Cape of Good Hope
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Sep 12, 2026
Barry EadsNARRATOR
But just as I had determined upon a vessel, something deterred me each time.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
At length, after my friends had professed the belief many times that I never would go to sea, and that it was merely a bluff on my part, I determined that, come what would, to sea I should go, and after some little difficulty persuading my wife that it would be of incalculable benefit to her health, so that she finally decided to try not the Cape Horn voyage, but the passage to the east round the Cape of Good Hope.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
For many weeks I cast about me to find not only a suitable vessel, but an agreeable and gentlemanly skipper.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
For taking one's wife to sea is a vastly different affair from going alone and putting up with whatever may happen along.
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Barry EadsNARRATOR
Very few specimens have ever been taken.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
In fact, there are only five basking sharks whose size has been accurately and authentically determined.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
One was captured near the Cape of Good Hope, two near the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, one on the coast of California, and one on the Peruvian coast.
Barry EadsNARRATOR
It is thought that sharks do not descend farther than three hundred fathoms.
Brett McGurkGUEST
So if you're buying a car, if you're buying furniture, there's a decent chance that it's going through that straight.
Brett McGurkGUEST
The alternative is around the Cape of Good Hope all the way around Africa, which, of course,
Jake TapperHOST
prices prices.
Jake TapperHOST
Kylie, I would tell us more about this call that MBS made or calls MBS made with President Trump trying to get the U.S. to strike the Houthis.
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
But as soon as we could gather the opinions of those in authority on board, it gradually leaked out that we really had fallen upon quite a wrong time for such a voyage, for we very soon found ourselves in the tropics during their hottest month, early in August.
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
And after having been nearly roasted for three weeks, we plunged abruptly into midwinter or, at all events, very early spring off the Cape of Good Hope and went through a season of bitterly cold weather with three heavy gales.
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
I pitied the poor sailors from the bottom of my heart at their work all night on decks slippery with ice and pulling at ropes so frozen that it was almost impossible to bend them.
Gail Timmerman VaughanNARRATOR
But thank God, there were no casualties among the men.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
So you've still got time today and tomorrow to maybe enjoy a braai at the popular spots like you can go to Tukai Forest, Newlands Forest, Otakrol, You can pack a picnic and spend the day relaxing near Silvermine Dam with family and friends.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
Also, of course, the Cape of Good Hope, beautiful, one of the breathtaking reserves and a top tourist destination.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
And you can also keep an eye out there for wildlife such as Eolant, Red Hartebius, Bontebok.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
and Zebra as you explore what is a very unique section of the park.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
It's going to be between 8.15 and about 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
And the height will take you from Gifkomiki to the Fasilia shipwreck via the coastline and then back via the Hoek van Bobbejaan.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
That's in the Cape of Good Hope section.
Jeff AyliffeCORRESPONDENT
It's a circular route about 5.8 kilometers long.
Les JacksonHOST
... is coming through the Panama Canal.
Les JacksonHOST
You're not going down the Cape of Good Hope-
Fred StaabHOST
Right
Les JacksonHOST
... uh, because that's one long trip.
Rhonda FedermanNARRATOR
They insisted that the land must extend entirely across the sea and that it had no end.
Rhonda FedermanNARRATOR
Vasco da Gama knew that it had an end, for another great navigator, named Bartholomew Diaz, had already found the end and called it the Cape of Storms because of the very bad weather he had encountered there.
Rhonda FedermanNARRATOR
Near this cape Vasco also met with storms and his men wished to turn back.
Rhonda FedermanNARRATOR
But like Columbus, Vasco was determined to go on.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Presently the whole coastland of the sea, which the Greeks, on their first coming, called Euxinos, the inhospitable, became fringed with trading settlements, and its name was changed to Euxinos, the hospitable, in recognition of its friendly ports.
speaker_6NARRATOR
It was in a similar spirit that, two thousand years later, the seamen who led the next great impulse of exploration that rose in Europe turned the name of the Cape of Storms into that of the Cape of Good Hope.
speaker_6NARRATOR
The Megarians, almost more than any other Greeks, devoted their attention to the Euxine, and the foundation of Byzantium was but one of their many achievements.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Already, seventeen years before Byzantium came into being, another band of Megarian colonists had established themselves at Chalcedon, on the opposite Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Necessity proved the mother of discovery.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In looking for a track to the far east, Columbus stumbled upon a new continent, while Vasco da Gama's famous voyage to India by the Cape of Good Hope in 1497 finished the work of Diaz and the Portuguese mariners and opened up the oldest continent to European trade and conquest.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
In 1519, Magellan's expedition earned the proud distinction of first circumnavigating the globe.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Europe turned her face to the west, and the Mediterranean ceased to be her commercial center.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
And that will take you back to the Vasco da Gama era, which means to go east to west, you will have to go all the way around Africa, the entire African region.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
That is, that is through the Cape of Good Hope.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
That is the tip, Cape of Good Hope.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
And then you will come around.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
That'll add thousands of kilometers to your voyage or thousands of nautical miles to your voyage.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
Saudi oil production already from about 6.1 million barrels a day about three months back came down to 5.1, and is now down to 3, 3.1 million barrels a day.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
And we've also seen pictures and maps from very reputed handles that track global tanker traffic that some of the Saudi tankers going east which are destined to go to, say, China are not, not taking the Bab el M- Ma- Mandeb route.
Shekhar GuptaHOST
They are actually turning north, going up the North Sea into, into Suez Canal, crossing the Suez Canal, and then coming around and doing that old Vasco de Gama-style chakkar from Cape of Good Hope.
Eric J. DolanGUEST
They weren't having much luck there, so Edward Barnard had the opportunity and the option of changing his orders.
Eric J. DolanGUEST
The owner gave him that option, so he went around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean, which is a good hunting grounds.
Eric J. DolanGUEST
They didn't have much more luck, killed a few more whales, and then he decided to go all the way to the Pacific Ocean, which was literally teeming with millions of those sperm whales.
Eric J. DolanGUEST
That was the number one whaling ocean in the world.
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