The Terrifying Truth About How Bad The Drake Passage Really Is

The Drake Passage has swallowed more than 800 ships and claimed upward of 20,000 lives. It is the most violent body of water on earth — a 600-mile wide collision zone where the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans converge into a single uninterrupted current carrying the equivalent of 5,000 Amazon Rivers every second. Modern ships with ice-class hulls and satellite navigation still get their windows shattered and their engines knocked out. This is the full story of why.

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Cruise Ship Hit By Monster Wave Near Antarctica

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How Sailors Sleep on Cargo Ships on the Coldest Nights

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Drake Passage: World's DEADLIEST Stretch of Water

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The Soviet Union’s Largest Submarine... What the CIA Found Inside the Typhoon Was Terrifying

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Why Modern Navigation STILL Hasn’t Solved the Drake Passage Problem

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CAPE HORN | The Most Feared Sea Passage on Earth | 4K Documentary

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The Worst Place on Earth to Be Stranded | Texas Tower 4

Why The Drake Passage Is Earth's Deadliest Waters
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Why The Drake Passage Is Earth's Deadliest Waters

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The Incredible Engineering of the Galleon

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Why Even Modern Ships Fear the Drake Passage

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The Flying Dutchman - Was Real. Here's What Actually Happened.

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The Sea of Okhotsk: The Most Dangerous Sea You've Never Heard Of

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Why So Many Ships Vanish Without a Mayday on the Great Lakes? | Fall Asleep To

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Drake Passage: The Dangerous Gateway to Antarctica

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DRAKE PASSAGE: Inside the Ocean Where Waves Swallow Ships

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Trapped in the Drake Passage Storm | Rogue Wave Hits MS Silver Explorer

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Why the Shallowest Great Lake is Actually the Deadliest? | Fall Asleep To

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Life on a Bismarck was Worse than Hell

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The Terrifying Reality of Generation Ships

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Back from the Dead - The Blythe Star Disaster

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ANTARCTICA: How a Few Thousand People Survive the Coldest Place on Earth | 4K Documentary

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This American Couple Made a Fatal Mistake While Sailing Around the World — With Tragic Consequences

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The Kaz II: The Engine Was Running, the Laptop Was Open, and Three Men Were Gone

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13 Most Isolated Places on EARTH You Never Heard Of

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Lake Superior Is Hiding Something Nobody Talks About

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Cruise Ship vs Storm – The Terrifying Reality Inside

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The Most Infamous Cruise Ship Disasters

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How Do Sailors Sleep in a Storm When the Ship Heels Over?

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Why the North Sea Is One of the World’s Deadliest Waters

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The ONLY Predator That Made Megalodon Tremble in Fear