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Yes I've seen several similar sites showing ship or plane traffic these days, it's really bedlam around the popular destinations.
But 500 years ago there was far less traffic on the seas... except around England. Not only ships bringing booty from the empire, and shipping the undesirables out, but moving things like coal around the home island. Lots of traffic, lots of wrecks, lots of heroics, and lots deaths.
Oh, and lots of tragedies... like the money lost by the ship owners when it sank with all hands.
Of course that led to the founding of Lloyd's, but that's another tangent.
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