How an 'Absurd Solution' Rescued Cook's Historic Voyage
Автор: Survival Instinct
Загружено: 2025-11-08
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In 1770, Captain Cook's HMS Endeavour struck the Great Barrier Reef and began to sink, 2,000 miles from the nearest friendly port. With water flooding the hold and the pumps failing , 94 souls faced certain death on an uncharted coast. Their impossible survival depended on a forgotten, desperate sailor's trick: a grotesque bandage made of an old sail, wool, and sheep dung.
But surviving the reef was only the beginning. This documentary reveals the true story of Captain Cook's first, secret voyage. We uncover the mission to observe the Transit of Venus in Tahiti , the bloody first contact with the Māori of New Zealand , and the charting of Australia's unknown eastern coast.
The voyage's deadliest enemy, however, wasn't the reef. After surviving the impossible, the Endeavour sailed into Batavia , a "graveyard of Europeans". Discover how 38 men —including the young midshipman who saved the ship —died not from the sea, but from malaria and fever in a desperate race to bring their world-changing discoveries home.
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