The Tangaroa Expedition (The Kon-Tiki Expedition) 2012 Documentary

the year was 1947 the year of the kontiki expedition tohe Dahl was about to become famous the world over as an explorer a scientist and a navigator that historic voyage came to an abrupt end when the ocean hurled the primitive raft up onto a reef in the South Pacific but this was no failure from every point of view it was a triumphant success half a century later another enterprising Norwegian torger he grew started to compare hair dolls original notes with some newly discovered sketches of early navigation he shared his findings to Olaf tore hair dolls grandson the idea for a new contact was born they would call it after the polynesian god of the sea tan Tyrone centuries ago the coastal people of Peru and Ecuador discovered that balsa wood was the ideal material for their rafts and fishing vessels in those far-off days the trees grew in profusion throughout the great forests between the Andes and the Pacific today those forests of all but vanished to make room for man-made plantations and settlements and with their disappearance the rivers have started to dry up as well today Bossa trees are cultivated on plantations to get the logs they need the curve the Tangaroa must persuade one of the largest timber producers in Ecuador it's not difficult this is precisely the region tour here they are visited to find his balsa wood for the kontiki III system una mejor manera dr. Sidman Herstal in their heart a heart today windrow Xu atria sultan Matt Theriault cos so they add a stir stir spoken I am Natalie DeMuth there's the stirrer and this - just Ocampo contiki they were challah the lightness and buoyancy of balsa wood make it ideal for raft building it's at its best when the trees are six years old after that the quality gradually deteriorates Tangaroa will be larger and carry more weight than kontiki core tests must be taken before the trees are cut down to check the quality of each individual log or deck on martial skill on to level it Shawn are you good now on ski boot as their master of all it ain't no Valley C 1801 aviation Scott Piedra boss's daughter and Kentucky civilian League slaw love Dylan divisional Ginga and it's also Sierra team or Eva ting good come on you fall oh yeah the Moodle far cherry Staubach you fantastic you can beat that done sighs nothing so Adam sighs no sighs met with you at the heart meat stock ha it soaked in the sick sadly metal nor dr. Wallace is pleased ocular stiller suit Assam Romani Lahab on tour hair doll was able to float his logs all the way down the corridor river to the ocean the immersion in freshwater at this stage protects the balsa wood from ship work when the logs are exposed sea water later on the people of this region still remember the excitement when the logs for contig you were floated down the river all those years ago today 60 years later the water is far too low for the journey to start here the logs will be trapped on the sand banks just below the surface this time the timber will have to be transported by road to a place downstream where the waters deeper at the little town of Vince's halfway to the ocean at last the logs can be put to the test in the water Oh the truly daily assess token on safety fleet laughter so grasshopper what is it truly at this stage armed guards provided by the equatorial Navy take charge of the operation it'll be two more days before the logs reach the ocean from here they must be transported from Gaia keel in Ecuador across the border to kayo in Peru where the raft will be constructed back in 1947 kontiki sailed from this same port of cayenne tohe dal had calculated that the Humboldt Current would not prove too much of a problem before he had the chance to take advantage of the Western equatorial current that would carry him towards Tahiti even in tour here last time the Peruvian authorities thought it would be much safer to build kontiki inside the naval ship gun now they're happy to offer the same protection for Tangaroa but this time the raft will be built on the key side not in the water captain beyond acrylic and first mate even lotin fly in from norway to play their part in the construction of the raft most of it dead alien they're mainly down there they're negative a lot the plan had always been to start the voyage on the 28th of April the same day that kontiki set sail this will enable them to chart how anger OA was progressing day by day in comparison to its illustrious predecessor to manage this Tangaroa must be fitted out in just five weeks to give the raft a chance to sail as planned the shipyard assigns five extra men to help with the construction as a gesture of goodwill they've decided that the last member of the Tangaroa crew will be a South American Roberto is chosen for them by the Peruvian Navy it's not enough just to copy the techniques of coastal Indians from a thousand years ago they must also try to understand them most important of all will be the rigging and steering gear for Tangaroa captain Briana is a world authority on ancient sailing craft by working with replicas of Viking ships he studied the methods of the Old Norse seafarers who used a very similar type of rigging up okay okay yeah yeah okay rocky pocky topple over however using bamboo for the boom will be an entirely new experience for them all there are funny can look me and I have throat I know oh I sent emali for the mucus ting Gautama three Ella it's April the 28th the sheduled day of departure and Tangaroa is ready at last the 18 ton vessel takes to the air before being tested on the water I lasted if thus Claude hey Brian lucky fraternity rig put her collaborative on the desk personal really hard there are feeble a little bit I am anxious yes to reporting on the water and I'm began to sail with a raft for Stella brother nothing to report I'll think of a concern and the sister Venera good first of all for me it's going to be a great adventure I feel that this is one of the greatest days of my life really my son is repeating an adventure undertaken by my father in a way I'm a little envious but I identify myself very much with my son now I'm not not afraid not not not not worried but a little bit excited I'm gonna be giving the more sprouts no oh do you read oh yeah hey Georgia or the Alpha problem is no I was just open off so that depth none of the horror on somebody so let's get over ever leave a grab the whole little movie fix photo please they agree you the original kontiki had drifted North with the Humboldt Current before reaching the equatorial stream which would take her in a westerly direction Tangaroa will try to cut a corner and find the shortest way across the Pacific but in fact they spent the first few days drifting north just as kontiki did a little bit seasick so I just have to check the horizon once in a while like that's a thousand years ago seafarers use balsa wood rafts to transport their goods up and down the South American coast but the knowledge of exactly how they did it has been lost in the mists of time ancient drawing that seemed to indicate that the rafts were steered using adjustable center boards or guara which was slotted in vertically between the boss and logs the interplay between the Guara boards and the sail should determine the direction and stability of the raft it's a difficult and demanding skill that the crew have yet to master one serving will start a hairpin it some are tall for chic discrete remote or Marco's already handling on finding the direct society with pen dog money hard 3m on outdoor cannellini ready book boy oh hey oh no no no touch the fingers that hook hook make them robots using it good lift of the bits it's not sinking now you can see what happened can we see the changing of the course do you wish for huh beautiful dreams we kept opinion oh there's no such I'm Sami from a snowboarder we wanna open opinion gradually the raft swings round towards the West for the first time the crew will be able to test how the sale and the Guara bores function together huh okay tall fat moonwalk we have speed coming up little by little ah we are changing course little by little - what's all this charge so Polynesia the South Pacific East over 165 West London - yes Collier that's it it all out the circle are don't get the sense there for mere solve a minibar the crew have calculated they'll be at sea for a hundred days that means one loaf of bread every second day fruit vegetables and some dry rations donated by the American Navy just like Kentucky in 1947 in reality they have enough food for 70 days only the water supply will last for a hundred they base their calculations on catching enough fish for at least one meal a day to be honest I don't think we can have it anyway too big this is not like the card I've been fishing in the north this is something else but remember to keep the gear high yeah like that oh whatever I knew Dora okay there do it all baby walk y'all also do it although that's hard hello knowledge trouble it's big it's a pretty big funk it's not a super I'm on there nice boobs nice as long as he's lost haha but it's more fear than the ocean I know captain biana is getting worried about parts of the rigging will the ropes and center boards be able to withstand the constant battering of the waves there's only one way to make sure on Kentucky this was done by simply holding one man over the side by his feet if they saw shark he could be quickly pulled out of the water but so far the crew of Tangaroa have yet to see a single shock whoo laughs decides to take a chance and dive in the long Guara boards are made of the hardest wood available but even so they're sharing signs of wear and tear the relentless ocean is taking it to tone your dad yeah decide amigas the first time to do is to take up that one yeah one step and regulate behind don't got that problem what shall we do with this one specially the Allah decides to make adjustments to all the Guara balls he thinks they may have been set too low in the water but as soon as the crew make any changes immediately the balance is upset any actual bets we conferred no I understand approver names mayor Gaeta for don't matter yeah either guitar they go care okay drawing on his many years experience on Viking ships biana decides to set the mast a little further towards the stern this gives the crew a second chance to balance the sail the mast and the Guara boards it's a delicate and difficult operation so I'm going to go backwards then how to put water boards down and aft and up in the front horrible run a mega Roberta box on it okay name a bootable Oh No Oh only then go home hold on Camile convey of the uniform understand haha to the crews immense relief Tangaroa is heading westward once again they've been at sea for just two weeks and already one fifth of the voyage has been completed Tangaroa is 350 nautical miles or 650 kilometers ahead of the kontiki at the same point in her jaw at long last the crew are beginning to feel that they know what they're doing tangora is on the right course and sailing at a very good speed whoo prepare to hear it says that the record on Kentucky was 71 nautical miles in 24 hours yeah we we have that for the seventh day in a row means that our our raft is doing the kontiki record every day every day but when you take on the might of the ocean nothing is ever going to be eased the boom is broken and a rope has become entangled with the top of the mast if the sale is to be saved bianna must go aloft and try to release it we'll be late this time luck is on their side the bamboo is so pliable that the boom hasn't sheared off completely if that had happened the sale would have come crashing down the disaster for crew and raft alike it might even have been lost over the side lawyer has on work to do when they tested the boom during construction the owner thought the bamboo was so soft the three branches lashed together would be sufficient now he Andrew laughs decide to splice the damaged boom with planks from the broken Guara boards with luck this should distribute the load more evenly and even make the boom stronger far out in the Pacific with the only timber at their disposal it's the best they can do realize to say all right but there will be another night every boy's father wait-wait-wait maybe oh look at the color change yeah you will be busy tomorrow making food one of Ivan's most important tasks is to collect bile from the gallbladder as a fish that one in due course this will be analyzed in different universities near amok throughout the void tangora's had special test equipment hanging underneath the rock a thin layer of film which absorbs pollutants has to be changed every third week the aim is to track the spread of invisible poisons many of the man-made that can affect the fertility of fish birds and animal life once in the water the ocean currents can distribute them over vast distances after 45 days kontiki was halfway from Peru to French Polynesia on exactly the same day Tangaroa has completed two-thirds of the voyage if they can maintain this speed the crew will reach the nearest islands of the South Pacific in another three or four weeks this will be much faster than kontiki on a previous occasion whoo laughs went diving in shark-infested waters off the coast of Africa he's thinking about taking his chances once again on board kontiki they were visited by whales and sharks almost daily whenever anyone wanted to take a dip in the ocean they had to make sure there were no dangerous predators circling around but this time it's been different so far the crew of Tangaroa have not seen a single shark who love is busy hanging the leftovers from dinner overboard in the hope of attracting a few it's June the 20th the 54 days they've been making steady progress across the Pacific but now at last the ocean lives up to its name there's no wind at all only the current heats tangora are moving forward in a westerly direction else Adventist commune sister dead Wow over the map doing the record Erica windy record all time for tendrils la chambre au have a little chat with in the vomiting laughs god I met almond sister dance party Oh believe me rule I like the raft and the ocean have become accustomed to each other small fish have made their home under the balsa logs and shelves of Dorado attracted by this floating reef in the footsteps of his grandfather this is becoming Olaf's world his natural environment Lulla thinks he spotted something breaking the surface of the water a shark at last he prepares the underwater camera but the captain is having serious second thoughts the solid mahogany purchase only is through my Ovitz ya ha hallo domme be docile put the rod on terrazzo merit barking saw Monica dad for blonde creepy Brittany Kong with my other yes yeah it is too sir Oh asked our first akira me to another seminar no sky ah-ah-ah together for my life now husband chef Rob Albert ain't the whole truth there as we were talked about through her Mira Nagi Cinematographers plus a tourist or self-described rahoy the King nor the Kamiyama no sir ha ha Arisa cool Carmel so there is no service to false lover a number of products they are was before Midsummer's day and still there's no sign of any wind Tangaroa is virtually becalmed who laughs has prepared a little surprise huh I missed again what it is as the light begins to fade they're rare and solitary visitor puts in a second appearance sharp tastes the fish supper that's been prepared for him then vanishes this time for good next day to everyone's delight the wind is back the sea god Tangaroa has answered their prayers they can begin to count the days to their first objective the island of raro yeah in French Polynesia it was there that kontiki was thrown up onto a reef 101 days after setting sail from Peru Tangaroa has been quicker but by how much Tom Horne will also really sick it okay Kiki and the may so not trauma but attempting to make a safe land for kontiki drifted helplessly towards the coral island the crew just managed to send out a radio message before huge breakers flung the raft up onto a reef without Guara boards she was at the mercy of the ocean the mast and cabin were reduced to matchwood but miraculously the great balsa wood logs held firm the crew managed to salvage some of the equipment most importantly the radio transmitter within hours the whole world knew that they were safe and triumphantly successful the Tangaroa crew have become quite proficient at using the Guara boards to maneuver the raft but ahead of them lies the last and most difficult part of the voyage before charting a course through the many rocks reefs and islands that lie to the southwest biana decides to put their skills to the test by saving the raft all the way around raro eeeh ah well Oliver as Tangaroa approaches the dangerously side of the island they hear the ominous sound of breakers almost at once the wind dies down giving them no chance to maneuver Tangaroa close to the shore with the last and most difficult section of the voyage still ahead of them Gianna's taking no chances the decision is made to go ashore miss Malbec seventy days dude I don't hear quitter it looks as if the entire population of rural yeah numbering about a hundred or so is waiting for the longer shoreline some of them can still remember the arrival of kontiki half a century earlier for the crew of Tangaroa the welcome is just as warm please they walking the crew are about to meet a rather special man when kontiki reached the island in 1947 ronger was a nine year old boy I look this European gum indeed Milan at that time a large abscess was making him very ill with no doctor or medicine on the island he was expected to die but Knut Hoagland the kontiki wireless operator managed to make contact with an amateur radio enthusiasts in Los Angeles who immediately got in touch with a doctor instructions were passed back to Knut by Morse code who performed an operation on the boy and saved his life he finished this my F I this day day two zero zero six I rest the moment has come now they must face the ultimate test Tangaroa is much more maneuverable than her predecessor kontiki even so for any kind of sailing ship the waters of the tormato archipelago are some of the most difficult in the world in some parts the sea is 2,000 meters deep in others the treacherous reefs lie just below the surface as a result the currents are dangerous and unpredictable most sailing boats avoid the region altogether but beyond our proposes to steer the raft right through the middle okay I'm their equity owner ah that is what what is that so you love my work to sell her a pedicure dr. Davila i-23 analysis team in the SS in Mohawk flat new instruments on pillow bottom mr. Velas pattern over compressor in countless every other row maker at home because I know me mostly presentaion them spending I have Adobe devotion language where do you first something important do also any spending at the end of a week in which their skills with the raft been tested to the limit Tangaroa has emerged intact on the other side of the notorious archipelago at last they're within sight of their final destination riot II our friends and families that they last saw in Peru have been gathering here to welcome he tricked me go tonight for our some bezel on the ones mother fell for for cost Oh fork over till Ahava hit on the electric october UK legal your ability proto nova gear and a octi their controller we passed the furnace in female Tangaroa has been at sea for nearly three months the crew are about to spend their last day under sail before disembarking the adventure of a lifetime is nearly over no I great there some through the school area we had a sale Taylor area we are a comedy the diet regime to multiple or head frontal area our wacky attitude from Nevada for still of are dying eating up hot swapping reporter gonna follow my own motto silent film standard long net who and Samir beautiful that's to douse your honor then they'll interact fantastic he'll fantastic you get rich about this experience in many areas about our patients and to take the things more slow to live with this way of thinking that we are honest important we got to take care enjoy the OtterBox this is all them they're microwaves the eyeball lips L tell each other yeah you

Channel: Josep Svęnnan

Views: 968,298

Rating: 4.8132706 out of 5

Keywords: Olav, The, Kon, Tiki, Expedition, Tangaroa, Raiatea, French, Polynesia, documentary, Thor, Heyerdahl, film, doco, heaven, night, Norwegian, explorer, Peru, raft, norway, balsa, wood, english, subtitles, top, history

Id: 29waAjmbO2w

Length: 52min 28sec (3148 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 11 2012