At the age of 72, adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin has succeeded in crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel, using just the tides, winds and ocean currents. He has just set foot on French soil, after 127 days and 5,800 kilometres at sea

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[–]magnora7[S] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

This is nuts. No sail, no engine. Just the currents. Incredibly impressive.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's pretty neat.

What was even neater, IMO, was how, long before satellites and computers, they used to drop notes in bottles with the date, location, etc. and they would also collect and log them - and by accumulating all the global data over centuries they developed maps of the ocean currents, trade winds, etc.