Imagine that you have gone out to sea and are sailing along a perfectly straight path, without turning anywhere or deviating even by half a degree. How long can you swim like this without bumping into land?
The exact answer to that question is 32 089 km which is three quarters of the length of the equator and more than one and a half times more than the width of the Pacific Ocean at its widest point.
Back in 2012, one of the Reddit users posted a map of the longest - as he claimed himself - journey that can be done by sea. It began off the coast of Pakistan and ended at the Kamchatka.
The idea sounded fascinating, but there was no rigorous scientific evidence that such a journey was really possible. And only last year an Irish physicist and an Indian engineer proved the correctness of this assumption by complex calculations.
The journey should start from Sonmiani in Pakistan and sail approximately southwest. If you choose the right direction and securely fasten the steering wheel, you'll follow the direction shown in the pictures.
