>>21602661https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_ElcanoHe beats Vasco de Gama by 100x.
The first one to circunnavigate the world (Magallanes died half time). 290 departured and just 20 arrived after 3 years.
The Magellan-Elcano expedition (1519 - 1522), which completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth, started with 5 ships (Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria and Santiago) along with 234 crewmen (some sources raise the number of sailors to 247.)[31] Although Elcano had departed Spain aboard the Concepción, the return voyage from the Moluccas to Seville was made by the single surviving ship, Victoria, captained by Elcano.[39] Having sailed under extreme conditions, only 21 people arrived in Seville, the 18 Europeans and 3 Moluccans.
To complete the round-the-world voyage, they had to sail 69,918 km (43,445 mi)[40] After three years of rough passages, most of the sailors had died. A few made it back alive, but 147 men lost their lives, three-fifths of those who had set sail from Seville.[41] This figure is a reflection of the number of unforeseen events, difficulties and vicissitudes they encountered during the voyage. Fifty-five of those who sailed on the return voyage were deserters coming from South America on the first part of the voyage aboard the San Antonio. They had not circumnavigated the world because they decided to retreat to the Strait of Magellan. Others who returned would spend some time in Asia or Cape Verde, although they later managed to get to Europe; thus they also could claim, once they disembarked in Spain, that they had sailed around the world. In other words, in addition to the 17 sailors who arrived in Seville along with Elcano, more sailors would sail around the world, albeit later, and not in the same vessels.
And let´s not forget these dudes that navigated a whole ocean like a small lake.
