Hazard spot
Drake Passage: Severe storms
Drake Passage: The passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica lies in the path of the depressions. Two days without a gale already counts as a window.
- Cause
- Severe storms
- Main season
- all year
- Position
- 58° 30,0' S 062° 00,0' W
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Drake Passage: how the place works
The passage between Cape Horn and the Antarctic Peninsula is some six hundred miles wide, and the circumpolar current pushes the whole water mass of the Southern Ocean through this gap. Gales are the rule, not the exception, and the water temperature is near freezing.
Drake Passage: what breaks there
Structural damage and capsize are the real scenarios, and drift ice is added. At this water temperature what counts in an incident is not the value of the boat but the time to rescue.
Drake Passage: what this means for your policy
Antarctic voyages are excluded from standard policies. Anyone planning the passage needs an express special agreement, and that often still excludes ice contact.
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