File of Kon Tiki explorer Thor Heyerdahl
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- (18 Apr 2002)
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20/07/1970- Bridgetown, Barbados
1. Various shots of Ra II papyrus reed vessel at sea
2. Crew waving as approach mainland
3. Crowds at quayside
4. Thor Heyerdahl being interviwed at quayside
5. Cutaway crowd
6. Heyerdahl being interviewwd after expedition
STORYLINE:
Explorer Thor Heyerdahl has died.
Heyerdahl, whose 1947 Kon-Tiki expeditions captured the world's imagination, slipped into a deep sleep on Tuesday (16 April 2002) a week after he started refusing food, water or medical attention.
A week later, Heyerdahl, who made a career of challenging the views of the scientific mainstream, slipped into a deep, coma-like sleep but was still alive, his son said.
He died Thursday afternoon.
The scientist and adventurer was rushed to the Santa Conora hospital on the Italian Riviera nearly three weeks ago after becoming ill during a family gathering at Colla Michari, an ancient Italian village he bought and restored in the 1950s.
At his request, he was released from the hospital and brought back to his beloved Colla Michari to spend his final days surrounded by family.
He was 87.
Experts scoffed at Heyerdahl when he set off to cross the Pacific aboard a balsa raft in 1947, saying it would get water logged and sink within days.
After 101-days, and 7,900 kilometers (4,900 miles), he proved them wrong by reaching Polynesia from Peru, in a bid to prove his theories of human migration.
His later expeditions included voyages aboard reed rafts, Ra, Ra II and Tigris.
The Ra II expedition was Heyerdahl's second attempt to prove that the cultures of Latin and South America could have been infuennced by people who had sailed across the Atlantic from the Mediterranean area.
On July 12th 1970 Heyerdahl and a 7 mile crew sailed into Bridgetown, Barbados after a journey of more than 300 miles from Morocco.
The vessel they sailed in- the Ra II- was made of papyrus reeds and based on a 5000 year old Egyptian design.
His wide ranging archaeological studies were often controversial and
challenged accepted views.
Heyerdahl maintained a high pace of research, lectures and travel until his sudden illness.
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The BRAVERY of these men is beyond compare.
All experts said that the raft will go down in a few weeks, that balsa logs will be saturated with water, that the ropes will fail, that there will be no one to save them since they would be far from any trade routs. Yet, they went, and they succeeded!!! I greatly admire these brave men! Norwegians are amazing people!
Just been reading about this hence I looked it up on youtube, so this is by looks of it the 2nd Atlantic crossing using the papyrus leaves, the first crossing almost succeeded but fell short by a few days . The Kon tiki was made from Balsa wood and left South America I guess for the Polynesian islands and was even more impressive an endeavour. Like you said , Bravery beyond compare, apparently he went and found Balsa wood himself with his team, that in itself sounded like a nightmare to us mere mortals.
I met him in 1960s and read his book. Very nice man
This is Ra expedition from 70s, Kon Tiki trip was in 40s...
Nevertheless only two of Ra crew had sailing experience, others had buoy-sized balls.
Absolutely amazing, real men, real explorers.
I am here after seeing kon tiki movie
Me too
It has some inaccurate stuff. You know like Thor Heyerdahl being good at english in the movie when it was the opposite irl lol. But his friend wasnt a coward like the movie depicts him. But i remember seeing it some years ago.
me too
wish the entirety of that interview was included
Great Man! Great expedition!
Just finished the book on the Ra-expedition. Wow, what an adventure! And they finally made it the second time around!
He was one of my hero's.I was in the park service and was at Mt.St.Helens.
This is amazing
Amezing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
it's a Tigris or Ra ,but not a KonTiki
There's a mistake in your text. Not 300 but 3000 miles!
Alguém aqui por causa do filme ?
Ducking Thor bruh
Toooooooo boring
Just like yo mammie
why are you here then
What what is your problem???
I'm a scientist and you're right, sometimes explorations don't make the best thrillers. But when you consider just how life and death this expedition was (and that each of them knew it), it becomes a bit more raw. If you watch some of the real footage (also youtube) you see how man-against-nature this really was. I thought this film was remarkably good (even if the car chase did get omitted).