“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe – and rightly so,” Alfred Lansing wrote of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 voyage across it in a small lifeboat. It is, of course, the Drake Passage, ...

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A mission that will investigate the potential habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system — Jupiter’s moon Europa — has lifted off.

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And for ship captains, it’s a challenge that needs to be approached with a healthy dose of fear. The world’s strongest storms The Drake Passage can see waves of up to 49 feet.