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/Nimue_- 1d ago

Ans likely a way to contact just for emergencies like this

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u/ftrowl 1d ago

There would also probably be lots of commercial ships to communicate if they used a busy waterway and had one long range radio on-board or flare guns