The Flat Earth Debate Debunked in 10 Minutes by a Real Offshore Navigator

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Could we talk about something to do with flat earth here at the end? Would that be okay for a second? Like I'm very very supportive of people going through their own thought process, right? If you're looking online and there's loads and loads of people telling you particular stuff in the end, if you keep listening to it and listening to it and looking into the details and things are kind of offered up and offered up, in the end you can go like, well, that must be how it is. It's just that must be how it is. Let's just have a look at this. This device here is a Samsung S9 tablet. You can go and buy it at the store for like a couple of hundred, right? And it has navigated across the Atlantic Ocean. I set off from France on the 1st of April. No joke. And then we had to go down down down past Bayisque, Spain, Gibralta. We hove two, actually hove two, hove two uh off Gibraltar and then we went underneath the uh Azors because there is a weather system that sits in the middle of the Atlantic. I don't think anybody that believes in fat flat earth would have a problem with that. In the middle of the Azor's high there is no wind, right? That's you could you could prove that by going there by flying over it by phoning somebody in the Zors and going is it windy? Okay, we went down and around that and then up. We got stuck in all that yucky weather where we were going round in circles. That's when we were lying a hole. We came out of that and started sailing in that strong following sea. We got issues with the engine.

[00:01:29]Dealt with that. And now we are going to we well we have already approached the Canadian coast. Okay. So clearly when I am away from the land I cannot see the land. That's kind of like a a basic, right? So I must be using some methodology to find my way here. It's not divining. I'm not like that. Now, at the moment, we can't see anything on deck, right? We can go back up. We can check. Is there anything on deck? No, it's only fog. So we are going to do something in the next like two hours according to this which would be considered witchcraft really before the '9s for most for most domestic users for most people doing it on their own boat even commercial users on ship were not using um GPS very much before 19 19 1990 right we are going to enter Lunberg outer harbor between this very real island and this very real peninsula. We are going to nail that gap. If we get our measuring tool, that gap is 1.7 mi wide. In terms of how close I could get to it, it's 1.5 mi wide. So, after a 4,000mi journey across the Atlantic, coming from Sherborg, exiting through their onem wide exit point out through the outer defenses at Sherborg, we have lined up this boat by hook and by crook for 30 days until we are going to enter through there in the fog. Now, let's not get into exactly how this works. I don't know quite how far the conspiracy goes with um flat earth, but like GPS in your car. If you don't know where you're going, you're happy that GPS in the car, but you could say in the car, well, it's signals from towers. Got it. There's no towers out here. Okay.

[00:03:27]Well, you'd say, well, there are ships that are providing the signal. Okay.

[00:03:31]Okay. That's kind of where I wanted to go with this. How do ships get from where they are to where they want to be? For hundreds and hundreds of years, things have been delivered across oceans. People have journeyed across oceans on ships using very traditional equipment. Right. So, at the back of this boat, although it's a very modern boat, we have right here Oh, with water on it. Lord, that's terrible. We have Oh man. There we go.

[00:04:04]One, two. Right. Stanton. Okay.

[00:04:08]Obviously, I got to deal with that leak.

[00:04:11]The Sexton is a piece of equipment which is a little bit more complicated to learn, but this book 1912 is here on board this vessel because it's a book that was trusted by loads of the guys whose books I read on my podcast, The Mariners Library. So, they learned from this book and then they went around the world themselves. But you could get a more modern book, something like this, will tell you how to do it electronically. But if we get a more modern book, I think there's one here.

[00:04:40]Oh, these guys out here on the Grand Banks on these schooners. People don't celestial navigation. Okay, this is a lovely book. And it's more kind of like um for people who love navigation, but navigation in the end comes down to mathematics, right? It's like you could even if you were like, "Hey, I really don't believe in the the world is a a globe. Got it. Okay, no problem." That's your right to understand that. But you could buy a sex off of eBay or whatever, you know, a yard sale. You could read a more kind of modern book like this or the Royal Yaching Association does another one of these called the Ocean Master and they teach it in there. you go and do that course and then you would have the skills to use a saxant like this which is a real world you know it's made of real metal it's got real glass prisms you could take that and you could do something that people have been doing on boats but also across the surface of the world for literally hundreds and hundreds of years everything that's on a map that you use that was put onto the map before 1990 was confirmed in that position by somebody with a sexton. Now, you could say, well, there's trigonometry points if you're in these theodolytes help you get height.

[00:05:54]Absolutely. But that only works because they know where those points are. Okay, cool. All good here. So, we're happy that you can use a saxant, you can use your own eye, something in your hand, and mathematics, and there can't be a trick in it because ships get from where they were to where they want to be using it for hundreds of years.

[00:06:16]All astro navigation relies on spherical trigonometry. The difference between spherical trigonometry and planer trigonometry is that if you have a triangle which is in a flat plane the interior angles cannot exceed 180°. But if you get yourself a ball, any kind of ball or an apple and draw a triangle on it, the sum of the interior angles can exceed 180°. So none of that celestial navigation works. All the celestial navigation which allows boats to navigate between point to point and all the celestial navigation which allowed every single thing that's on a map that you might use from day to day to be accurately mapped. All of that is off the table if you require people to use planer trigonometry. So if you are somebody who's like, "Hey, wow, I I'm thinking maybe this is a whole load of You've got a kind of stress in the background like why is everyone lying?

[00:07:18]What's going on?" No problem. Go and get a book on Astronav and fix the position.

[00:07:24]And if you're happy that actually, well, you do have to use non-planer trigonometry to make this work. The way that this $400 WSIT is doing what it's doing, is because people using that kind of technology, that kind of stuff, puts satellites up above our ball. And those satellites are the only thing that could possibly have been sending that tiny little consumer grade thing that it is the signal that's allowed it to travel all the way across the ocean. So I say this video is not to push anybody down or to say you're wrong. It's to say, "Hey, I see online once in a while these things come up. You know, people are going to Antarctica to try and prove the world's flat. They're doing all sorts of experiments, taking pictures of ships at sea, which is ironic cuz the ships themselves are using, you know, non-planer trigonometry to go where they're going. And you're watching them saying it's a flat plane. But anyway, go and learn a bit more about spherical trigonometry. Go and learn a bit more about um celestial navigation. And then um it will make more sense to you how I'm able to trust my life to the fact this little thing is going to take me in through this gap performing a miracle which would have been beyond the understanding of most people. Well 40 years ago 100 years ago it would have been witchcraft.

[00:08:49]We moved on to having GPS because we had a problem with this kind of situation. But amazing people worked out how to voyage across the surface of this planet. This going to be the end of this first part of our story of getting Osprey into Lunberg. Next one we'll we'll shoot the needle here, get through the gap. If that goes okay, if the world really is a ball, then uh we'll get into the inner harbor and we'll get um the boat alongside the dock. We'll do it in two shots. Um see how it how it all how it all works out.

[00:09:24]So speak to you soon. Cheers.