain to avoid danger at sea probaby shouldn't be a hangable offense 💀

[@DiamondCake2]

Well, they are French.

[@TyCook-s1c]

My ancestor from the Scottish Highlands via Dublin came to the US in 1755 where he founded a port city in Virginia. It blows my mind trying to imagine how brave he must've been and it makes me so proud. I'm so blessed to know my families history.

[@tinman2420]

Nice one! I worked on ships for 10 years, and there is no desert in the world that is harsher than the sea. you’re either dehydrated or fish food if anything goes wrong- and so much can go wrong. Loved my time out there, but glad it’s over!

[@josefbecher4790]

Yeah its gotta be a psychological mind fuc$ to be surrounded by infinite water that you cant drink.. at least in the desert its pretty much assumed water is not in your plans lol..

[@deborahraven-lindley3309]

At 5:31 there is an albatross flying over the seaman who will drown. These birds, in the lore of sailors, are usually seen as good omens, but are also believed to be the embodiment of souls of departed sailors. It is as if the bird is there both signaling the inevitable and perhaps also providing reassurance. This artwork is intensely poignant and heartbreaking.

[@saranshgautam6551]

10:30 The captain refused to throw the 14 cannons overboard, but was okay with dismantling the ship to make a life raft? Either facts have become distorted with time or there was some ridiculous decision making.

[@horrourstories]

Cannons were expensive, and Captains had a strange attachment to them. Losing your cannons was just not done.

[@iridiumcaptain]

Little of column A, little of column B

[@Cookieboy70]

Ridiculous decision making definitely accounts for a lot of unfortunate events in human history.

[@chrisb3k1]

So glad to see someone cover this! I read the book a few years ago...and found it a fascinating tale! Highly recommend everyone read it.

[@xraphaelxx]

Yes! 'Raft of the Medusa'. Brilliant read!

[@angelofmusic1992]

I love paintings or photos with creepy stories behind them and this is definitely one of the most unique ones I've heard.

[@JayWalkerOnline]

Right? I'd love a series of paintings with eerie stories.

[@matthewmoore51]

Thank you for doing this. This was SUPER interesting. I watch a lot of content, and this was the first time I had heard about this story. Really enjoyed it.

[@Clint52279]

5 days and they went to cannibalism... wow. There are stories I've heard of survivors going weeks of starvation before turning to that. Was it the lack of proper leadership that propelled them to turn on one another so quickly?

[@mcgoo721]

They were french. Setting aside time for meals is quite important to their culture.

[@omarb7164]

Waiting as long as possible would be the dumber move, actually. Most people died the first few days. Just like meat, humans decay, so unless you eat the bodies soon after death they’re spoiled. Waiting a few weeks with exponentially fewer people alive, and those people have starved all their fat away, then cannibalism won’t do you much good and you’d have eaten humans in vain. Eat the dozens of well-fed people who die the first few days, then you’re built up fat deposits that let you survive longer.

[@jessfrisk3585]

i think part of it can be chalked up to a different time. the “custom of the sea” was a taboo to talk about, but accepted part of being a sailor.

[@cwired9407]

Seriously, that's like a normal fast for most…

[@itsmelive]

I think they were also deranged and delusional at that point.

[@jeremywhite5762]

Loved the story as well as the art thanks again Sean I really appreciate your work and time you've put into this and as always fantastic work man

[@selenasanchez4244]

The irony of the raft survivors praying for wind for the sail and then getting it in excess each night is crazy. I find it incomprehensible that the soldiers and the officers fought until death in most instances instead of coming together at this crucial time. 😮 😢

[@kataisa3]

Incompetent, weak leadership trickles down into a chaotic ship.

[@prettypuff1]

This painting is in the louvre. I heard a brief version of the story but never this much detail. Great job

[@traciw.6044]

Story started with a rich man giving his buddy a position he was unqualified. Too many deaths and suffering in history began like that, even today. Especially today.

[@LastAvailableAlias]

9:40 Keeping the cannons could've been helped them off the reef. One method is to put the cannons onto small boats and row them out with heavy lines tied to the cannons. You drop the cannons like anchors then you use the ship's capstans as a winch to pull the boat off the reef.

[@rheverend]

This is like watching a prequel to a movie where everyone dies. You know something horrible is coming but u find yourself rooting for the doomed ppl anyway

[@andrewknaff9220]

As a Pogues fan, I sought out this painting when I visited the Louvre. Great to hear the story behind it!

[@angelaholsapple8830]

Being a pouges fan is the only reason Im watching this video

[@euanrenesto5235]

There’s a brilliant song by British folk punk band the Levellers called Raft of the Medusa which describes these events, well worth a listen

[@nemo6686]

If I was on a raft in a storm and a big red arrow appeared next to me, I'd be pretty freaked-out myself!! Funny how many of these historical events seem to be accompanied by a big red arrow, circle or both. Someone should study it.

[@sandyman_pov]

I read Jonathan Miles, The Wreak of The Medusa maybe 20 years ago and had forgotten all about it until seeing your video. Thank you for the video and the book is an excellent account for anyone wishing to delve deeper into the horrifying events surrounding this wreak.

[@andreweden9405]

You should do a video on the disaster of the American whaler the Essex which happened about 4 or 5 years after this incident. It was either in 1820, '21, or thereabouts. It's the story that would later inspire Herman Melville to write Moby Dick!

[@Scipio_Americanus]

No I'm pretty sure Moby Dick was inspired by the movie Jaws by Spielberg. 🙄

[@HarleyLuna31]

I remember the scandal back in the early 2000s when a white sperm whale was spotted in south america

[@genghis_connie]

This was absolutely fascinating. Obviously horrific and probably a layer cake of phobias for many. Thank you for such detail, and the perfect tone to be informative and invested without being dramatic.

[@Spills51]

MORE OF THIS MAN !!!! Absolutely fantastic tale and had me completely entrhalled the entire time! I know its not easy, but wwhen you get these stories that have been rarely, if ever told on KZbin its a real treat. Most of us i imagine who watch your channel also watch similar and while appreciated, its a bit of a letdown when you begin to realizze you have already heard this on another channel in this genre. With so many tales of human history....there are endless tragic and amazing stories out there that are true and just waiting for someone to dig up...For me at least...this was one of them. FANTASTIC JOB!@@111

[@nancyjones6780]

Great story! I love the historical facts and the artists rendering! Cool idea!❤

[@Unlesslight]

It's awesome to hear the full story of one of my favourite paintings... If you ever have the chance to see it (at the Louvre museum), please do while you can, the painting is bond to go black due to the pigment used (you actually see it on some close up in this video) Also, would it be possible to also have some of the units in the international system ? or at least the metric for distance 🙇

[@HammerStudioGames]

Just learn our archaic measurements, they're fun

[@Unlesslight]

@@HammerStudioGames can't wait to learn how to measure in bananas 😂

[@polinatalmeltzer450]

I know all this, because I read a lot about this, but I wanted so much to hear you speak about it on your channel! Thank you very much!! ❤

[@miket6094]

I can not imagine the horror of being on a makeshift raft in the ocean and there is basically a civil war taking place on that tiny raft. The strong overtaking the weak.

[@suivezlemir]

just popping by, your French pronunciation is excellent :) (also speedrunning through your videos, I've almost watched (/listened to) all of them in 3 days, loving the content.)

[@CruelSeason]

Almost back to back Scary Interesting? We getting lucky today 💰

[@tombingus3984]

Don't they come out at 8 PST every Sunday?

[@andrewdavies4604]

There are some truly wild stories of survival, or not, at Sea, and so very many of them involve someone thinking they know what they are doing, when they don't. What happened to the people who rowed off in the life boats? Did they ever make it too shore?

[@grumpykitten4890]

This truly was a series of unfortunate events.

[@BoulderLegend]

It's so interesting to me that the alternative to an execution is a 3 year sentence. I mean crazy things happen, even today, I'm just impressed. Was the average expectancy that low or something?

[@littlebear274]

Once you reach about five years old life expectancy has actually never been particularly low, most historical mortality happens in the first year of life. What was different was the conditions in a lot of prisons. Hard labour was often basically just a slower execution. I'm not sure if this was the same for all nobility, though certainly nobility that had fallen out of favour could be treated pretty badly.

[@jamesdreads7828]

Loved this one, what an interesting story and one i've not heard on 'disaster story' channels before. Good job Sean, as ever.

[@jonathannofire787]

If someone made a movie about this event in history it'd be one of the most dramatic and spine chilling movies ever😮

[@KhoiruunisaRF]

After what they did to their fellow crewmates, even if they survived what did they become? Truly horrible.

[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

yes, i think it would have been better to die than to live by killing others.

[@HarleyLuna31]

Probably all the tensions arose due to the captain stupidity

[@Alex-cw3rz]

One other element of Géricault's painting is the black sailor in the centre. This was for two reasons, during the Napoleonic wars many foreign sailors were employed on royal navy and french ships, a significant number were black, and therefore this was a nod to their service. In addition, the secondary reason was also a political message of anti-slavery.

[@ganjalfcreamcorn8438]

these ocean stories are the most scary to me. only thing that might be worst is drowning in a cave. very scary.

[@willcruikshank7972]

I love how removing cannons were out of the question for the captain so it wasn’t defenseless, but stripping the ship for parts was totally fine

[@Just-Jess]

This was a great story, and the art was beautiful!

[@sarakralj1350]

I love this video idea. Its out of the box from usual but at the same time perfectly fits this channel. I was very pleasently surprised when I saw it, havent expected such a creative idea.

[@billywatts4689]

I like your picture a/s/l?

[@prudencepineapple9448]

Reminds me of the Batavia Shipwreck in the Abrolhos Islands 65 kilometres off the Western Australian coast in 1629. It was absolute barbarism and brutality that many aren't aware of.

[@danem2215]

The breakdown of humanity is horrific beyond belief. The sea is all too well versed in that

[@TonyHammitt]

There seems to have been quite a lot of artwork to use for this episode, it must have been quite a scandal

[@rougeneon1997]

Fascinating, and terrifying. I had never heard this tale prior!

[@haroldthaf]

Referring to them as the different seas is very close to a coping mechanism, there's around 1,450,000,000,000,000,000 short tons of water wildly sloshing around. It's all one massive body of water, deadly and unpredictable.

[@Scipio_Americanus]

Ok

[@JosetteJellison]

"The guests are stood in silence They stare and drink their wine On the wall the canvas hangs Frozen there in time They marvel at the beauty The horror and despair At the wake of the Medusa No one shed a tear Sit my friends and listen Put your glasses down Sit my friends and listen To the voices of the drowned In the moonlight's ghostly glow I waken in a dream Once more upon that raft I stand Upon a raging sea In my ears the moans and screams Of the dying ring Somewhere in the darkness The siren softly sings Out there in the waves she stands And smiling there she calls As the lightning cracks the sky The wind begins to howl The architects of our doom Around their tables sit And in their thrones of power Condemn those they've cast adrift Echoes down the city street Their harpies laughter rings Waiting for the curtain call Oblivious in the wings The casket is empty Abandon ye all hope They ran off with the money And left us with the rope" -'The Wake of the Medusa', the Pogues

[@Utriedit215]

Thank you

[@seamusosneakers1773]

I love this story! Thank you for covering it, most channels never heard of it

[@doxi101]

Another, similar story you might wanna cover is the maiden voyage of the Batavia. A ship of the dutch east india company whose trip lead to a shipwreck, civil war among the crew and general crimes against humanity

[@dr.adam_bright2601]

“The sea is selective; slow at recognition of effort and aptitude, but fast in sinking the unfit” -Felix Riesenberg

[@saranshgautam6551]

A new Scary Interesting Upload? Time to drop all of my life responsibilities and zone out for the next 22 minutes! :D

[@Brey.cheeze]

Cause same… 😅

[@Scipio_Americanus]

🙄

[@robbmorris]

A full story covering the three men found alive back at The Meduse shipwreck would be super cool!

[@bertbaker7067]

Holy cow, what a story. Thanks for sharing

[@bansidheaz]

Great choice of a topic - thanks for covering this! The song The Wake of the Medusa by The Pogues (1990) is about both this incident and Géricault's painting and is one of my favorite songs by that group.

[@megansimplystitch]

I'm binge watching your videos while sick in bed. Great narration, script, impressive visuals, etc. Apt name. Scary & Interesting, indeed. Sir. Thank you for so much compelling content.

[@DaKdawg]

Hope you have a swift recovery, in the meantime enjoy your fix of Scary interesting.

[@fjlsfljsalfkjasdflka]

So, wait. The captain didn't want to leave the ship defenseless and that's why he decided not to toss off the cannons, but agreed to the raft idea? Which would leave them even more defenseless? The guy was a damned idiot.

[@poisonpotato1]

Captain: "i refuse to remove the guns and leave the ship defenseless" *lets crew dismantle the rest of ship and take defensless small lifeboats

[@joeguzman3558]

What a great idea. Instead of getting rid of the cannons, they take the wood from the ship lol

[@justinakers3196]

Excellent story I've never heard before. Well done

[@Heavyisthecrown]

The men that gave up their spots for others 😢 wow. Imagine making the call… so brave and heroic

[@brieframe6746]

I loved the historical focus on this one! I'd be interested in an art-inspired series of stories.

[@hannahp1108]

I learned about the painting in art history class but we didn't learn this much detail about the event. Absolutely horrifying

[@AmigoRoberto]

This was incredibly interesting. Awesome concept too.

[@pr0jectSkyneT]

I saw this painting when i visited the Louvre a couple of years back. It absolutely fascinated me.

[@Warchiefdestro]

Another gnarly story mate. Podcast has been lit too. Upload more!! 😊

[@Noface603]

I can’t think of a better example of “A person is smart, but people are stupid”

[@Think_About_It_7]

Fascinating history. Thank you!

[@mojojojo560]

You should make marathon videos of your old uploads with less ads so we can fall asleep to your stuff, your voice and atmosphere is my sleep heroine.

[@nothingmuch8865]

Shackleton would've saved each and every soul!

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

Love Shackleton!

[@bluesteel8376]

And this is why you hire/promote people based on skill, not family name or connections.

[@miapdx503]

The oceans and seas have claimed many lives. There are many heartbreaking stories of shipwrecks, and this is one of the worst. 😢

[@wattsnottaken1]

Lightening the load of the ship reminds me of the 2005 king Kong scene “everything that’s not bolted down goes overboard!”

[@ThinkLikeAHorse.]

Wow, this definitely needs to be a movie.

[@miapdx503]

Yes!

[@MrMosanu]

The artwork you're using for the imagery is impressive. Please consider posting the authors in the description below the video.

[@BLACNWYTE]

Thanks for this story I’ve seen the painting but not heard the story and considering I’m English I’m not sure why this isn’t better taught in schools rather than constantly hearing about Anderson shelters and Tudor buildings instead. PS the podcast has been dope! I love listening to it on the way to work and can’t wait for the next episode.

[@stevenschnepp576]

The purpose of primary and secondary historical education isn't to go in-depth in every subject, but rather to provide you the foundation and tools to go deeper as you would.

[@ArchangelSteve]

Also we have literally thousands of years of history to cover in three to five years of schooling, there's not really much time to devote to French history as well.

[@kimberleysmith818]

Because Anderson shelters and Tudor buildings are also important.

[@blasphemertheseventh]

I have a trip planned for Paris in 2025 and this painting is on the top of my list to see in the Louvre.

[@tommyb261]

Loved this one, it was a nice change up!

[@Pikkiwoki]

I love your channel so much. Probably my favorite. I never watch horrible fates but everything else is just perfect.

[@MyNameHere101]

3:34 *clap clap clap*

[@deerwithout]

Just realised that TWD Daryl Dixon has this painting in the intro sequence - very cool knowing the background of the painting and being able to draw parallels to the show. Thanks, Sean!

[@pbyguy7059]

If you like this episode or this painting then I can't recommend the book A History of the World in 10 1/2 chapters by Julian Barnes enough. Chapter 5 is a long discourse about this story and the painting and some of the rest of the book as well. Just read it!

[@stevecaldwell8558]

Yes!

[@TheKatyPB]

Best part of my Sunday! Thanks!

[@glennwidelko]

Great storytelling 🙏

[@tedthesailor172]

I've never heard of this tragedy. Which surprises me as historically we Brits rather enjoy French misfortune...

[@giannidcenzo]

....we Yanks as well

[@satyne1]

I watch and enjoy most of your content, but I think this is my favourite! I hope you do similar stories in the future. It was gripping and horrifying and tragic all at the same time. Well done.

[@overcastfriday81]

When you are stranded 31 miles from the coast and your boat starts drifting away from the coast, you don't have much choice but to try to swim to shore.

[@flash_flood_area]

Such a great painting! Never heard the full story. Thanks!