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The SS Warrimoo: A Ship that Crossed the International Date Line and Equator Simultaneously
TLDR The SS Warrimoo made history by successfully positioning itself at the exact point where the international dateline and the equator met, allowing it to be in two different days, months, years, seasons, centuries, and hemispheres simultaneously. Despite controversies and lack of ship logs to verify the accuracy, the USS Topeka submarine later confirmed a similar crossing, placing them in different days, months, years, seasons, hemispheres, and millennia.
Timestamped Summary
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The SS Warrimoo made history due to a last second decision by its captain.
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The SS Warrimoo embarked on its last voyage of the year from Vancouver to Sydney with 32 passengers on board and experienced a routine navigational check halfway through the journey.
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The captain of the SS Warrimoo successfully positioned the ship at the exact point where the international dateline and the equator met.
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The SS Warrimoo was able to be in two different days, months, years, seasons, centuries, and hemispheres simultaneously.
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The SS Warrimoo's crossing of the date line and being in two different days simultaneously was initially forgotten for 42 years until it gained popularity through articles and magazines, sparking controversies about its plausibility.
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The SS Warrimoo's ship logs have never been found to verify the accuracy of their crossing of the date line, and the ship itself was sunk in World War I, while a hundred years later the USS Topeka submarine did a similar crossing to test the Navy's software for Y2K bugs.
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The USS Topeka submarine successfully confirmed their position via GPS while crossing the date line, placing them in different days, months, years, seasons, hemispheres, and millennia.
