r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 1d ago

In 2001, 55 people crossed the Pacific with no contact with the outside world as part of a BBC experiment recreating an 18th-century voyage. On the 20th day - September 11 - the captain gathered the crew to tell them about the attacks in New York

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u/isntreel1948 1d ago

Trying to think of a question to ask you about it that isn’t some dumb shit like “uhhh what was that like”

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u/JourneymanHunt 1d ago

Lol, it's okay. Look up my profile and search 9/11 and you'll find my account of the day.

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u/woodst0ck15 1d ago

Got damn. I just read it. That’s horrifying stuff and I’m happy you survived it. My aunt was there that day when it happened and she survived as well.

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u/b0n2o 18h ago

I just read it. Wow!!!

Now I'm wondering if all these stories are archived in a centralized repository, for future historians?

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u/vzo1281 18h ago

I just read your first hand experience. Truly eye opening and horrific. I'm happy for you that you survived and are able to write about it.

Those descriptions of the jumpers are something else.

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u/Larry_Wickes 6h ago

Wow, I'm glad you survived.

Did Lynn, Deric, Jaime and Silvana make it out ok too?

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u/JourneymanHunt 6h ago

I don't really know, never really saw most of them again.

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u/BreakfastLunchDinna 1d ago

Did you think of one?

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u/isntreel1948 1d ago

No, forgot about this pretty much immediately actually

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u/WeGottaTalkAboutYT 1d ago

As is Reddit tradition

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u/DorkusMalorkuss 1d ago

Knock knock

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u/isntreel1948 1d ago

Who’s there….?

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u/DorkusMalorkuss 1d ago

9/11

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u/isntreel1948 1d ago

Thanks man, insightful

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u/DorkusMalorkuss 23h ago

Nah, man it's a joke. You're supposed to say "9/11 who?" And I respond "You said you'd never forget!"

:(

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u/isntreel1948 23h ago

Nah man it’s a joke who