If “north of Antarctica” isn’t enough to narrow it down, here are a few tips: it’s also south of the Arctic, further from the Sun than Venus, closer to the Sun than Mars. Now it’s easy to find it!
Of course they aren’t going to give the exact location. That wreck would be ransacked for scrap metal if it isn’t resting too deep. Like in Indonesia several WW2 shipwrecks have gone missing.
3000 meters is pretty fucking deep.
Like - 6 times deeper than the deepest hardsuit dive in history.
There’s only a few ships in the world that can salvage at that depth, and they’re not fly-by-night pirate operations.
a fun fact about this, by the way
the reason we scavenge steel from old shipwrecks is because all modern peoduced steel is contaminated with a miniscule - but still present - amount of radioactive isotopes, incompatible with some incredibly precise scientific instruments and other nieche, but essential applications, that not only require old steel, but old steel that wasn’t exposed to all the radioactive fallout during the nuclear tests in the cold war, hence why the sunken ships.
adding a personal note here, if some nuclear tests around the world contaminated everything THIS MUCH, what will we say about microplastics in a couple decades? just food for thought
People have been talking shit about microplastic contamination for a while now…
You can’t see radiation filling up a bird’s stomach. People are, ultimately, very bad about dealing with things we cannot see.
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
I can specify: south of the arctic.
I appreciate the “perhaps”, like, the headline qualifies how annoyed they are at imprecision.
Near the British Empire then.
I assume they mean “just north of Antarctica”. But really it could be any body of water on the planet it could fit in.
Yeah even “near Antarctica” narrows it down to the South Atlantic, South Pacific and South Indian oceans.
if we suppose “just” means near in this context, “Just north of antarctica” and “Near antarctica” has exactly the same meaning.
It still narrows it down to about 1/8th of the Earth’s surface area.
“Just north of Antarctica” is still not helpful at all though. Even a hemisphere would narrow it down more.
It literally says beneath the Weddell sea.
But where is the Weddell sea?
Just north of Antarctica
It’s wrapped around by that peninsula that juts toward(ish) the Andes.
It is helpful in that it gives an idea of what sort of waters it sank at. Being close to Antarctica my mind immediately goes to heavy seas with cold weather.
Yeah… probably “between Antarctica and the South Atlantic” would be the best reference here.
[Now it’s probably not the time for me to ramble on how the Atlantic should be considered two oceans instead of one, right?]
Just north of Antarctica in the southern hemisphere.
Listen here you little shit.
lol what else did they mean by hemisphere? is there an eastern and a western hemisphere?
Yes! Divided by the prime meridian and the antimeridian. That’s a good question, though.
That feels wrong though. First of all the prime meridian is completely arbitrary (as opposed to the equator), and in some parts of the world like Japan and New Zealand the “western” hemisphere would actually be closest towards the east.
It is arbitrary! England declared themselves the center of the world, and everyone else went with it.
The location is being kept secret to prevent looting.
The peninsula is considered the north side. So the location of the shipwreck is south of South America.
Hey it’s just south of Orkney. Small world.
the peninsula is considered the north side
look at the peninsula
it’s on the west side
You’re looking at it from the South Pole, so there is no West, only North.
Well sure, and I get that, but the map we’re looking at clearly has a W-E line marked, presumably on the prime meridian. It’s pretty westerly in that regard which seems like a pretty sensible perspective to me on how to navigate at the south pole.
If you handed me this map and told me to go North I would go to Dronning Maud Land.
Yeah, the Weddell Sea is basically in Antarctica
Ah. South of the Arctic.
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asshat with a scuba tank
3000 meters beneath the Weddell Sea
Good luck
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From what I’ve read, billionaires need more private sub trips
We don’t talk about what’s South of Antarctica
You mean beyond the ice wall that marks the edge of the disc? We’re not allowed to know /s
Anyway this turns only absurd if it referred to the exact pole, geographic or magnetic, but not from the continent as is.
Baby don’t hurt me.
Are kids today so Vine-brained they don’t understand headline syntax? The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica.
If you leave Antarctica, you’re heading north. Is it North of Antarctica toward Australia, South Africa, Patagonia or some other northerly direction from Antarctica?
That’s the ambiguity inherent to the headline.
Where else would you succinctly say the Weddell sea is?
East of the Antarctic peninsula.
Anyplace off the coast of Antarctica is, by definition, north of it. But the Weddell Sea is a specific area of the Southern Ocean.
Headline syntax sucks.
Yeah, you’re right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weddell_Sea?wprov=sfla1
The entire Weddell Sea is just north of Antarctica. That’s where the Weddell Sea is. The problem is that everything near Antarctica is just north of Antarctica, including things on the complete opposite side of the entire continent. It’s just a way of saying near Antarctica that sounds like you’re giving more information than you really are.
We all probably understood that’s what they meant but it’s funny and not super clear. “The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica.” or “The Weddell Sea near Antarctica.” work much better.
“off the coast of” is the phrasing I would have used. I’ve honestly never heard of the Weddell sea until just now.
For further clarification:
The Antarctic Peninsula(the long bit sticking out) is the furtest part away from the south pole in the antarctic and is thus the northernmost part, and is generally considered to be the “north” when using cardinal directions there. The Weddell Sea is off the coast of the peninsula.
And is part of the southern ocean, to make it real clear
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They must be thinking in Mercator map instead of Globe.
TBF it’s also south of the Arctic Ocean.
