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Criminal

Shipwrecked

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

There’s an old sailors’ saying about the ocean at the southernmost part of the world — “below 40 degrees latitude, there is no law; below 50 degrees, there is no God.” David Grann brings us the story of what happened when five British warships set off on a secret mission to steal a ship filled with treasure. They’d have to sail around the very bottom of South America — at 56 degrees south. David Grann’s book is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:24.9

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:36.0

These are among, if not the worst seas in the world. They're at the very tip of the Americas and off the very end of Patagonia.

0:41.0

And it's the only place on earth where the seas flow

0:45.9

uninterrupted around the globe. So over a span of 13,000 miles,

0:51.3

these seas and these waves accumulate enormous power.

0:55.2

You can have a wave that can dwarf a 90-foot mast.

1:01.4

It is also the strongest currents on Earth and then there are the winds which can

1:06.5

accelerate routinely to hurricane force and even reach as much as 200 miles per hour. This is author David Graham. He's talking

1:16.4

about the ocean around Cape Horn, the southernmost point in South America. Herman Melville, the novelist who made it around the horn,

1:26.0

described it or compared it to a descent into hell in Dante's Inferno.

1:35.0

There's an old sailor saying, below 40 degrees latitude, there is no law.

1:39.0

Below 50 degrees, there is no God.

1:42.0

Cape Horn is at nearly 56 degrees latitude.

1:47.0

Before the Panama Canal was completed, the only way to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific was to sail around the bottom of South America.

1:57.0

Hundreds of ships wrecked trying it.

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