What alternatives do we have? We could try to surf over. Surf? Yes. Waves come in cycles...
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Knut Haugland:
[about how to avoid Raroia Reef to arrive mainland]
What alternatives do we have?
Herman Watzinger:
We could try to surf over.
Knut Haugland:
[skeptic]
Surf?
Herman Watzinger:
[taking paper and pen to drawn it]
Yes. Waves come in cycles of 13. Every 13th wave is substantially greater than the ther. When we are close to the reef we throw out an anchor, something heavy that can keep the raft in place.
Erik Hesselberg:
And then?
Herman Watzinger:
Then we count the waves. And just before the 13th wave we cut the rope, and hopefully, surf over the reef. It could work.
Thor Heyerdahl:
[looking Herman]
I like it. Let's do it. That's what we'll do.
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We could try to surf over.
Surf?
Yes.
Waves come in cycles of 13
Every 13 wave
is substantially greater than the other.
When we are close to the reef -
- We throw out an anchor, something heavy
that can keep the raft in place.
And so?
Then we count the waves.
And just before the 13th wave -
- We cut the rope,
Hopefully, surf over the reef.
It can go.
I like it.
We do.
- This is how we do it.
- Good When we find something heavy.
We have some broken radio batteries
and jerry cans.
Thor?
Clip duration: 77 seconds
Views: 188
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 12 December, 2020
Genres: adventure, biography, drama
Summary: Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
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