Can you believe there’s a horse graveyard in the middle of the ocean? 😱 It’s true — and it all goes back to the mysterious Horse Latitudes 🧭 regions around 30° north and south of the equator in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Back in the age of colonial expeditions ⛵ Spanish ships carrying horses to the Americas would often get stuck here due to a complete lack of wind 💨❌ With no wind, ships drifted helplessly under the scorching sun ☀️ for weeks, supplies ran low, and to survive, sailors had to throw their horses overboard 💔🐴… turning the sea into a floating graveyard. But why does this happen? 🤔 The answer lies in Earth’s global wind circulation 🌬️🌎. Warm air rises at the equator and sinks near 30° latitude, creating high-pressure zones that block cloud formation ☁️ and leave these areas almost completely windless 🌀 This combination of science and tragedy gave birth to one of the ocean’s most chilling names — The Horse Latitudes.

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