Drake Passage

And I hadn't even thought that.

I mean, I've signed laws from Antarctica on the ship somewhere at the Drake Strait or something.

I put Estonian prime minister into office from Portuguese parliament building.

I mean, that we, of course, we realized it as a big show about the real life in Estonia.

I chartered a small vessel.

We spent like for 23 days on this 40 foot, like 15 meter, tiny sailboat, five days crossing the Drake passage just to get to the Antarctic peninsula.

Um, it literally was, it was the craziest experience ever.

It's the, like the harshest and roughest waters in the world.

Um, But this particular place is like a little bit more sheltered and visible to see wildlife.

And so that was like a huge safety reason why we chose Deception Island.

And then, yeah, the crazy part, though, is like after crossing this Drake Passage for nearly five days, we were like up, down, up, down, practically fasted because like you're so sick.

If I haven't mentioned already, I brought my brother and my mom on this trip.

So, yeah, so that's kind of the plan.

So, yeah, it's basically get to Argentina, two days on the boat through the Drake Passage to get to the Antarctic Peninsula.

And then it's sounding like within the first couple of days it's probably going to be the 100K race part of that kind of week, I guess.

Yep.

Yeah, it's a great experience.

And so obviously talking about the Drake Passage, a lot of people worry about it and going through it, obviously.

you hear there's the drake lake or the drake shake but obviously to make people's fears obviously it can be bad but obviously can you let them know how bad it actually isn't

yeah so i mean when i did it so i've been lucky enough to do it twice um when i was traveling to antarctica um and both times i had the drake lake

That's the thing.

So definitely don't quote me on it, but the statistic is around one out of ten times you might experience the Drake Shake.

And, you know, travelling over the Drake Passage is a rite of passage when you're travelling to Antarctica.

Of course.

Expeditions typically must cross this notoriously rough and windy body of water.

Is it the Magellan Strait, the Tasman Sea, or the Drake Passage?

I've heard of Magellan, and the only Drake I know sang some songs about hotline blings.

I don't know, but that sounds like also a name of a coffee cake and an explorer.

So let's go Drake.

Drake Passage is

correct.

Is it right? It is correct.

And what was different, of course, is at that time it was a little bit closer to South America.

And the stretch of water that currently separates them, which is today known as the Drake Passage, had only just opened up.

And that was something that was going to have huge impacts on the environment of particularly Antarctica, but the world as a whole.

By opening up the Drake Passage, you get the circumpolar current, which is this oceanic current that goes all the way around Antarctica and doesn't get stopped by any sort of continental landmass.

And because this opened up, this is the point at which Antarctica begins to cool down.

You get a separation of the weather system of the South Pole and prevents the sort of exchange of warmth with the tropics.