Video: Crossing the Drake Passage

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.28.07 | 5:02 PM ET

My conversation with Susan Fox Rogers about Antarctica got me Googling places like the Drake Passage, the stretch of water you cross if you’re sailing from the tip of South America to Antarctica. Based on this short but wild YouTube clip of a ship rocking and rolling there, I’d never want to attempt it in a storm.

* Q&A with Susan Fox Rogers: Antarctica for ‘Dreamers and Readers’
* Environmentalist on Antarctica: ‘Do We Want This to Become Disneyland?’
* A Wild Rescue in Antarctica