Atlantic Facts

Check your map! The Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal is farther East than the Atlantic entrance.

Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea while he drifted 1,800 perilous miles across the Atlantic in a rubber raft, battling starvation, thirst, sharks and storms. He later became the technical adviser for the acclaimed movie Life Of Pi.

On December 5, 1872, sailors spotted the Mary Celeste drifting in the Atlantic with nobody aboard. The ship was seaworthy, her cargo of 1,701 barrels of alcohol mostly intact, and a six-month supply of food untouched. The captain, his wife, their 2-year-old daughter, and seven crew had vanished. 153 years later, nobody knows where they went.