Dan Snow's History Hit - ENDURANCE22: Dan's Diary #01

Episode Date: February 11, 2022

A little update from Dan on where he is and how the journey to Antarctica is going!If you'd like to learn more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad-free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe today! To download the History Hit app please go to the Android or Apple store.

Hi everyone, it's Dan Snow here. I'm currently about 45 degrees south. I am halfway through the so-called Roaring Forties, which is meant to be on the roughest stretch of water on planet Earth, but it's been kind to us at the moment. We managed to skirt past one giant storm, a storm that if you look on the weather map, you'll see almost touches South Africa all the way down to the Antarctic continent a giant storm a thousand miles wide we managed to skirt around the north edge of that and we're now nipping south between that storm and the one following afterwards this part of the world just sees a series of swirling depressions that go right around the bottom of

the world right across the southern ocean with nothing to break up their momentum. We're doing around 350 miles a day. So currently we're expecting to reach the ice on Monday, Valentine's Day, February the 14th, which is the day before Shackleton's birthday. So hopefully that is a good omen. But in between us and the ice at the moment, we have got a big storm. We've just been told by the meteorologist on board that from saturday morning we're going to have waves up to five meters and winds gusting to 40 knots so pretty punchy everything on board is lashed down because

equipment damage things sliding about and smashing into each other it would be devastating for the journey i'll send another update from the storm, if it's dramatic or when we get to the ice. The temperature, by the way, is dropping. It is chilly out there today. So we're expecting to see the first few detached icebergs in the next 24-36 hours. More coming up, folks. you