54 - The Graveyard of the Pacific. Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered why some trails are created? In Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on the coast of Vancouver Island, is the West Coast Trail. A beautiful trail that attracts backpackers from all over the world every single year. It is full of lush greenery, beaches, and exciting wildlife. It's the perfect place to escape to for an adventure.

But this trail wasn't created for backpackers. It was created for a different reason, to rescue survivors of shipwrecks off the coast. Here lives some of the most dangerous waters in the Pacific Ocean. In 1906 one of the most devastating shipwrecks happened. Due to bad weather conditions and mistakes in navigation, it crashed onto a reef, just out of reach of land. Passengers and crew members did everything they could to try to get to safety but the violent waves fought them every step of the way. Onlookers had no way to reach them to help, and stood by helplessly as people died.

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0:00.0	Some of the most beautiful places in the world hold some of the most devastating history.
0:09.0	National parks preserve these beautiful areas of wildlife, landscapes, and places of
0:13.8	cultural importance so that they remain there.
0:17.6	Each National Park you visit has a series of trails that you can walk along, a way to
0:23.1	see the park in all of its entirety, to emerge yourself within the landscapes.
0:29.4	Have you ever walked along these trails and stopped to wonder why the trail is there?
0:34.3	Is it there solely for the purpose of exploring the park?
0:38.2	Or does it have other uses?
0:40.5	When you travel to Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, you head to some of the most beautiful
0:45.9	landscapes in all of British Columbia.
0:49.2	Inside this park resides one of the most traveled trails in all of Canada.
0:54.0	And it has been labeled as one of the best trails in the entire world.
0:59.0	While it has become a backpackers paradise, it wasn't created for that.
1:04.2	This trail was created to be a source for rescue missions.
1:08.0	After the worst maritime disaster in the Pacific, killed over 100 people.
1:14.1	Welcome to National Park after dark.
1:37.8	Is this a maritime national park?
1:40.0	It's not, but it is a national park inside Canada that is on the coast.
1:44.8	And our story takes place in the ocean.
1:48.4	That is, I don't know what is going on, but I'm doing, for the first time, a maritime
1:56.2	centered bonus story for Patreon this month.
1:59.8	Really?
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