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

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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[@thetraveler_en]

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[@ricardoprovan5159]

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

[@geoffkryten]

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

[@browburk]

Yes. 😂 Absurd.

[@daniellozano7821]

Call out the BS

[@ElSantoLuchador]

Ya, that's the wind speed of a category 4 hurricane.

[@williamrachaner4359]

I agree 95 mph is beyond adsurd,, Time for a retraction.

[@sayittomyfaceidareyou8629]

​@@ElSantoLuchadorno that is a category 2 hurricane

[@ricardoprovan5159]

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....

[@kristinarassidaki4235]

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!

[@Dantanalicious]

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!

[@rainfinger]

Great video!

[@pattydemnicki8711]

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.

[@user-ww3ey6yu8u]

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

[@pierobarbato7748]

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"

[@FernRoses]

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

[@lucypretorius972]

Awesome

[@benjaminrneal]

I am here because of The Wager by David Grann.

[@saulstar5203]

Very well done, congrats ♡

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[@donaldhudson2235]

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 .

[@Goose00123]

This was Bonita 😊

[@bobstuart2638]

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

[@raymondluk4620]

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

[@raysmith1028]

Impressive

[@Vagabondo-fs6qu]

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.

[@selva1990mca]

good content

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[@jaywinters2483]

US Navy declared Drake Passage the most dangerous of all world's bodies of waters.

[@carmen2689]

Se llama Mar de Hoces, descubierto por España 1526 en la segunda expedición de Elcano, en la San Lesmes, el Capitán era Francisco de Hoces, y Todo Sigue Bajo Soberanía Española De Polo Norte a Polo Sur y al Oeste Del Meridiano Español 28, La Antártida también Fue Descubierta por España, Grabiel de Castilla año 1603 Es Del IMPERIO ESPAÑOL

[@erinpadfield5207]

You forgot that the Artic ocean also meets with the Pacific and Atlantic

[@taemorrow1]

Talk about earning a subscriber!

[@luizdamatta2532]

Very interesting, but is pretty annoying to stop to translate the measurements, to meters, celsius and other normal units used outside the USA. Should I understand that this was created for “US audiences only”? Nice if you could mention international measurements also.

[@RediskaRKS]

1st passage named in honor of rapper. wow

[@karenwalters7131]

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

[@ElSantoLuchador]

The graveyard of the Pacific. 2,000 ships. And the bar is a brutal stretch of water. Not for the faint of heart.

[@karenwalters7131]

@@ElSantoLuchador When I was thirteen I took our boat out and within seconds it was black and nasty and I needed the throttle completely open to get back, and still almost got dunked

[@howardkip99]

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.

[@thetraveler_en]

Amazing story! Thank you for sharing!

[@notaperson9831]

I love sea stories. The ocean calls to me. I fucked up my life early on and as a 30 year old woman with a criminal record, I don’t think any ship would have me but im still looking. My father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all seamen. It’s the only place I’ve ever felt at home.

[@N-M362]

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

[@thetraveler_en]

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[@williamwaits]

Never heard that about earring, I always heard it was to pay for your funeral

[@Heather-vp7wn]

Pirates wore gold ear rings in case they died at sea or in a foreign land and the gold would pay for him to be buried

[@felipaonunezdominguez8430]

1:59 Why to represent the current native peoples of Patagonia do you place images of South Africans and Mexicans!!!??? The first image of the group of people is by photographer Harry M. Troter taken in Cape Town (South Africa) at Christmas 2000, the second image of the woman and the baby in her arms has a source in a Mexican electronic newspaper that deals the issue of discrimination in Yucatan - Mexico.

[@smartiboo]

Antartica?

[@robvangessel3766]

If the Maluku Islands were the point of interest here, I don't understand why those European explorers didn't take the route crossing Africa's Cape of Good Hope instead of Cape Horn. The map shows not only a shorter route but a safer one.

[@rahowherox1177]

Tis the way the wind blows. Westerlys in the southern Ocean as a rule

[@aldolahoz486]

Esa ruta era controlada por los portugueses

[@musashidanmcgrath]

Because the Spanish and Portuguese couldn't cross into each other's territories.

[@stanleybest8833]

Look at the price the Panama Canal charges to small boats.

[@Rob-yv9og]

This 'video' is just a robotic AI entity saying random things.

[@gogotraveler]

I was there in December 23. We had a flat calm sea, no wind and about 50 degrees. I went horse back riding on the Beagle Channel. The city there Ushuaia is fairly busy. The weather doesn't get above 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The houses tend towards contemporary. Not really well constructed and pretty much no landscaping

[@fogsmart]

Then there are folk who sea kayak around there…

[@bujfvjg7222]

No true mountaineer looks to Everest as their apex mountain, K2, NP, The Ogre yes.

[@victorfreeman5413]

Hidden lands terra not tierra del fuego, terra lacach and terra galeca visible in this video south of cape horn not on todays maps

[@yunassaxer7119]

[@brinleyandCamo]

What the fu-

[@brinleyandCamo]

🐐🐐🐐

[@SanjeevGhanekar21]

The Narrator sounds familiar,

[@thetraveler_en]

Hello! He is a famous voice-over artist.

[@carmen2689]

Los británicos, la única relación que tienen con Ésa Zona Del IMPERIO ESPAÑOL,es desde 1833 , cuando invadieron las islas Malvinas, que los españoles ya habían arrestado dos veces a los británicos en Las islas Españolas De las Malvinas,

[@waywardgeologist2520]

Just build a dam between South America and Antarctica. This would kill the current and warm Antarctica.

[@stevebarlow3154]

We need Antartica to stay cold for there to be stable weather elsewhere. Apart from which it would be the largest civil engineering project ever undertaken in history, bankrupt any country that financed such a project and be almost impossible to achieve.

[@josephinebennington7247]

Good footage, good content, but I cannot stand being driven by a hard-driving, constantly talking, hard-voiced, commentator.

[@howardkip99]

Actually the average windspeed is not even close to 95 miles per hour, that is ridiculous, I personally have rounded the Horn twice and the most we saw the first time was a squall which reached 50 knots for a short time then moderated to 30-40knts, the second time it was serious heavy weather returning from Antarctica and even then we would have been only getting 40 -45 knots and higher in the gusts, The average wind speed is the highest in the world but actually it's for gale force strength winds not hurricane force and only 30 per cent of the time during winter months , I think Gale force is around 35 knots, well under half what this video claims and certainly not 100 per cent of the time. In the summertime season when most boats go round the average wind speeds are much less with about a 5 per cent chance of gale force winds.

[@thetraveler_en]

Thank you for your very interesting story! When we were making this video, we used official data and always double-checked the information we shared in our videos. However, there is always a possibility that official data might be incorrect or inaccurate.

[@williamrachaner4359]

Agree,,,these guys need to have some feel for reality and not just copy and paste others fact.. We used to refer to it as "Use your sniffer as needed"

[@JJ-si4qh]

"Average speed of 91 mph". Same video "maximum speed of 9"

[@hewitc]

winds = 91 mph water current = 9

[@stevebarlow3154]

@@hewitc Water speeds should be calculated in knots. One knot is one nautical mile per hour. One nautical mile is calculated as 1,852 metres or approximately 1.15078 statute miles. It is derived from one minute or one sixtieth of a degree of latitude. Wind speeds are also calculated in knots for mariners and airmen.

[@RichardTheGreat210]

Europeans out here just discovering everything huh? Even when its already habited

[@dalecooper9942]

Ushuaia = city whose name is an Internet Laugh ... Ushuaia Ushuaia Ushuaia

[@benwilliams3469]

Pandora US stole your content and now it’s more highly recommended, lame

[@jimreganpaul1358]

"Below 50, there is no God"??? The Holy Bible says the otherwise.. be on ur limits with scripting..

[@2HellWUtube]

Ah yes, the feet, farenheit, miles... No thanks.

[@jasondavis4385]

It is said that an albatross is the reincarnation of a sailor who drowned at sea. -old sailor's superstition...