Tom Scott: Amazing Places

Swimming Between Two Continents, Debunked (2020x8)

Air date: Aug 31, 2020

Silfra, in Þingvellir National Park in Iceland, is where the Eurasian and North American continental plates are dividing. It's a crack in the earth where you can snorkel or dive between the continents. Well, sort of. As ever, it's a bit more complicated than that.