Ep. 455: The Wager with David Grann
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Uncharted Realms of Cape Horn
The ships were desperate to stay together because if one ship, the ships got separated, there'd be no one to save them. They didn't have any detailed charts for this area and had to rely on what was known as dead reckoning. And so when the wager, it gets around the horn, it's coming up the Chilean side of Patagonia. The rudder shatters, an anchor which weighed two tons, falls and plunges through the hull,. Then another huge wave comes and it sweeps the 123 foot wooden vessel off the rocks. So suddenly the ship, their home is careening through this mindful rocks, but they have no rudder just stare by with water pouring through
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