Kon-Tiki

12/4/2025

Narrated by expedition leader Thor Heyerdahl, this hour long feature presents quite an impressive observation of just how half a dozen sailors embarked half way across the Pacific Ocean aboard a raft in which no metal or even wooden nails were used. Their plan was to sail, or follow the currents, all the way from the coast of Peru to Polynesia and they had to carry all that they might need. That’s because ancient mariner mythology suggested that fish only lived near the coast and that there would be no chance to harness drinking water from the rain. Of course, as they travelled, they discovered that not only where these “truths” little more than old seamen’s tales, but that there was a plethora of creatures both above and beneath the waves to accompany, feed - and occasionally threaten - t