Herman falls overboard and is nearly lost at sea, being as the raft cannot be stopped or turned back.
While passing by the Galapagos Islands, the ocean currents threaten to take them off course, but favorable winds and currents bring them back. The crewmembers discover that the ocean is full of fish and strange creatures, one of them a whale shark that comes to visit. A few days later, the weather calms down and they proceed onward at a good clip. The voyage starts out rough as the landlubbers learn how to handle the raft in high seas. Working as a team with Herman, Thor breaks through all the roadblocks and succeeds in building the raft, christened the Kon-Tiki, and launching it within his time window. The necessary green balsa logs are not accessible during the rainy season.
Governments demand much paperwork and are sometimes reluctant to help. Problems arise all along Thor's quest to build the raft. A sixth crewmember, Bengt Danielsson, joins as the raft is being built in Peru. By letter, he invites Knut Haugland, Erik Hesselberg and Torstein Raaby to join, and they all accept. He meets his first crewmember, Herman Watzinger, while in New York City. Through determination and his natural skills with people, Thor finds the financial and official backing for his adventure. Thor decides that this is a fine idea and pursues it. One of his critics snidely suggests that if Thor thinks South Americans sailed to Polynesia on rafts, he should try to do the same.
Thor has committed the cardinal sin of stepping out of his area of specialization. Had people from South America, 4,000 nautical miles away, taken advantage of the trade winds at some remote time in the past?Īfter writing a full presentation of his hypothesis, Thor tries to bring it forward in New York City, where his ideas are rejected without examination by the scientific community. While on a zoological expedition with his wife to the island of Fatu Hiva, they discuss the constant trade winds that blow from east to west, Thor's first piece of the puzzle. H.Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian zoologist, explains how he develops a theory on how the Pacific islands were originally settled from South America.
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