Atlas Obscura Releases Podcast About My Time in the Doldrums
PublishedJune 14, 2024
I, Bernie Harberts, did not use generative AI to write or illustrate this article. Spell check and grammar check, yes. AI, no.
What’s it like to float alone for a week in the Doldrums, one of the remotest stretches of ocean on planet Earth? This week Atlas Obscura released an interview I did with co-founder Dylan Thuras about my experience exploring the Doldrums in my sailboat Sea Bird. You can listen to the interview here.
The Doldrums: that place made famous by the “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere” (yes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge spelled it that way when it was first published in 1798.) Remember that line, “As idle as a painted ship, Upon a painted ocean.”? Yep. Same Doldrums. (Google Maps photo)
Atlas Obscura is the #1 Apple podcast with 17 million listeners
Here’s a short video I put together to give you a sense of what it’s like out there.
(#1 travel podcast, 17 million listeners)
Thanks, Dylan, and everyone at Atlas Obscura, for putting together such an amazing piece on the Doldrums
More on the Doldrums
You can read more about my time in the Doldrums in an article I wrote here.
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