An Iriot original.

I was born with a special gift.

The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario.

In my own brain.

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters.

And find out who's to play play.

They say history repeats itself.

Not on my watch.

My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith, and I am the alarmist.

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the alarmist.

A comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest tragedies.

And figure out who's to blame.

Today we're discussing the Karlic disaster.

Here's what you need to know.

The uncharted territories and remote inuit people of the Arctic continent

had allured white men on daring expeditions for years.

When explorer and anthropologist Vigelmoor Stephenson received funding from the Canadian government

for an expedition to the high Arctic, a region in the Beaufort Sea.

Eager to continue his Arctic studies and possibly discover new land,

Stephenson gathered his crew and vessel, the Karlic, a 29-year-old wooden whaler,

which had been retired for years.

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