The Voyage of the Sarimanok 1986

at times like this I don't know who who's going to give up first the ship or the crew probably neither but it's uh patience has reached a terminal condition now this storm isn't going to let us just goes on and on and on we get a lot and it blows up again the seas are getting bigger we've been pushed South but the damp is the worst thing I think there's nothing left to a sailor than than getting wet I've been in a lot of storms but never in a craft like this I suppose we knew that when we set out everyone had an intelligent guess anyway that the weather was going to be bad but it's always season which has blown for thousands of years and now we've got a Norris storm if we do get through and I can only assume like go look at this one coming if I can only assume that we will then we'll have something Unforgettable behind us and uh and we can rely on the fortitude of this perhaps it carries through in whatever lives whatever we're doing and outside this completely crazy business this crazy business is Bob Hoffman's attempt to sail across the Indian Ocean in A Primitive native craft he aims to show that the ancestors of the people of Madagascar who originally came from Indonesia did so not a Scholars think in short stages around the Indian Ocean but directly across sailing in one of the great epic migration Voyages of History this is a bit of a commercial model when they'd start weaving it by hand it's even stronger the writer and sailor Bob Hoffman years of research into these ancient Maritime cultures has brought him to the southern Philippines with his friend artist Chico Hansen to study the methods of canoe construction that still survive in remote communities methods that made the Islanders of Southeast Asia perhaps the greatest ocean Voyages of all time your Lobster we're after today helper the only remaining evidence of a maritime technology that spanned oceans is seen in the way these Indonesian boats are built purpose which is completely mad some would think chasing whales in such a flimsy Contraption but it's a technology which hasn't changed in at least 500 years which must prove that the boats when they were first conceived are strong enough durable enough to follow the purpose they were designed for without having any changes made to them at all these people miles from Land hunting whale shark and the manta ray for food not profit and the way they build their Wooden Boats lashed together with palm fiber rope gives a vital clue to the building of the Expedition craft on the Philippine island of tawi tawi the vice Governor gives Bob Hoffman the birthday present this began four years ago in the dusty library of the royal geographical Society in London and at that time I didn't think I'd be standing in the middle of a forest in tawitawi watching a giant tree actually being cut to the ground in order to uh to make this whole project a realization [Applause] named after the bird fish messenger of Philippine Legend is the first ocean-going sailing canoe to be built in this region for hundreds of years working more from race memory and without plans the Filipino shipwrights shaped the Keel from a single log stability of the canoe depends on the specially crafted Outriggers Like A Primitive catamaran if any of these fragile struts should break the craft will become unstable and ultimately turn over they are vital to the ceremony sea worthiness as the crew will find out to their cost the sides of the hull are formed from planks following the line of the hollow Keel and held in position by thwartz lashed under tension with carbon Negra Palm fiber ropes Sarah manuk's 60-foot length will flex and move in harmony with the enormous Seas it will face in the Indian Ocean foreign [Music] still putting the finishing touches to the hull the launching of this unique craft captures the attention of the world's media and the interest of the Australian ambassador to the Philippines the launching is the first official assignment for Expedition photographer Don King and the only woman in the crew Sally crooked [Music] all right [Applause] I became involved in this voice because I saw an advert scribbling pencil on a notice board at the London School of hiding tropical medicine where I used to work they said the seventh century wrapped crossing the Indian Ocean or something like that but I applied anyway because I was interested in Madagascar and I wanted an adventure for ocean yachtsman Steve Corrigan sailing this craft will be a difficult challenge she's so beautiful she's floating well she's putting a lot better any of us thought would ever do and she's going to float all the way across the Madagascar but Sarah manuk is not going to carry Chico Hansen to Madagascar on the journey from tawitawi to Bali Chico the strongest and fittest of the crew becomes ill with hepatitis he goes into a coma desperately Bob beaches Sarah manuk and has Chico airlifted to hospital but within days he is dead When Sally manuk finally reaches Bali it appears the voyage is over before it has really begun but the following year when the southeast Trade Winds return Bob Hoffman with a larger crew and a refitted ceremony are ready but if the first of the new crew to join Bob Hoffman on Bali are the American Navigator Bill McGrath and boat specialist Colin putt from New Zealand for Bill it's the biggest challenge of his career guiding the ceremony across the Indian Ocean to the northern tip of Madagascar using only the sun and the Stars the charts compasses chronometers Sextant all modern instruments are sealed away under bond for use only in an emergency measures all emergency and Modern Gear are going in and you've got your last time check now who's got a watch on the crew all right anybody else in the walk yeah but one of these anybody ever watch for the right time that's the only beauty of it does anybody ever watch Mr McGraw please yeah I know it's a good joke but nobody's at the right time isn't worth a blast if you're navigating we're just setting one clock to uh GMT so that if ever we do need these we have at least one watch to uh help us with the time for navigation well uh Wally bought us an alarm clock and they're bizarre yesterday to tell us what time it is for lunch and so on and this morning I took it to bits and removed the minute hand so you can't use it for navigation lunchtime will be slightly variable but what the hell from the prime minister of New Zealand Mr langi he said let me extend to you and the people of Madagascar the greetings and best wishes of the government of the people of New Zealand this message of Goodwill has traveled many thousands of miles with a cruise courage and spirit I have clawed both our nations were founded by seafaring people this historic Voyage serves to remind us all of The Bravery of our ancestors I'm confident that the bonds of friendship which develop among the crew and the people of your country will contribute to Greater understanding and Good Will between our Nations your sincerely oh that's very nice I'll keep the black stuff fairly handy to you there completing the international crew are Australian Robin Davey a professional diver and Albrecht Schaefer a journalist from West Germany and unseen behind the camera to record the whole Voyage on film is Australian cameraman Peter Rogers an experienced sailor who will have to stand his watch like the others to maintain the Integrity of the Expedition Sally crook a nutritionist must select preserve and pack only the foods the original migrant voyages would have taken to Madagascar most of our diet will be rice of course which is still a staple diet of Asia and it's also the staple food in Madagascar and it came from Asia in in the migrations the kind of rice they have there is Paddy with water in the fields which they don't have most of the rest of Africa that's because their diet came from here their rice came from here and here we have some tarot which for a bit of variety and the cost of protein we've got dried fish and we've got some pork cooked in here and for vegetables we have a little bit of pickled vegetable but mostly we're going to sprout soya beans with vegetables and we have dried bananas Drive Tempeh which is soybeans again and vinegar and a few spices which if we don't have much protein we want something a bit interesting to eat so we can just put spices in the rice and hope that's enough for the Balinese it is appropriate But as Sarah Manuka is retracing a voyage of their ancestors it should be blessed in a Hindu ceremony [Music] thank you Mr elephant for um for making a special visit to uh to parang Bay because you know we have to get away very quickly a voyage of 4 000 miles lies ahead with the southeast Trade Winds behind them all will be fine but if the winds move round their ability to stay on course will be seriously hampered finally Sarah manuk slips its anchor rope and with an escort of the graceful pledang heads out into the long box Strait in the Indian Ocean for Madagascar foreign [Music] thank you up though [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh navigate to Bill McGrath plots a course that will take Sarah manuk Southwest and across the wind his long-range plan is to turn Northwest on the approach to Madagascar and use the current to make landfall at Diego Suarez the crews settle into the routines that will carry them through the months ahead I'll tell you one thing Sally it's inconvenient and it's labor intensive but there's a small consolation and knowing you can't do it on piano and Orient and you can't do it on your spikeman and Stephen 75. [Music] well I get a it's getting light and start the fire straight away and make tea and then make breakfast and usually I've been straight after that I begin making dinner because it might be a stew it takes a long time to cook I'm enjoying being on the sea I can't say I'm enjoying cooking that's the least last thing I wanted to do I'm a nutritionist but not a cook I'd like to be working on the tiller like I did last year about 50 degrees and it's hard to do which puts it along its path at about zero two two we're also used to compasses and modern methods of of pointing the ship by but here we have no Compass so we have to use this the shadow of the Sun and just that is our only indication to give us some bearing of where we're going yeah we put of course desired on this this piece of wood of course desired I'm just straight ahead and asked the Helmsman then to make the adjustment to put the shadow across the center of the guard in so doing this mere piece of wood becomes a true bearing a true compass it's simply the old Shadow stick that great captains used it long before them other captains didn't long before ships were built it was the basic way to tell Direction one big one it's hard to know what's happening to the Outriggers because the rock down just creaking away and I know it's chafing against the big arms if one goes then it'll set up a chain reaction and they'll all start splitting and then once the first one flies once it's given six inches or even less than the whole little go and we're without a rear which means it's absolute disaster for us foreign but it's probably all the fittings all the lashings are taking a strain and the only way you could check those are by beaching her somewhere and this doesn't look like a lot of beaches around here apart from the anxiety over Sally manuk breaking up there's the constant fear of being swept overboard the unseasonal storms pursue them and the deck house built to provide shade is no protection from the driving rain and spray prove those not on watch sleep on the deck house roof although everywhere on the ship is wet then the fear that has haunted Bob since Chico's death is realized Colin Pat is ill without radio they cannot ask for advice or assistance they can't go back into the wind and have few options in the direction that Sarah manuk will Sail even if they run for Christmas Island or the Cocos Islands these are tiny specks of coral in an Infinity of ocean 's condition deteriorates and so does the weather [Music] cold miserable nights bring their own measure of anxiety everyone on board knows that as sarimanuk is built entirely of wood and natural materials will not be picked up on a ship's radar unseen in the darkness they could be run down by a large freighter or tanker continues to rain last night was a bad one [Applause] how many Masters are even coming out from the Philippines and there are so many struck stresses all the structured about in a stamina winter where to begin last night one of the big arms cracked badly I noticed that when we're coming in about two o'clock in the morning in the rain and let's get these wedges together to try and stop it from cracking any further otherwise we've lost one of our Vital [Applause] oh this bed did all the engineering and structural wisdom aboard is not nearly as good as the lads who built it so we have a little meeting the sidewalks can be done you could make things worse bye by strengthening one place and weekly another there's an endless amount of things to be done there's there's always little odd jobs to be done around the boat and if you if you seek those jobs out you'll find enough of them you know whether it's patching the sale or or tying something down or redoing a lashing or checking some broken bamboo and the decking and there's just all kinds of little things and sometimes you've got the energy and the spirit to work all day on them and sometimes you just feel like taking a nap and reading a book but there's always things to be done I haven't been bored yet on this trip there's so much work to be done the ship has to be virtually rebuilt every day and there are still people reading books I can't believe everyone who's got a possible spare second picks up a book and starts reading so I don't find any difficulty in sharing a boat with seven men it's no problem they all they're all very polite gentlemanly and we don't bother about this you know we're gonna dressing and washing in front of each other just got used to it so no problem at all really it becomes obvious Harry manuk cannot take the constant pounding sailing south west across the wind and reluctantly Bobo does a change in course what's that heading bill well as you uh we're heading now yes indeed I certainly applaud your decision it's riding far easier going just as far yeah well I'm sorry about that earlier but I was just really worried she was you know we've got that bad split in the bad thing on and she doesn't go to Windward so uh but I'm I you know I wanted to keep on with the old plan of getting South but you think we'll be all right here what about our options well going north of Coco's in Christmas also means we're going closer to somata and we have more options in case we have any more breaking up with the rigging to run for shelter and get repaired right that's true that's true and the Seas up here you think there'll be uh we don't get the big heavy in southeast that we've got south from the south yeah well we'll it'll be delayed a bit longer we won't get the strong southeasterlies until uh much farther out and they don't develop either very far north very early they develop on North where we're going much later so it'll be just an easier run this way and there's a Steve point out a shorter run too get the safety [Applause] I've been worried at times I've been worried about the both whether she'll make it all right whether she'll stay together [Applause] I've accepted the fact that basically this ocean stretches forever but the boat is really pulled through well sorry Manuka is strong but the ocean is stronger [Music] [Applause] [Applause] there's sea show nothing but disdain last night three o'clock in the morning the ship being thrown out of the water like a lame duck up and down bilge full of water everybody damn I didn't think she would make it really The Strain was enormous incredible worse than Simon Nook has ever done just under bare pose no storms will set the seaters had it in his Mercy a crazy Storm from the Northwest moving around to the southwest and uh it went away this morning and there was enormous Relief by the crew because uh another night like that and I don't really think she would have kept up but now the sky is a nice puffy cumulus around 15 knots we're flying along five or six knots hurtling down these big swells and tonight's almost forgotten but I don't think anybody any any one of us aboard Simon will forget last night that was one of our blackest that I hope that uh well I hope we never get another one Collins condition stabilizes but he is very weak and still uncertain what's wrong I don't know it's something like malaria and it's a little bit like hepatitis but that's often a secondary effect of malaria so I just don't know decision is taken to seek medical help with the Cocos Islands a series of low-lying coral atolls 1500 miles west of Bali they unsealed the modern navigation equipment to get a comparative reading and ensure that they don't miss the Cocos also Bill McGraw is Keen to check the accuracy of his navigation by what he calls his Neanderthal instruments very consistent I think that confirms it Albert that all your shots have indicated the sun is now over the crest past noon time that the lowest altitude obviously our lowest angle is 34. that's clear on the left here's a good thing he's a very good Navigator and he's very precise and very responsible and yeah a lot of confidence no doubt latitude 11 degrees 55 minutes south longitude 107 degrees 18 minutes east using the watches set to Greenwich Mean Time and the Sextant Steve Corrigan obtains a fix on their latitude and longitude this confirms to Bill's great satisfaction the remarkable accuracy of his navigation he is out by only half a degree just when they think that nothing else can happen the Indian Ocean Springs another surprise and just before the midnight watch we're being slapped by some pretty heavy swells on the beam and the radipo started to break up we had two very large steering oars which gave us about three or even four times too much a blade in the water and it was the length of course that was uh there was the problem so we decided to chop a meter off and we hold this thing out going for it C which wasn't an easy job at all because one Simon OKO any ship and these conditions gets going there's no way you can slow them down or stop them to affect this kind of repair anything in the water is a problem despite the knowledge that Sally manuk cannot stop easily or turn around at all Don King volunteers to go over the site and guide the steering ore into position for everyone watching falling overboard is the greatest fear they know that if he slips he's going to be a long time in the water with only the sharks or company entire Horizon is covered in a sheet of gray over to the right there's a Squall which is actually rainy right behind us is a Squall that's raining there and all the way on our starboard side it is just rain rain bright sunshine and it's not going to last I suggest you get some black rice in calculate India and batten down the hatches baby because we're in for it the weather's another huge bits that I've got with the admiralty giving us lousy advice I mean the weather is has to be abnormal because otherwise nobody would sell this ocean certainly not the austronesian we've got eight people aboard who could not in fact light a fire it's not only just Sally it's the wrong selection of wood the wrong techniques of lighting a fire the wood that comes aboard is Driftwood that's all rotman has been wet for 15 000 years and it just will not lie it's a pain in the ass right now it is a thorough pain in the ass it's miserable it's rotten as I look at people's faces and going oh my God are we going to make it they keep glancing toward the life for us that's not the objective the objective is to get this bloody thing going she's being pushed to extreme limits I don't know whether she can she can last that much longer I suppose can it's not good to underestimate a ship but the the shrouds on the Masters starting to to part now and is it's one of those the strong uh wailing ropes it's a constant uh flexing throwing backwards and forwards and amazing as we are heaving down these seas and the ship has flung from one side to the other that'll have to be replaced we've got spare robe I'm just worried about the main doing the same thing the uh the small Lane that we've got I had to be taken down this morning that completely threw off all its boat ropes and ended up a floating rag so the lads had to get into that pretty early this morning to save it from the from thrashing itself to pieces and we'll Stitch out that this afternoon but I think the weather is really worse than so much that we won't be able to put it to put it back on again there isn't a dry part on the ship left anymore the Navigator built my glass stuff is completely soggy and it's only because he's got a good sense of humor and a lot of fortitude that he's not screaming with with frustration and I don't know how Sally carries on she starts to uh to lose it from time to time yesterday was a bad one but she pulled herself out of it everyone's just got us pull together as best they can and the bilge is full of water there's bucketing and bucketing goes on continuously day and night and it's an exhausting highlighting business just showing out more and while you're throwing it out it's coming in over your shoulder and we've got Colin Potters God knows he said he had a good night's sleep last night but the the other 10 nights he's been ill who must have been sheer hell for that poor man and that man is absolutely wet beneath the skin there's nothing there's nothing dry that is nothing harmonious about this ship but she just seems to push on and hold together everything is freaking creaking and rattling and slapping around and the Seas just won't stop but what can you do you just gotta hang on I suppose there's nothing left at least we're making Miles Ahead which is about the only consolation we have to preserve our sanity and we got a hot cup of tea which takes Sally and out to prepare and about two minutes for it to get cold and if it's not slopped out of the bucket on the way back to the people who are working at the back of this ship we have to run into caucus with uh with Colin uh certainly not being used as an excuse I'm determined enough and and stubborn enough to keep pushing this bastard through the water but if we have to call him with Colin then we'll certainly take the opportunity to relash and to try and get ourselves on a reasonable footing to to get back into the sea again for the next 3 000 miles God I hate to think of the next three thousand in the first 3000 are going to be like this oh you nasty piece of ocean well we have uh we started off with five sales two Mains two missions and one Storm still we've lost one main so far so we're taking it very easy uh it it means we take our missing down at night because we just cannot afford to lose one uh in any sport which means a lot of extra pressure on the crew and it's not like hauling up on a winch and just throwing out the one crew going up and Hauling up a sail it takes five six people for each sale change and full-on yeah it's it's not an easy craft to sell 1.5 on the horizon the Cocos Islands the crew's relief at citing these in daylight is edged with tension the entrance through the reef which almost surrounds the islands is on the North side and they're approaching from the south but their luck holds they are sighted and the Island's Administration sends a launch grateful for any little toe no no just just just uh just flash we have a have an injured crew man I have a sexual enamel has to be landed so we'll see from the rig there's no modern cruise I think we need more assistance but how about a psychiatrist yeah please send out the dirtiest that's in Neanderthal magic yes Colin Putt and the ceremony crew exchanged subdued goodbyes they respect his knowledge and seamanship and are going to miss him but they know he will now get the medical treatment he needs and will probably be airlifted back to hospital in Australia the Cocos Islands which are administered by Australia provide the crew of The Sarah manuk with the opportunity to replenish their supplies of firewood and replace the dried fish and other food stuff spoiled by the rain and to get fresh water gradually the fears and depression of the last two weeks fade they set out on the next stage in the hope that nothing ahead can be as bad as what they have already faced I started out in photography using just an econos taking pictures of the surf so I've always been oriented towards the ocean in action with my photography and so I've been dragging behind the boat a lot trying to capture the boat under sail from a distance in different lighting conditions and different moods and it's really been fun you know it's it's kind of cold when you get out there in the water but it's really a thrilling feeling to be dragging behind the boat at five or six knots it's kind of hard to breathe but it's a real thrill it's like almost like water skiing on another occasion when Sarah Manuka is be calmed in water over two miles deep cameraman Peter Rogers joins Don King to get some underwater footage of the boat suddenly the two photographers are joined by a baby fin back whale who comes out of the depths to satisfy its curiosity and stays with a Sally manuk for several days the water here in the middle of the Indian Ocean is so deep that against all expectations they catch very few fish to give variety to their diet and make life easier for Sally the nutritionist and reluctant cook my feelings are that Sally has a hard job on this vessel there's a lot of pressure she's the only female you know the guys can get together somehow and sort their problems out but a female on their own there's a lot of pressure with that damn fire you've got soaking wet firewood and trying to get a meal cooked in incredibly hard conditions so unbelievably hard conditions I think she's a champion on this side we're eating the same sort of food they would have eaten two thousand years ago and probably what they would have brought with them on this journey and of course they were Asian people and it was a long time ago but I don't see why Europeans shouldn't survive pretty well on this diet the only thing is that they're used to chocolate and sweets and convenience food and it might be difficult for them to do without but that's just what they want and not really what they need show all the requirements are going to be met with this diet [Music] [Laughter] foreign [Music] at the end of the day the navigation doesn't stop but it's just dead easy these uh the sun moon stars are clear signpost of whether or not we're going down the right track or not and all the stars are signposts you can look in any direction you want you see and use them all as seinfelds you can use the star ahead as the guide to steer or you can use the one exactly on your left side and keep that one on your left side so you can affect steering by the star on your left side or you can use any Star as a sign pose look what I find in my bed Sally flying fish could be a nice breakfast well how a bit bread then hey he liked each other yeah oh I'm bored in fact the meals have been excellent since we started out the meals have been fabulous it's the fish that we dry to recorded and smoked and dried on cookers to replace the whale meat in the Manta which was a tragedy that went wrong and was attacked by Blowfish I've never seen maggots um appear so quickly those blue pies must have been hanging in for centuries waiting for that rotten whale meat to arrive that was sad that that went because that had a flavor all of its own otherwise dried fish is pretty bland we want to make the Mars and make this passage as quickly as possible because the longer you're out here the more chance you are of getting hit by something bigger but not pushing it too hard so that we can keep the vessel in tank it's all very amicable we don't have arguments about it but there is a pressure to get to Madagascar for obvious reasons but there's also pressure from me to keep the vessel in one piece to me that's what it's all about keeping the vessel in one piece if we don't make Madagascar hell we'll make somewhere else but at least we'll make something despite the ever-present fear of being run down they welcomed the site of this the only ship they are to see in the entire voyage it changes course to investigate this strange craft obviously a relic of another age and then hurries away without making contact they are alone in the ocean once more we're just having a little discussion on bailing here and it's the one aspect of this void that just does not go away we can take a Dale sail repairs we can miss a meal we can miss the morning Constitution but the one thing the system never goes away it's always there so it's not just throwing a few figures around and that's your it's pretty boring down there throwing water out so you come up with all these ridiculous calculations and we've come up with something something like this it seems to be that for the first 30 days we worked out that it was 200 buckets per watch now that's eight watches for three hour watch later so that's eight watches per day which gives you 1600 buckets per day 30 days at 32 48 000 buckets all right for 48 000 buckets now for the last 20 days the ship's getting lighter right it's getting much better it's only 100 100 buckets per watch so that gives us uh that's another 16 000 we're up to now 48 64 000 buckets right so far I heard you muttering a new method of navigation here yeah I was thinking as everybody used to think to work on another navigation system we can't uh 64.60 let's say 64 000 buckets for the whole voyage and we have 4 000 miles roughly uh the length of the voyage so I could count how many buttons per mile in conclusion that would be long sixteen thousand uh six sorry sixty buckets have you told Bill that it might be a useful bit of it it's a touch of instance this is what we need we want to get stuff so uh we had a breeze in the North in the west north west which is almost impossible in a situation in a huge ocean which is covered with the South the East Trade pattern traditionally and for for millennium but there it was it was right behind us and it's giving us a push now we're in our fifth hour after days of being driven Northwest when it looked as though they would miss Madagascar altogether and be driven onto East Africa or even Arabia the dramatic change in the wind turns them South back on course and their Spirits saw by God that was a close shave this morning you know after last night's Run 100 miles before breakfast sitting on the floor deck looking out at the at the uh the lewitt art ringer which is a fascinating site at any time and suddenly I realized Jesus the thing is bending down like the nose cone on a on a Concorde the hell's going on I honestly thought then it was going to split up in a minute I didn't think we had any time to move at all but boy we sure move you know if we lost that it's we're just completely legless we've got one broken wing on the on the on the most important side because we were leaning and healing and flying down waves and that she's taking all the strain I think we've fixed it now we've worked for about four hours on it's crawling around out there and getting swept often from time to time done as Bill McGrath and come out would you please I just want to say something I hope it'll have to stay on the helm I'm afraid we've got to just hold up and sit out there I just want to talk to everyone for a minute you saw the champagne coming important um you thought it was my birthday or it's not for birthdays for a death day yeah I think birthdays should be celebrated in private and and uh death days celebrated in public we're only a small a small public art here in the middle of the Indian Ocean but the attempt is just as strong um everyone's had their own reasons for coming on the Simon look it's either the project itself the nature of it or a trust in the ship or just a pure Adventure all three of these uh for the same reasons that Chico Hansen who died a year ago this morning would have chosen when he uh put so much of himself into the trip and although it's incredibly miserable uh if you'd had a choice now you probably would have decided to stay at home chica didn't have that choice um he didn't have the choice to make because he made the ultimate sacrifice for the trip and that was his life um one of the things that used to say and he lived by all his life that I knew him anyway was it quote from Ellen Keller which said the life is a daring Adventure or nothing at all I'd just like you to have a little a little drink for Chico the celebratory champagne pachico could be perhaps an omen for the success of their voyage Madagascar slowly but surely is getting ever closer but I think Chica would have improved because he didn't he fancy little bit of champagne at any time foreign 600 miles east of Madagascar the thing they've been dreading happens starboard Outrigger breaks off you ready they concentrate on getting the broken section on board one way or another it's going with them in spite of the imminent danger of capsize they have an almost unshakable faith in their crippled craft it's a ship that's keeping us alive the ships gives us afloat the ship is pushing us towards Madagascar the chival take us there [Applause] people always ask why do you do Adventures or why do you do this I can only say is that the man who takes his family to the beach house every year for 10 years 15 years suddenly breaks out and says right next year we're all off to China now that man is going through all the same emotions as I probably am going through right now he's doing something new he's broken away from the mundane things and he is experiencing got an adventure and if it's successful with him he'll go somewhere else the next year and that's exactly like us you up the stakes each time [Music] so after leaving Indonesia the high stakes Adventure pays off like their predecessors centuries ago they finally cite land it's Madagascar a high performance Tree on the other we're on it [Music] we've arrived at the mouth of Diego Suarez spot bringing on after 5 000 Motorway miles of nobody instruments this side of Jesus Christ [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music]

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