Terrapiattisti in Ustica, the couple who wanted to reach the end of the world

They deny that the earth is spherical. And to prove it, they decided – in total confinement – to get to Lampedusa. Too bad your journey took place interrupted earlier, in Ustica, where they ran the risk of shipwreck. To tell the story of a couple Venetian Terrapiattisti an article of The impression. Initial mission objective? Set sail from Termini Imerese to Lampedusa, which they consider the end of the flat world. Their journey, however, ended in Ustica, where they arrived in a boat, tired and thirsty, having taken the wrong path and risking shipwreck.

From here, the two were escorted to Palermo and placed in preventive quarantine for fifteen days on board his ship. Escape attempts are futile: the two are monitored on sight and manage to return home, legally and by land, only when measures imposed for containment the coronavirus loosens (your ship is held in port, ed).

The funny thing is that they orient themselves with a compass, an instrument that works on the basis of the Earth’s magnetism, a principle that they, as flat-earthers, should reject, he said. Salvatore zichici, the doctor from the Office of Maritime Health of the Ministry of Health who found himself handling the matter from his garrison in Palermo.