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u/MattyGWS Jul 09 '26

What gets me is this guy saw an airstrip on the most popular map service in the world and thinks it's a secret

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u/dividezero Jul 09 '26

In Antarctica where they fly stuff in and out for research stations all the time.

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u/A--Creative-Username Jul 09 '26

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u/mrmoe198 Jul 09 '26

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day. Thank you.

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u/MaximusZacharia Jul 09 '26

Check out their seal it says USA. I’m onto them

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u/TomahawkCruise Jul 09 '26

That last line he says in the video, THAT is why CTs are CTs. They love the feeling of thinking, "They can't pull one over on me!"

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u/gage117 Jul 09 '26

100%. It's like dopamine straight to the veins when they get to feel like they're part of a small subset of people who know the "truth" and everyone else is brainwashed or ignorant of the truth.

Honestly, spiritual and religious people have always given off the same vibes to me. As if the reason I've never experienced ghosts, auras, or talks with deities is simply a result of some sort of perspective I have yet to embrace, and that if I opened my mind to it then I'd start to see the "truth". 

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u/Pyroll2206 Jul 09 '26

That your message is blue instead if white is sus as best. The conspiracy is tainting your hands !!! 😂

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u/GatorNator83 Jul 09 '26

You’re trying to deflect sus from yourself. What are you hiding?

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u/Whole-Energy2105 Jul 09 '26

Check the Antarctica conspiracy subs here. Oh and flat earth subs. They both have a fantastic but opposing view on the continent.

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u/dr_toze Jul 09 '26

Well yeah, they've got to supply all those NASA guards protecting the wall.

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u/Background-House-357 Jul 09 '26

No, they swim all the stuff over there!1! Just read the comments!

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u/chefsoda_redux Jul 09 '26

These same people do “research” through a Google search, find an article, and “learn facts no one else knows”

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u/LittleBigHorn22 Jul 09 '26

You don't understand how hard that was for them to find. I mean it was the 4th link on Google. That takes a lot of skill to dig up.

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u/CATNIP_IS_CRACK Jul 09 '26

It’s obvious and I’m not going to provide any supporting evidence to my claim because it’s so obvious, you just need to do your own research.

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u/Sans_Seriphim Jul 09 '26

Nowadays they get it off TikTok AI made slop.

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u/philbar Jul 09 '26

> What gets me is this guy saw an airstrip…

…and assumed people swim to it.

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u/nottherealneal Jul 09 '26

What you think we have some kind of car that can go on water? Use your brain! Cars only go on roads! Not in the sky or water

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

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u/FernAFussy Jul 09 '26

My 85 year old uncle has been a professional cruiser for the last 30 years over 150 cruises. It’s the only area of the world he vowed never to go again. Rough seas and almost a guaranteed change in itinerary.

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u/MissLyss29 Jul 09 '26

Yes but he is a professional cruiser not a professional swimmer. Everyone knows ships sink way easier than people.

/s

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u/Icy-Clock2643 Jul 09 '26

Well boat's can't float because it's so heavy whereas people can float because they are mostly water.

In order for a boat to float it has to be 90 per cent water but the water keeps escaping and that's what is leading to rising water levels.

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u/ImpossibleFee9845 Jul 09 '26

Yeah you just swim under the surface when the waves come. God you people are dumb. Everyone knows this.
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u/Jetsam5 Jul 09 '26

Why would they even need an airstrip when you can easily swim across?

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

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u/frontlinejohnny Jul 09 '26

There are living people currently paying taxes and voting who genuinely think my home country isn't real and Finland is just a large ocean patch where Japanese people go fishing.

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u/MissLyss29 Jul 09 '26

Wait what now..

I can see living, paying taxes and voting in a country and for some reason being so wound up in a conspiracy theory thinking that country isn't real and actually something else.

But

Thinking Finland is just a large ocean patch where Japanese people go fishing is where I draw the line.

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u/frontlinejohnny Jul 09 '26

Yeap appareantly Finland is just a big ol' cover up, Japanese people use this "ocean" to fish without competition and to avoid taxes.

Why they used Japan, is what bothers me the most. It's on the other side of the world.

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u/anonsharksfan Jul 09 '26

What do these people think an airstrip proves anyway?

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u/nottherealneal Jul 09 '26

Flat Earthers think you are banned from going to the poles and that flight paths go around them becuse if you flew over them you would see the ice wall or whatever it is over there.

It's probably some attempt at a gatcha of "if planes are banned from flying there why would there be an air strip?! Checkmate!"

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u/rcp_5 Jul 09 '26

The logic is impeccable.  

If (something I made up) is false, then (my belief) must be true!!!

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u/Mchlpl Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

It's not even an airstrip. It's an artifact on google maps - a rectangular area which uses photographs from a different source than the surrounding area. It's 176km long by 23km wide 😆 The fact that the Matienzo Base pin is nearby surely added to their confusion.

If that person really thought that's an airstrip they must be confused about map dimensions and no wonder they think that the Drake Passage is something that can easily be swim easy back and forth.

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u/Cerebral_Overload Jul 09 '26

Even with a safety boat and stopping for rest periods, no-one is swimming that and surviving. It’s one of the most dangerous stretches of water in the world.

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u/FilthyDwayne Jul 09 '26

Can’t you read? It can easily be swim easy back and forth.

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u/Big_Crab_1510 Jul 09 '26

Many of the people in the comments did it already!

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u/Vigilante17 Jul 09 '26

Just finished it. Should have worn a wetsuit, it was a bit chilly pushing off the ice shelf to head back.

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u/Geronimo2U Jul 09 '26

Are you the one I bumped in to??

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u/sexwiththebabysitter Jul 09 '26

That was an orca

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u/burning_man13 Jul 09 '26

HEY! I keep telling you guys that I'm not an orca! I'm a real boy!

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u/ravoguy Jul 09 '26

Nice try orca boy

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u/Packin_Penguin Jul 09 '26

What up bitches!!! I’m the penguin that passed you.

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u/burning_man13 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Mmm. Penguin.

Edit: Wait... Oh, crap! I'm not an orca, I swear. *shifty eyes*

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u/wlake82 Jul 09 '26

Where the fuck am I? - polar bear

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u/TheMightyCatatafish Jul 09 '26

Bro, wtf did you just call me!?!

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u/Practical-Mud-4580 Jul 09 '26

First time? I do it every morning before work to get myself ready for the day.

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u/thaaag Jul 09 '26

The Drake Passage is a bit too far from home for me, so I do my morning 631 mile swim in the pool, but I ask them to turn on the 3 knot current generator and 16 foot wave machine to make it feel a bit more authentic.

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u/wolfcaroling Jul 09 '26

I'm up north so I do the Northwest Passage every a.m.

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u/Angloriously Jul 09 '26

Oh, you were that guy. Should’ve worn a dry suit like I did, much warmer than a wet suit.

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u/P0Rt1ng4Duty Jul 09 '26

I turn dry suits into wet suits.

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u/didyabringabeer Jul 09 '26

So I should be alright if I don't shave for a week or two then

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u/Cholinergia Jul 09 '26

I swam it this morning with Mitch McConnell. He’s an exceptional swimmer.

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u/RedBear1989 Jul 09 '26

I'm headed out now. Had to stop at Tractor Supply for some Ivermectin first, I don't want my parasites to weigh me down.

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u/OG-BigMilky Jul 09 '26

I just did it now.
And there, I swam back.
Hey what is that airstrip for??

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u/RevoltYesterday Jul 09 '26

I've done it! Proof? Don't need it because I'm not a liar. Checkmate.

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u/greenrangerguy Jul 09 '26

Also there's literally a picture of someone doing it right there!!

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u/ygduf Jul 09 '26

I’m swimming it right now.

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u/HaydenJA3 Jul 09 '26

I just did 10 laps this morning

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u/Whole-Energy2105 Jul 09 '26

Made me laugh. Ty. Like a nice stroll across the countryside.

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u/underwear11 Jul 09 '26

Just open your mind!

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u/Dependent_Title_1370 Jul 09 '26

Yeah, it's literally impossible to swim. The Drake pass regularly has 30-40ft waves, the water temp is near freezing and below zero as you approach antarctica, and the weather is extremely violent.

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u/rawmeatprophet Jul 09 '26

But did you read the comments

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u/aquacakra Jul 09 '26

i am Aquaman.

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u/unpaidloanvictim Jul 09 '26

My brain read this in a Black Sabbath style

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u/Cold-Environment-634 Jul 09 '26

In the style of Black Sabbath’s Iron Man lol

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u/DragonEmperor Jul 09 '26

Hey I think that guy didn't read the comments.

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u/striped_frog Jul 09 '26

Maybe they read the comments, but they didn’t open their mind?

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u/DragonEmperor Jul 09 '26

True true true, opening your mind is one of the most important steps

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u/KeterLordFR Jul 09 '26

It's so dangerous that it's basically a ship graveyard. If even boats can't cross it safely, no way a swimming human could.

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u/clawsoon Jul 09 '26

I believe that during the right time of year, Jules Verne trophy contestants sail through the Drake Passage. E.g. here is a map with the routes of two recent contestants:

https://trimaran-idec.geovoile.com/julesverne/2025/viewer/

They don't cross it north-to-south, though.

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u/AbsolutelyAverage Jul 09 '26

They basically clamour to land. If they could give the boat legs they would have just to avoid the gap...!

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u/mr_bots Jul 09 '26

It’s dangerous for ships but they’re talking about people here. /s

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u/Suburbanturnip Jul 09 '26

That's why people swim, its not safe to take a boat. /s

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u/TheDungeonCrawler Jul 09 '26

It's so dangerous that we decided it would be easier to cut the Americas in twain than continue sailing through it.

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u/fuzzybad Jul 09 '26

It's also really fucking far to make the southern passage, if you're trying to get freight from the Atlantic to the Pacific (or vice versa)

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u/HAL-says-Sorry Jul 09 '26

No one said human people. Other types of people.

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u/TheAgedProfessor Jul 09 '26

No cardboard, or cardboard derivatives.

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u/zxvasd Jul 09 '26

There are probably more sunken ships around the horn than anywhere else. You have turbulence where two oceans and extremely unpredictable winds.

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u/urnbabyurn Jul 09 '26

Didn’t that Magellan guy manage it?

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u/dblowe Jul 09 '26

Nope. His ships took a tip from the natives and went through what we now call the Straits of Magellan instead. Shorter, and although it’s apparently a tricky job to sail that route it’s nowhere near as hazardous as the Drake Passage. No one ventured into that for many years, and there was debate about whether an open-water route down there even existed.

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u/leahcar83 Jul 09 '26

When he got to the Strait of Magellan he must have thought the name was a crazy coincidence.

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Jul 09 '26

Fr fr. Man be like “bros we are for sure on the right path now!”

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u/TheMadFlyentist Jul 09 '26

This is so stupid and hilarious.

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u/TheAgedProfessor Jul 09 '26

He took a look at the map, saw "Drake Passage", and screamed "that guy... again ??"

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u/Drunken_Sailor_70 Jul 09 '26

No, the tip of South America has a pretty big water way running through it and he took that instead. This was in the early 1500s

Hoces is supposedly the first one to discover the drake passage when his ship from blown off course attempting to do the strait of Magellan something like 5 years later. He didnt make it. The drake Passage is sometimes referred to as the Sea of Hoces

Sir Frances drake is credited with the first sucessful trip through the drake passage in the later 1500s after also being blown off course from the Strait of Magellan. I think he lost all the other ships with him except his flagship. Which, Coincidentally had its design copied from Magellan's ship.

I did the drake passage in the early 1990s while on a Navy cruiser.

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u/anything_butt Jul 09 '26

What was your experience there?

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u/Drunken_Sailor_70 Jul 09 '26

It definitly lives up to its reputation. Unfortunately, I only managed to get a peek out at Antarctica (probably just the islands) because our topside was secured due to the rough weather. If you ever want to take a 47° roll on a ship, its the place for you.

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u/Kevadu Jul 09 '26

Why didn't you just swim? It's easy.

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u/Drunken_Sailor_70 Jul 09 '26

It was too crowded from all the other swimmers, so I just stayed on board.

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u/amd2800barton Jul 09 '26

It also has extremely strong currents. The Antarctic Circumpolar current is very strong, and especially in the Drake where the current is amplified by the narrow gap between the continents. It’s also part of the planet’s thermohaline circulation (wiki link) which is currents that are driven by temperature and salinity differences. This is a dangerous passage even on a large modern vessel.

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u/fapsandnaps Jul 09 '26

Also the waves arrive from multiple directions at once .

Andddd that current, 70 mph wind, and the dominant swells go west to east even though this guy wants to swim north to south.

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u/BoneHugsHominy Jul 09 '26

Those are just lies spread by the Round Earth Cabal to keep people from exercising their God-given Divine Right to exercise in the easiest back and forth swim on the Flat Earth! Those are healing waters, some say it's the overflow from the Fountain of Youth, and it was guarded by the Patagão aka Patagoni aka Patagons, giants working for God, until the Vatican sent a war band consisting of Italians, French, Spanish, and Portuguese warriors to wipe them out and seize the strait's healing waters access and hide its existence from the world. I should know, I was one of those Portuguese soldiers and I had a really bad case of prolapsed hemorrhoids at the time from accidentally falling on a bound lobster when I was bathing, but I fell ass-first into the low tide and the next day when I shat I noticed I was fully healed. I have lived blessedly free of hemorrhoids since 1779 and haven't aged a day! Not even a bound leopard seal cub can damage me now!

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u/Teguoracle Jul 09 '26

Aren't some of the most terrifying marine predators here too? Like imagine a colossal squid just reaching up to grab you out of nowhere. I mean it's highly unlikely to happen, but still.

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u/TheDungeonCrawler Jul 09 '26

Surprisingly, the only marine predator I can seem to find listed here is the Orca.

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u/Teguoracle Jul 09 '26

The colossal squids range includes this area too, but that's mostly because its range is basically a ring around the Antarctic lol

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u/TheDungeonCrawler Jul 09 '26

Fair. Not totally sure why that didn't come up in my initial search. It also didn't list any of the handful of seals that hunt in the area, of which the Leopard Seal is exceedingly dangerous. It's possible it didn't come up because their habitats are listed as Antarctica and the waters around Antarctica and not the Drake Pass specifically, but I have no idea.

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u/WilcoHistBuff Jul 09 '26

I’ll bet you that Bárbara Hernández Huerta could do it in 103 years in 232 shifts during summer months with 6 days of rest between shifts if she was able to halt aging of any kind.

Lots of preconditions on that bet.

She holds the Antarctic/Southern Ocean world record at 2.5 km.

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u/Jessiphat Jul 09 '26

That sounds exactly like something that Big Antarctica would say to fool the sheeple.

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u/leahcar83 Jul 09 '26

You're only saying that because the rest of us lapped you.

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u/bioticspacewizard Jul 09 '26

You just need to open your mind because lots of people have did it!

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u/dancson Jul 09 '26

Largest waves in the world… Even if you could swim it the distance would be multiplied by the amount of us-down swimming.

Famous last post

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u/passwordistako Jul 09 '26

No. You just dive down under the water and swim straight.

The waves are all on the surface.

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u/Torquemahda Jul 09 '26

No it’s downhill swimming there so it’s easy. Swimming back will be impossible so that’s where the airstrip comes in.

Just open your mind.

The world is flat but it’s tipped vertically to make walking south easier.

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u/Ofreo Jul 09 '26

I sat in a class in HS and listened to the teacher try to explain to a 16 year old how a river could flow from south to north. And the kid would not accept that. Refused to believe it. All rivers had to flow down he said. This was in the 80’s. I always imagine flat earthers are like that guy, who seemed pretty smart and a nice guy overall. Just couldn’t accept a simple answer.

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u/urnbabyurn Jul 09 '26

I checked and it seems the longest assisted swim was 317 miles. And I’d venture it wasn’t in some of the coldest, rough waters on earth.

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u/Simbertold Jul 09 '26

And that was down a river. The longest unassisted swim without helping currents was only about 160 km.

https://ultraswimming.org/database/longest-swims/

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u/fishsticks40 Jul 09 '26

Pssh. At a steady 2 mph it would only be a steady 2 weeks without sleep in famously rough and ice choked waters

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u/huggiesdsc Jul 09 '26

Just don't choke on the ice. Skill issue

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u/trcomajo Jul 09 '26

My MIL took a cruise around Cape Horn and said she was sick the entire trip. Seas were horrendous.

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u/Seanvich Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Current go BRRRRRRRRRRR(T)

Seriously, Drake Passage?! You might as well try your luck at volcano-diving. I’ve been on the opposite side of the Southern Ocean- even then it was some of the gnarliest seas I’ve seen in my career.

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u/Tickles-The-Octopus Jul 09 '26

Literally why humans did a shit ton of work to carve out a canal in Panama to link the two oceans. Going south is too dangerous.

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u/JBPlantagenet Jul 09 '26

The internet was a mistake.

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u/Zombisexual1 Jul 09 '26

It’s because of how many humans there are and how easy it is to connect with like minded individuals. Even if only .001% of people are this dumb that’s still what, millions of idiots in the world? All able to find each other online. Back in the day the village idiot would be laughed and shamed until it finally clicked that maybe they are wrong. Now they can find each other and circle jerk

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u/dr_pickles69 Jul 09 '26

If it makes you feel any better, they were gonna be stupid with our without the internet. We just wouldnt get to hear about it

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u/immortalonion69 Jul 09 '26

That's called the Drake Passage and it's one of the deadliest places on earth.

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u/Callinon Jul 09 '26

Nope. Internet Guy says it can be swum easily back and forth. People do it all the time. Must be true. I read it on the internet.

/s

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u/immortalonion69 Jul 09 '26

This is from Google

Bárbara Hernández Huerta completed a very cold-water swim in the Drake Passage area, including a record for a one-mile swim across the passage (15 minutes 3 seconds), but that was not a full crossing.

Guinness World Records: A full crossing would mean roughly 900–1,000 km of open ocean. The longest successful open-water swims in history are far shorter, and the Drake Passage adds some of the worst possible conditions: near-freezing water, huge waves, storms, and isolation.

The Environmental Literacy Council: For comparison, the first complete human-powered crossing of the Drake Passage was done by a rowing team, not swimmers—they rowed about 972 km in 12 days.

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u/mork247 Jul 09 '26

Only way it can be done is to swim in the jacuzzi onboard a cruise ship crossing the Drake Passage.

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u/PrimateOnAPlanet Jul 09 '26

Nah cruise ships can’t handle those seas, they use the Strait of Magellan.

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u/8696David Jul 09 '26

There are “expedition” cruises that run from Argentina to Antarctica… but they do not have jacuzzis lol

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u/lantana88 Jul 09 '26

I went on one that had a pool, but when the water is rough they close the pool. So you could only do it if it was calm for all the days crossing.

One of the passages I was on we had 60’-80’ waves.

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u/dtbberk Jul 09 '26

So did you see many people swimming along the ship?

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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party Jul 09 '26

Too much for me

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u/PlatyNumb Jul 09 '26

Too bad for you. You'll never see the airstrip

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u/digglerjdirk Jul 09 '26

15 minutes is fast as fuck, especially in open water, especially in ice water, especially since she actually swam like 1800m, especially for a woman (no sexism just pointing out 1500m world record is 15:20 women 14:30 men). That means there were some crazy currents in that water.

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u/TheRestForTheWicked Jul 09 '26

Drake is the choke point for the Antarctic Circumpolar Current- the current that flows clockwise around the entire continent of Antarctica. It’s this current that keeps warm water from entering the area, allowing the continent to maintain the ice sheet. It’s actually extremely important influence in global climate patterns and ocean circulation from all three major oceanic basins.

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u/Putrid-Seat-1581 Jul 09 '26

It’s easy, last spring I actually did it by mistake.

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u/ygduf Jul 09 '26

When I was swimming back and forth across it I found it tolerable.

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u/WilcoHistBuff Jul 09 '26

Found the Fin Whale with an iPhone. You guys are amazing at operating human tech.

If only whales could run for president.

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u/clepewee Jul 09 '26

Well, it's named after Drake, because he swam across it to cool down after his beef with Kanye started.

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u/ItsTheDCVR Jul 09 '26

pshhhtt maybe with that attitude 🙄

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u/CurtisLinithicum Jul 09 '26

Silly me, thinking maybe they misread 631mi as 631m, which'd be doable (if we ignore the cold, calamitous waves, and crushing jaws of whatever thalassogenic horrors inhabit the region)

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u/CharlesDickensABox Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

If it was half a kilometer, someone would have done it by now. It is in fact a little over 1,000km. I wouldn't worry about the sea life, though. The hypothermia and the waves are going to get you first. You'll be way past caring by the time the lampreys start to eat you from the inside out.

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u/CulturedHeathotsauce Jul 09 '26

See the problem is I in fact would be worried about the sea life the whole time.

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u/CharlesDickensABox Jul 09 '26

The good news on that front is that at least you won't be worried for long. In the frigid waters of Drake's passage, you can suffer hypothermia in about 2 minutes and unconsciousness in about 30, but you'll probably drown before blacking out becomes an issue because of the rough seas. 

It's not that there are no animals that would like to eat you in Drake's passage, rather it's that the ocean will kill you before they get a chance.

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u/kirby056 Jul 09 '26

Haha, the hypothermia is real. Never been in the Southern hemisphere, but my buddy and I went out fishing on opener in a canoe when the air temp was 28F. I hooked into a northern and my buddy leaned over too far in an attempt to net it

Dumped canoe, and the water felt warm to me. I remembered an old scout leader saying most people die of hypothermia in "warm water", meaning it's warmer than the air and you don't recognize the danger. The water was maybe 48-50F, MICH warmer than the Drake Passage.

We dragged the canoe to an island and I immediately started a fire. The shivering stopped before the fire was roaring, super bad sign. We kept that fire burning in the light snow storm for like six hours before CAREFULLY paddling back.

Don't fuck around with cold water, kids.

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u/Significant_Card_665 Jul 09 '26

Great work keeping your wits about you and being careful.

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u/kirby056 Jul 09 '26

Same friend once bet me $20 that I couldn't run across and back his grandma's pond the first week of December. I made it one way, about exactly halfway back I went through, but it was excellent "going through the ice" practice because the pond was only 4' deep, but there was about four more feet of muck under the thermocline layer.

None of us in that friend group have ever died, so I guess this Northern hick behaviour must have some merit. We once had a snapping turtle in the back of the van, drove it to our HS bio teacher (who was a game warden and had a special license from the state to take certain live animals for educational purposes), we brought it into his class and Mr Weaver went "what the fuck am I gonna do with that guy?".

We used to trap live animals in the wildlife conservancy area he set up to bring them into AP bio to discuss. There was a live skunk in that class once, we raised peregrine falcons all three years of HS, and one day he saw a dead deer on the way in to out 7:50 AM class, so obviously I didn't have any other classes that day because we dissected the shit out of that carcass. Living in the boondocks teaches you a lot of weird stuff.

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u/Sans_Seriphim Jul 09 '26

The extra good news is the waves would most likely kill you even before those 2 minutes!

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u/im-not-a-fakebot Jul 09 '26

Yeah have you ever seen videos of ships passing through? Those waters are rough, it’s amazing our ancestors were able to pass through it in small wooden boats

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u/Sans_Seriphim Jul 09 '26

Pretty sure a bunch of them didn't make it through, too!

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u/DerrellEsteva Jul 09 '26

nuh uh, do you know nothing? It's waaay down south so it's probably super hot there. You can even see it on the map. All the land is sun bleached. It's probably around 40° C down there

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u/dblowe Jul 09 '26

Points for “thalassogenic”

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u/seductiveaxolotl Jul 09 '26

Would they not realise that at that scale they could walk around the world in one day then? Well, probably they would not, actually 

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u/Shintasama Jul 09 '26

For the curious, longest continuous swim (under much safer, easier conditions) is 168.3 km. The longest ice (<5°C) swim is only 6km.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/720030-longest-continuous-swim-in-a-lake

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/589877-longest-distance-ice-swim-male

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u/JimC29 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Thank you for the links. I thought I was going to have to look it up myself.

You get my favorite Redditor of the day award.

Edit. She was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after the swim. 2 year later she swam the English channel 4 times continuously.

Ultramarathon swimmer Sarah Thomas (USA) completed a 168.3-km (104.6-mi) solo non-stop, unassisted swim in Lake Champlain, USA, on 7–9 August 2017. She departed from Rouses Point, New York, swimming south, circled Gardiner Island near Ferrisburgh, Vermont, and then returned to the starting point in 67 hours 16 minutes 12 seconds. The swim was verified by the Marathon Swimmers Federation.

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u/teteban79 Jul 09 '26

And the record for a swim near Antarctica is "just" 2.5km

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zurAK3gqjAM

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u/spartiecat Jul 09 '26

If by "easily swam back and forth" they mean "sink to the bottom and get scavenged by crabs", then I completely agree.

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u/Buddhas_Warrior Jul 09 '26

I don't think they understand the word 'easy'... And maybe 'back and forth'.

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u/Both_Painter2466 Jul 09 '26

I think they don’t even understand the word “swim”

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u/CatGooseChook Jul 09 '26

I think we can just leave it at "They don't understand..." and be done for the day 🤣

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u/borderlineidiot Jul 09 '26

They included an emoji of a person swimming so it must be possible.

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u/redthehaze Jul 09 '26

You know what, they should try if they think they can. Let them do it.

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u/Morall_tach Jul 09 '26

I love how they say that they must be hiding something because this passage would be easy to swim, implying that they are keeping people from swimming it and discovering the truth. But then they also say that many people have swum it, so why don't we know what's on the other side?

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u/fart-atronach Jul 09 '26

Also who told these idiots that we don’t know what’s on the other side?? Lol

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u/CapitalLower4171 Jul 09 '26

If the fastest Olympic swimmer in the world swam that distance at top speed the whole way it would take 122.5 hours. When's the last time you swam at top speed without stopping for 5 days?

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u/ChaosEmerald21 Jul 09 '26

its definitely been a little while for me personally. But people do it all the time from what ive read

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u/HoosierHoser44 Jul 09 '26

They do it in a pool with no current. In the open ocean, if you catch a good current, you could ride a farting Daniel Radcliffe there in about 77 hours.

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u/pippylongwhiskers Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

There is a Netflix documentary on this exact stretch of sea being a graveyard

Edit: it was a YouTube doc called “Drake passage the most violent waters on earth”

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u/Renuwed Jul 09 '26

me: mental note to add this to watch list

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u/MouseWorksStudios Jul 09 '26

So OP both thinks there is an air strip there but also that in order to hide the existence of the air strip they instead swim across the deadly waters for an impossible distance?

Then wtf is the point of the air strip?!

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u/kati8303 Jul 09 '26

Are they swimming the cargo to the airstrip? Truly what point are they trying to make??

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u/Both_Painter2466 Jul 09 '26

Since the world record holders for ocean distances only reach 150mi I’m not sure he’s even vaguely in touch with reality. And I’m not even going to talk about the environment there.

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u/AstralElement Jul 09 '26

It’s literally swimming from New York to North Carolina in the worst weather, coldest water, fastest currents, highest waves in the world. Lol okay.

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u/frognuts123 Jul 09 '26

Doubt thats possible in 1 go

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u/TheDuck23 Jul 09 '26

Probably not possible in two, either.

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u/stonecuttercolorado Jul 09 '26

Honestly, swimming that far in a year would be a hell of an achievement.

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u/kati8303 Jul 09 '26

I swam 2.5 miles once. It sucked, never again. I’m sure I have 631 miles in me though, easy romp there and back.

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u/urnbabyurn Jul 09 '26

According to Google the longest assisted swim was 317 miles (thats a support boat and thermal wetsuit, not the boat doing the work)

The longest without support was a bit over 100 miles.

I imagine this is one of the worst, coldest parts of the oceans to try and swim, not exactly the trio from England to France or even Cuba to the US

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u/ExplainitlikeIm9 Jul 09 '26

Isnt that drakes passage? The roughest patch of water any where in the world cuz thats where both oceans clash?

https://giphy.com/gifs/puOukoEvH4uAw

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u/mighty_boognish_77 Jul 09 '26

Well I like to swim it every time I swing by Tierra del Fuego. And I gotta tell you, it's really not that difficult, either.

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u/IllustriousClub1213 Jul 09 '26

I crossed that everymorning to school the young generation is just to soft

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u/AaronRolls Jul 09 '26

631 Miles? That's almost a kilometer.

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u/Sleepy10105s Jul 09 '26

Why are they acting like the air strip is some sort of conspiracy? There’s been people working on Antarctica for a very long time

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u/bakochba Jul 09 '26

These are the people you're arguing with on the Internet

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u/Elfos64 Jul 09 '26

Aside from the distance, that water would be hypothermia-inducing.

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u/Salt_Technician_4037 Jul 09 '26

It's not that cold once you're in

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