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Modern humans cannot easily fathom the degree of suffering and the lack of survival prospects for sailors in the age of sail due to the extreme environmental and physical conditions they faced.

“I have actually no idea how they survive. No idea at all how any human being could survive in with the equipment they had in the 18 simply unimaginable.”

Dan Snow's History Hit · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 52K views on this topic

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