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[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

most probably between southamerica and antartica.

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Are kids today so Vine-brained they don't understand headline syntax? The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We all probably understood that's what they meant but it's funny and not super clear. "The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica." or "The Weddell Sea near Antarctica." work much better.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

"off the coast of" is the phrasing I would have used. I've honestly never heard of the Weddell sea until just now.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Headline syntax sucks.

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you leave Antarctica, you're heading north. Is it North of Antarctica toward Australia, South Africa, Patagonia or some other northerly direction from Antarctica?

That's the ambiguity inherent to the headline.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Where else would you succinctly say the Weddell sea is?

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

East of the Antarctic peninsula.

Anyplace off the coast of Antarctica is, by definition, north of it. But the Weddell Sea is a specific area of the Southern Ocean.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

[–] lath@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Don't be too hard on them, they're new.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I'll have to use that one.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

TBF it's also south of the Arctic Ocean.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Expedition 22 got some sweet tech

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Of course they aren’t going to give the exact location. That wreck would be ransacked for scrap metal if it isn’t resting too deep. Like in Indonesia several WW2 shipwrecks have gone missing.

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