Show SAME AS RV IN AD pacific journey journe made on raft dr thor heyerdahl 32 year yea ro old norwegian and zoologist had a theory that the first poly n es fans were blue eyed blondes w who ho floated over to their pacific islands from south america on rafts in about the year A D what he did about proving that theory now i is history he and a party of six men built themselves t primitive raft of bamboo and balsa wood climbed aboard and set themselves adrift at callao peru exactly days later the scientific group drifted acho ashore re on their raft the kon tiki at barola reef in the archipelago center of their target they had used no motors oars or sells their only means of propulsion on the 4 mile trip had been the humboldt Hurn boldt an and d south equatorial current that said cald dr heyerdahl as ai he be landed in san francisco en route to norway provided indubitable proof of the veracity of 0 his theory the fact that we made the jour ney demonstrates it could have been done around A D when the polynesians were first populated he said eald expert navigators said it t be done that the balsa balia wood would sink that it was impossible but it he related that the current and wind sometimes carried the raft as much as 71 miles a day sometimes only 9 miles but that we always moved westward the raft was 45 feet long and IS 18 feet wide a virtually infinitesimal craft on which t to cross the tha vast sweep of the pacific With true scientific objectivity the men ate a little of everything tha that came their way wiy during the course of the journey fish small crabs that walked on the ocean seaweed and plankton plankton was described as ai a aerni n sea life both ant animal mal and vegetable which was like shrimp paste cost of the expedition es estimated ti bated at was financed by dr hey erdahl through funds of his ci own n and and by borrowing money |