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Point Nemo and the Great Southern Ocean

from What Does Your Brother Do In The Navy · #82

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5 min

Tim goes down a YouTube rabbit hole about Point Nemo, the most remote point in the ocean, its status as a satellite graveyard, and the enormous swells of the Great Southern Ocean, while Ray teases him about seeming suicidal.

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  • 28:46Tim received a mysterious text about an ocean no one goes to.
  • 29:17Point Nemo is the furthest point from land on Earth—closer to people in the space station than to any human on the surface.
  • 29:51The Great Southern Ocean has buoys there and is the only ocean completely unobstructed by land around the entire 360 degrees of the planet.
  • 30:23Waves in the Great Southern Ocean never break because there's no land to obstruct them, so the swells just keep going.
  • 31:17Point Nemo is a graveyard for satellites that re-enter orbit and drop into the area where nobody's around.
  • 31:37The only wildlife at Point Nemo is penguins and occasional glaciers; there's not much life there at all.
  • 31:55The Great Southern Ocean produces 50 to 60 foot swells, with some recordings of 120 foot waves.
  • 32:50Yacht racers frequently die attempting to traverse these waters through Point Nemo in global races.
  • 33:05Tim compares the calling of sailing alone on a boat for 120 days to the weirdness of stand-up comedy.
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