500 Years Later: Reflecting on Magellan's Epic Voyage

[@ΓιαννηςΠαπανικολαου-υ8ο]

Good morning Captain and my regards. Another very good job on your part. I wish other colleagues of yours made such nice short and very encyclopedic videos. In this way, you will make a lot of people love the seaman's profession.!!!!! May God bless you and may you have good seas!!!!!! I hope you will soon set sail again. Many greetings from beautiful Thessaloniki. Please accept my respects!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@S.Kostan_1970]

Good morning,my dear friend! Many thanks for your nice feedback, very much appreciated!

[@scottgray493]

Unbelievable drive and nerves. I just saw this, having just returned home from the Chicago Field Museum that paid tribute to Magellans explorations. Thanks for this.

[@S.Kostan_1970]

Many thanks for your feedback!

[@markmark2080]

I share your feelings/respect for the seamen of the past who ventured into that great unknown. Some of the accounts recorded in "Hakluyt's Voyages" relate dangers, hardships and horrors beyond anything fictional authors and screenwriters could possibly imagine. The YT video "The Last cape Horners" covers the end of the sailing age in that most southern route, but still only scratches the surface of what the 16th Century sailor endured. I appreciate the sentiments you shared along with the videos of the straits... Best wishes again from Colorado...Oh, and if I could talk to ANY person from the past, I think Noah would be the man...

[@S.Kostan_1970]

Agree, Noah is good choice to talk to! I have not yet saw the YT video you mentioned, will see soonest possible, thank you for recommendation!

[@chrisfitzmaurice7484]

Skipper, have you traversed the Suez canal? I heard from someone that there's a unique situation there and that the pilots have 100% control of the ship - unlike other places where the captain still has ultimate authority. Do you know if that's true?

[@S.Kostan_1970]

Yes, I have passed Suez Canal many times. Pilot is just the Captain's advisor there, as usually. There is only one place in the world where Pilot takes the con over the ship - Panama Canal locks. Because there vessel is moved through the locks being towed by a small electric locomotives with her main engine shut down. Anywhere else where ships use their main engine and steering gear Pilot is just advisor

[@chrisfitzmaurice7484]

So, the captain of the Evergiven was made the fall guy for the ship's grounding in the Suez Canal? When you read about it, the pilots were the ones who actually messed up. I guess that was the poor guy's last day as a captain then.

[@S.Kostan_1970]

@@chrisfitzmaurice7484 As far as I understood the situation there was the sudden wind gust which made the vessel not reacted to the rudder properly for some time. Also such a vessels have the huge profile affected by wind and I guess the local Pilots are not very experienced with such a big vessels. Anyway the captain is responsible for the grounding (provided that all equipment and gear were fully operationa) In case if there was melfunction of main engine or steering gear Capptain had no possibility to operate the vessel properly. I hadn't read the full investigation report yet,will check all the detailes.

[@chrisfitzmaurice7484]

Hope all is going alright in your world, skipper.Thanks for another great video. Our forefathers had testosterone by the bucket, didn't they? Tierra del Fuego looks forbidding even from the bridge of modern ships! Stay well.

[@S.Kostan_1970]

Thank you very much,my dear friend! My situation is still far from positive, but try to keep some optimism;) Wishing you the best!

[@chrisfitzmaurice7484]

@@S.Kostan_1970 Your video got me thinking about Magellan's great voyage, so I dove into it more deeply. So much fascinating happened stuff there you don't know where to begin. Those men were made of iron! Of the 240 or so who departed Spain, the great majority never made it back.

[@S.Kostan_1970]

@@chrisfitzmaurice7484 Yes, I also started learning those stories more deeply. When you get older, such stories makes you stronger;)

[@sophiasbear69]

SLAVA UKRAINI 1!! from las vegas USA

[@S.Kostan_1970]

Thank you,my friend!