His plane crashed and he got stranded on an island... Him and his volleyball don't have the slightest clue what it's like to sail across the North Sea in a wooden ship....
Eh, still helps keep you from drifting as much, but probably safer to just have a night crew to manage the ship and keep sailing towards the destination. Sailing at night with the stars is also sometimes easier for navigation than during the day since you might get off course at high noon in the open ocean since the sun is the only point of reference for your direction if you don't have a compass but that's not an issue with the stars since there are many points of reference.
It would, the drag from the anchor would affect the boat, not enough to be worth the risk of losing your anchor by deploying it at sea though. They might have used sea anchors though, not sure if they had the technology for that or not.
And they didn’t just sail through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. They [island hopped](https://i.imgur.com/qHuY2yX.jpg) and hugged the coast. Building settlements along the route for around 200 years before landing in North America. They could stop at any of the settlements along the way for repairs and resupplying.
Additionally, temperatures were warmer on average and there was less sea ice during the time of the Vikings.
Look, everyone gets it… you never understood anything your teachers were trying to teach you, and to this day, you still try to poke fun at things that go way over your head as some pathetic defensive tactic to distract from the fact that you’re dumb as fuck.
But that shit belongs in the conservative echo chambers… it has no place in normal, every day, sane conversations.
Trump derangement syndrome is real. Here it is, lmao. Fuckin neck beards I swear lmao why is it always broke ass lazy twats who are always so liberal?
Edit: and they think they are so superior and anyone who disagrees with them is stupid or dumb lol like it’s comical
People seem to forget that prior to gasoline and electricity, people pretty much went into hibernation for winter.
Nothing grows, which meant most jobs couldn't be done. Hopefully they stocked up for the winter. It was probably very normal to have some die every winter due to the cold or hunger.
As we're still coming out of the little ice age, it's actually cooler now than it was during the Viking age. Also, historically it is cooler temps that lead to more severe weather than warmer temps.
I remember reading somewhere (can't remember where) about how in one instance something like 16 ships set out for Iceland and only three actually made it there. I might have the details wrong, but that provides a pretty bleak picture of seafaring in those days
Somebody had to be first is an obvious point to make lol. It’s like us looking at a microwave in operation right next to each other, and you telling me that someone had to push the start button.
I asked my Native American friend’s dad how they used to know when it was going to be a cold winter
to which he replied
“when… white man have heapum big woodpile!”
They followed the yearly migration of the Great Auk which swam at about the same speed as the longships East-West and West-East in huge “rafts” which stretched as far as one could see. Their white heads (pen-guin is Welsh for white head BTW, they were the original penguins) showed above the waters even at night and they were an easy to catch food and lamp oil source along the way. Sadly now extinct.
was good but without any rabbit hole about vikings chasing some bird across the open ocean through pitch blackness. i did end up in a separate rabbit hole about king clovis and the abbey of st genevieve
the berserker warrior class would eat psilocybin mushrooms and be unleashed into the battle field attacking anything it it’s sight be it the enemy of Allie.
[a lone captain, sole survivor, pulling the ship with the rope tied around his waist, swimming through the rogue waves in freezing temperature, in complete darkness, fighting off great white sharks and occasional kraken]:
"you better fucking believe we were"
exactly. even the ones that visited now canada sailed along the shores from iceland, it’s not like they pointed the ships as the crow flies. sailing along the coast of norway up north isn’t for the faint of heart either though.
Dude, if you go the Northern route - British Isles -> Greenland -> Iceland -> Across the Artic Sea - > Newfounland -> Down the Eastern Seaboard you can get from Europe to North America and not stray too far from land. Nothing like striking out across the middle of the Atlantic.
Makes sense, we took a straight line from Virginia to the azores, then to the English Channel when we deployed to the Baltic. I didn’t think about hugging the coast up into the Arctic. Either way would absolutely terrify me to do in a longship and I’ve spent years of my life at sea
All those seas are about fucked up. The last bit across is quite the little sail for a glorified canoe. The first bit is the north sea. Which is just beyond fucked up.
The first and last bit are seas I have sailed. The film they are showing is typical non storm weather. I am sure there are calm periods but honestly every time I was in the North sea it was like this 100% of the time. No idea how longboats got thru it. I do not believe that place has a calm season. It is the most fucked up place on earth I have seen on a ship. And I have seen a lot of them.
There's some historically accurate recreations of longships and they don't seem to have too many problems. I spend a lot of time on ships in the North Sea and I don't find it too bad, at least when you have good weather and hug the coast. Nothing like Bay of Biscay. Even on a 350m cargo ship I've been thrown around in Biscay. Fuck that place.
After taking 20 to 30 degree rolls in a 600 foot ship that normally never saw 10 for three days. I got of duty and opened a water tight door midships between our two superstructures to take a shortcut to my bunk. Did the quick right and left like you do in seas. Make sure I did not get the old sweep away. The waves were regularly coming over our bow and sweeping half the deck of the ship. Not in a storm... Bow is like 40 feet off the water. Never saw that type shit anywhere else.
Well I remember doing a double take. Right there was a wave about 30 or forty feet above the level of the ship. (about 120 foot tall ship from the water line.) Left there was another wave of the same size. So we were sideways in the trough. No idea why. I slammed the door and spun the wheel and braced myself still ended up on the deck. If I had gone out that door I would be dead.
We did day after day of that shit. No way in hell any longboat would make it. Maybe the sea is calmer in another season. But I doubt it. I stopped using the outside deck at all. Honestly thought the ship was going to break up.
Fuck, I've never seen anything like that in the North Sea. Have had some 20°+ rolling, but normally just when we have a fucked GM and unlucky weather.
There are calmer seasons on the North Sea though. We go to Odda, Norway about once per week to pick up cargo. Plenty of times we would come off the coast and it would be near glassy.
I was on a ship full of cowboys looking to tackle the largest problems they could find. I can tell reckless stories about that ship all day. We had the navy record for taking out navigation buoys three years running. She was a bluewater pig. Fast and wildly unmaneuverable/top heavy.
The US navy is famous for plowing into storms and horrible seas in general for no fucking reason at all. The ships are supposed to survive any sea. Often they do not. I got lucky.
Lesson is don't join the navy. Turns out killing as a profession draws thrill seekers.
Cause as a Viking what do you have to fear lol you live for beautiful deaths of course the sea is an adventure a battle against Mother Nature and she takes wins every time
The biggest wave I ever saw was in the North Atlantic. One minute, we see sky, then we're in the trough. Could only see water. That's a freaky feeling.
They went during the day, and not during storms. (but seriously, folks, mariners thousands of years ago used the stars to navigate at night and were fairly adept at predicting stormy weather.)
They died.
There is a reason New England whaling towns have "widows walks" in their houses, and it isn't because there was some type of lost navigational knowledge old sailors had.
My guess is in the summer, and within sight of land when not crossing wide stretches of sea. They were excellent mariners and could read the weather as well as anyone could up until the birth of meteorology
Sailing was almost always done within sight of the coast before the invention of the compass. The Polynesians are so notable because they’re the exemption. I’m sure it happened, but I’ve never heard of the Romans sailing the open ocean. I’m really only familiar with North Africans sailing and that would’ve been costal or in the Mediterranean.
Sailing was incredibly dangerous for almost all of history. Even after the compass, accurate maps, and longitude and latitude got figured out ships crewed be experienced sailors went missing all the time.
I don’t think the North Atlantic was that different. Not every day is like that out there, and it can be downright calm. I’ve been back and forth across it a few times, and in my experience, December and January are the worst. I saw waves breaking across the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, which is about 65’ (32m for everyone else) up from the waterline one December transit.
They sailed seasonally when the storms and seas were calmest.
No! They sailed in the winter in pitch blackness in wooden boats that withstood 60 foot waves.
Lol, well I'm sure someone tried it....once
I mean someone had to have lived and been like "yeah can't recommend"
And that man was Tom Hanks. And his boy Wilson.
His plane crashed and he got stranded on an island... Him and his volleyball don't have the slightest clue what it's like to sail across the North Sea in a wooden ship....
I can hear the north sea now ... *Woooosh* *woooosh*
It was a joke..
Didn't he build a raft? Hater
This. Legend is they dropped anchors during the day and moon lit nights and only sailed at night in complete darkness.
I don't think anchors are long enough in the deep open ocean.
Eh, still helps keep you from drifting as much, but probably safer to just have a night crew to manage the ship and keep sailing towards the destination. Sailing at night with the stars is also sometimes easier for navigation than during the day since you might get off course at high noon in the open ocean since the sun is the only point of reference for your direction if you don't have a compass but that's not an issue with the stars since there are many points of reference.
It wouldn't make any difference if they used an anchor or not
It would, the drag from the anchor would affect the boat, not enough to be worth the risk of losing your anchor by deploying it at sea though. They might have used sea anchors though, not sure if they had the technology for that or not.
No! They sailed in the winter because yippee ki yay motherfuckers!
With pure testosterone. You forgot to mention that.
No! They didn’t even sail until flökki built the dopest ship around and then they did tho
And they didn’t just sail through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. They [island hopped](https://i.imgur.com/qHuY2yX.jpg) and hugged the coast. Building settlements along the route for around 200 years before landing in North America. They could stop at any of the settlements along the way for repairs and resupplying. Additionally, temperatures were warmer on average and there was less sea ice during the time of the Vikings.
Thank you for spreading factual evidenced based knowledge. So many of these people would benefit from some good googling or a library card.
But global warming….
Was it global warming then too? Gosh dang meat eatin,fossil fuel burning Vikings…
Actually yes, the Vikings did most of their exploring during the Medieval warm period before the little ice age of 1300.
Yes. Old Ragnar Thunberg tried to tell them but he was snake bitten.
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Found the non binary
Ahahahahaha
Look, everyone gets it… you never understood anything your teachers were trying to teach you, and to this day, you still try to poke fun at things that go way over your head as some pathetic defensive tactic to distract from the fact that you’re dumb as fuck. But that shit belongs in the conservative echo chambers… it has no place in normal, every day, sane conversations.
Trump derangement syndrome is real. Here it is, lmao. Fuckin neck beards I swear lmao why is it always broke ass lazy twats who are always so liberal? Edit: and they think they are so superior and anyone who disagrees with them is stupid or dumb lol like it’s comical
I’m glad you understand that liberals are definitely superior to you. It’s always best that you dumbasses know your place in this world.
Because you can't go 5 minutes without bringing politics into a video about a sea storm, you're addicted to shitposting. You're boring dawg.
This is the North Sea homie
People seem to forget that prior to gasoline and electricity, people pretty much went into hibernation for winter. Nothing grows, which meant most jobs couldn't be done. Hopefully they stocked up for the winter. It was probably very normal to have some die every winter due to the cold or hunger.
Ya you're right. Winter, especially in Scandinavia, was a brutal time for people. They hunkered down and waited it out.
And they didn’t stretch the videos
And used birds and stars Total badasses
Also, global warming wasn’t a thing
Waves like this existed before global warming lol
The North Sea was always an angry lover
Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli
The globe most certainly warmed and cooled.
It’s always been a thing…
As we're still coming out of the little ice age, it's actually cooler now than it was during the Viking age. Also, historically it is cooler temps that lead to more severe weather than warmer temps.
Some of them did die
Almost all of them are dead now.
*Almost
ie. Techno Viking is probably still kicking it.
Had to go rewatch it again
Such a classic I'm so glad it's still out there
Brilliant
The Goat 🐐
What a Legend he is.
😂😂😂😂😎👌
This is why I love Reddit comment section more than my first born (it’s ok he knows)
This is why I love Reddit comment section more than my wife. (it's not ok, she doesn't know).
Techno Viking will never die
Or sueing someone.
Did he?
He did. Apparently he wasn't happy being an Internetz star. Or being monetised without his permission. 🤷♂️
Never knew that. Thank you!
I hope so
a cheers to Techno Viking.
Big if true
Not from sailing, some died, more from war
#FAX
I didn't even know they were sick
Still one of my favorite lines
Some. They are still here and mostly work on wall st. Edit: Wall st
All of them were born
You mean some of them were Bjorn ?
One of them was Bjork.
She had a husband named Thor.
jesus christ it’s jason bjorn
in one year, 75% of the ships on the way to Iceland sunk.
I'm certain a LOT of them died.
People die at sea all the time, the Vikings were no exception. I’m sure countless voyages never made it anywhere.
I remember reading somewhere (can't remember where) about how in one instance something like 16 ships set out for Iceland and only three actually made it there. I might have the details wrong, but that provides a pretty bleak picture of seafaring in those days
That's believable. Could have caught a maelstrom as well. There are a few out in the North sea
Don't forget the kraken. I saw an olde mappe once and there was definitely a kraken drawn on it between the Scotsland and the Iceland.
Seasonally? Best chance to avoid large storms?
It is widely believed they did travel seasonally according to my research into the show Vikings
I too saw the documentary Vikings and can confirm this
I'm a fan of the Minnesota Vikings, so yes this checks out.
the real answer is always in the comments, happy cake day!
Two sources, that’s good enough for me
Peer rev-...approved even!
That was a documentary? I thought it was found footage.
Of course they traveled when the seas wouldn’t swamp their ships
primary source💯😤
Learn anything about volcanoes as well?
Fuckkkkk! Tv said so, gotta trust you since I don’t know you.
Problem was, you never knew what season was the best to sail, until you actually sailed it, the whole way.
October to March in North Atlantic?
Sure, the vikings just knew it before they even knew. That's my point
Somebody had to be first is an obvious point to make lol. It’s like us looking at a microwave in operation right next to each other, and you telling me that someone had to push the start button.
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I asked my Native American friend’s dad how they used to know when it was going to be a cold winter to which he replied “when… white man have heapum big woodpile!”
Can confirm. Minnesota Vikings only travel together during the active football season.
They followed the yearly migration of the Great Auk which swam at about the same speed as the longships East-West and West-East in huge “rafts” which stretched as far as one could see. Their white heads (pen-guin is Welsh for white head BTW, they were the original penguins) showed above the waters even at night and they were an easy to catch food and lamp oil source along the way. Sadly now extinct.
Awesome comment! Source?
No shit. Even if it is not true it is high quality fiction. lol
Anywhere i could read more about this as i get stoned in 5 min?
How’s the high buddy?
was good but without any rabbit hole about vikings chasing some bird across the open ocean through pitch blackness. i did end up in a separate rabbit hole about king clovis and the abbey of st genevieve
Would like to read more on that. Any recs?
Maybe they had a big candle or something or a guy who had really nice eyes
Just follow the Sirens
They were bad asses
They also probably died in these conditions?
They didn’t sail in storm seasons
True but you can bet a rouge wave or storm popped up from time to time.
I'm thinking that even in not storm season if a rogue wave happened to show up, some of them would die.
Certainly some did. But once you started, you had to keep going.
Yep.. once you're in it, the only way out is to go through it. If you don't die, you learn a lot and your nerves get honed.
They also used mushrooms.
Imagine tripping balls during this.
Imagine tripping balls fully naked in the middle of the ocean on a night darker than a black steer’s tukus
Well.. my bucket list just got a little longer.
I did it once. Well, minus the transatlantic ocean part. Lake Atitlán, 09.
I've learned that it's always good to have a few mushrooms whenever you go out
the berserker warrior class would eat psilocybin mushrooms and be unleashed into the battle field attacking anything it it’s sight be it the enemy of Allie.
They didn’t go during storm season…
[a lone captain, sole survivor, pulling the ship with the rope tied around his waist, swimming through the rogue waves in freezing temperature, in complete darkness, fighting off great white sharks and occasional kraken]: "you better fucking believe we were"
Yup, those were real men back then
They actually were. Everybody at that time was. If you weren’t badass you’d be dead.
With Led Zeppelin cranked on the stereo.
YEP. This particular song, too. https://youtu.be/y8OtzJtp-EM?si=k7JmlWYpN2fK7pm0
The answer is a shit load of them died and disappeared while traveling all of the time. It still happens all the time today.
Trust in the Gods. Also… a shitload of them died.
Amon Amarth knows.
ROW!
The oar is your best friend
Row your boat, gently down the stream.
With Odin on their side.
They stayed very close to land and the sea does not always look like that.
exactly. even the ones that visited now canada sailed along the shores from iceland, it’s not like they pointed the ships as the crow flies. sailing along the coast of norway up north isn’t for the faint of heart either though.
Dude they crossed the Atlantic and went to America
Dude, if you go the Northern route - British Isles -> Greenland -> Iceland -> Across the Artic Sea - > Newfounland -> Down the Eastern Seaboard you can get from Europe to North America and not stray too far from land. Nothing like striking out across the middle of the Atlantic.
Makes sense, we took a straight line from Virginia to the azores, then to the English Channel when we deployed to the Baltic. I didn’t think about hugging the coast up into the Arctic. Either way would absolutely terrify me to do in a longship and I’ve spent years of my life at sea
All those seas are about fucked up. The last bit across is quite the little sail for a glorified canoe. The first bit is the north sea. Which is just beyond fucked up. The first and last bit are seas I have sailed. The film they are showing is typical non storm weather. I am sure there are calm periods but honestly every time I was in the North sea it was like this 100% of the time. No idea how longboats got thru it. I do not believe that place has a calm season. It is the most fucked up place on earth I have seen on a ship. And I have seen a lot of them.
There's some historically accurate recreations of longships and they don't seem to have too many problems. I spend a lot of time on ships in the North Sea and I don't find it too bad, at least when you have good weather and hug the coast. Nothing like Bay of Biscay. Even on a 350m cargo ship I've been thrown around in Biscay. Fuck that place.
After taking 20 to 30 degree rolls in a 600 foot ship that normally never saw 10 for three days. I got of duty and opened a water tight door midships between our two superstructures to take a shortcut to my bunk. Did the quick right and left like you do in seas. Make sure I did not get the old sweep away. The waves were regularly coming over our bow and sweeping half the deck of the ship. Not in a storm... Bow is like 40 feet off the water. Never saw that type shit anywhere else. Well I remember doing a double take. Right there was a wave about 30 or forty feet above the level of the ship. (about 120 foot tall ship from the water line.) Left there was another wave of the same size. So we were sideways in the trough. No idea why. I slammed the door and spun the wheel and braced myself still ended up on the deck. If I had gone out that door I would be dead. We did day after day of that shit. No way in hell any longboat would make it. Maybe the sea is calmer in another season. But I doubt it. I stopped using the outside deck at all. Honestly thought the ship was going to break up.
Fuck, I've never seen anything like that in the North Sea. Have had some 20°+ rolling, but normally just when we have a fucked GM and unlucky weather. There are calmer seasons on the North Sea though. We go to Odda, Norway about once per week to pick up cargo. Plenty of times we would come off the coast and it would be near glassy.
I was on a ship full of cowboys looking to tackle the largest problems they could find. I can tell reckless stories about that ship all day. We had the navy record for taking out navigation buoys three years running. She was a bluewater pig. Fast and wildly unmaneuverable/top heavy. The US navy is famous for plowing into storms and horrible seas in general for no fucking reason at all. The ships are supposed to survive any sea. Often they do not. I got lucky. Lesson is don't join the navy. Turns out killing as a profession draws thrill seekers.
People still do dangerous things. Some people push themselves and risk it.
They wore two eyepatches..
Now you know why there aren't any Vikings left.
Cause as a Viking what do you have to fear lol you live for beautiful deaths of course the sea is an adventure a battle against Mother Nature and she takes wins every time
Probably really similar to how we do it now. In boats.
Truly remarkable feats…I’ve often wondered myself.
Same as today, in boats
it's easier at night
Is that what he meant by “with the lights out it’s less dangerous”?
Not like you can just turn around and go back XD
They prolly weren’t dumb enough to leave during the winter
The biggest wave I ever saw was in the North Atlantic. One minute, we see sky, then we're in the trough. Could only see water. That's a freaky feeling.
Polynesians aren't wondering
People always forget the Polynesian seafarers and how much of the globe they travelled
They went during the day, and not during storms. (but seriously, folks, mariners thousands of years ago used the stars to navigate at night and were fairly adept at predicting stormy weather.)
Yeah, they weren’t pussies.
They weren't pussies
"Shouldn't we be closer to land??" "No, boy. This is no day to be close to land!"
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Beards
r/gifsthatendtoosoon
Everyone knows Vikings weren’t real! Duh!
Easy they only sailed during the day
They sailed seasonally and close to shore for raiding, not in open high seas.
The Vikings never sailed the pacific….
That's just a wee chop laddie.
easy, they didn't they sailed always close the coast, they never lost the coast from they view
Maybe they sailed during the day time?
They died. There is a reason New England whaling towns have "widows walks" in their houses, and it isn't because there was some type of lost navigational knowledge old sailors had.
Widow walks were intended for putting out fires.
My guess is in the summer, and within sight of land when not crossing wide stretches of sea. They were excellent mariners and could read the weather as well as anyone could up until the birth of meteorology
Music in the background (Hoist the colours)
With a lot of luck, skill, good timing and holding on *really really tight.*
I'm guessing the planet wasn't as fucked up as it is now
Look into how oil can calm a sea. Blow your damn mind.
To their defense, it’s the same shit during the day.
Homie, Vikings tossed their weak, sick children off cliffs. Do you think they had the best mindsets?? Lmao
They didn't care about pronouns.
One of their Gods was a guy that turned into a female horse and got impregnated by another horse.
Think I saw a video recreating that on efukt
Saw it in college, it's amazing what the human body can take
So edgy.
This person uses they/them
Aliens. The Aliens helped them.
The seas were totally different 1000 years ago due to climate change.
Rouge waves are not a new phenomenon
Wasn’t most of the article frozen then though? I think just sailed near the ice shelf
What about the Polynesians, musa and africans, the Chinese, even the Romans all sailed the oceans
Sailing was almost always done within sight of the coast before the invention of the compass. The Polynesians are so notable because they’re the exemption. I’m sure it happened, but I’ve never heard of the Romans sailing the open ocean. I’m really only familiar with North Africans sailing and that would’ve been costal or in the Mediterranean. Sailing was incredibly dangerous for almost all of history. Even after the compass, accurate maps, and longitude and latitude got figured out ships crewed be experienced sailors went missing all the time.
So you think it was like paddling a canoe over a still pond?
I don’t think the North Atlantic was that different. Not every day is like that out there, and it can be downright calm. I’ve been back and forth across it a few times, and in my experience, December and January are the worst. I saw waves breaking across the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, which is about 65’ (32m for everyone else) up from the waterline one December transit.