Nathan Radke

You had people on CNN talking about black holes and wormholes and monsters.

Yeah.

And it's because there is something just so wildly unsatisfying about something disappearing into the ocean.

And yet it's a tale as old as time.

Yeah.

And it happens like very frequently.

Look at how stubbornly the idea of the Bermuda Triangle remains in our imagination.

Like all of these things stick around.

But of course, there's all sorts of mundane reasons why a ship might go missing in the ocean.

You've got, I mean, weather, you've got navigation issues, you've got maybe an unseaworthy craft, you've got mutiny, like tons and tons of reasons.

Don't forget about the pirates, Nathan.

Don't forget about the pirates.

Never forget about the pirates.

But when we don't have enough information, because again, they've just gone off to sea and over the horizon and disappeared.

Obviously in those situations, our imaginations kick into overdrive.

I mean, think about those old timey maps that we used to make.

What did they always feature on the edges of the unknown sections?

Serpents, a label that says there be dragons.

Exactly.

So you go this far off the map.