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Rounding cape horn v's panama canal

BrokenArrows · 2008-09-30 00:39:56

Was reading some stuff today and found out that almost 30,000 people died in the 34 years that the panama canal was under construction. I was just wondering if there were any figures on how many ships were wrecked and sailors died each year trying to round cape horn?

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30-09-2008 1:39am

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BrokenArrows

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Was reading some stuff today and found out that almost 30,000 people died in the 34 years that the panama canal was under construction.

I was just wondering if there were any figures on how many ships were wrecked and sailors died each year trying to round cape horn?

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