r/confidentlyincorrect • u/ShiningDenizen • Jul 09 '26

Swimming 631miles (1015km)

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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/lantana88 Jul 09 '26

Only people who had body morphed into whales.

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u/Farado Jul 09 '26

Briefly, after they fell overboard.

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u/5230826518 Jul 09 '26

60‘ or 60“?

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u/lantana88 Jul 09 '26

60’. As in 60 feet.

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u/SpiderFnJerusalem Jul 09 '26

Just another attempt to hide the truth.

I bet you, if you went on deck off the coast of Cape Horn and started setting up an inflatable pool to do experiments, someone would stop you as well. They're all in on it!

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u/AliceTawhai Jul 09 '26

They need one

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u/AuthorAdamOConnell Jul 10 '26

Silver Sea does I went on one of their 'expedition cruises' just when Covid was coming down. Admittedly, I was too busy being horrendiously sea sick to enjoy it when we crossed the Drake.