The Tangaroa Expedition (The Kon-Tiki Expedition) 2012 Documentary
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All his life, Olav Heyerdahl had heard the stories of his grandfather: of how he crossed the Pacific in 1947 on a primitive raft made of balsa wood. Now at last, he got to experience it first hand.
As a tribute to his grandfather and the original Kon-tiki expedition, Olav and his team built a new raft in Peru and sailed it all the way to Raiatea in French Polynesia. When they arrived on the 24th of July 2006, after four months at sea, over a thousand people greeted them in a traditional Polynesian welcoming ceremony. This is a spectacular and unique documentary of the modern day voyage, with footage of the 1947 expedition setting the context. The 1947 Kon-tiki film won an Oscar, and Thor Heyerdahl's book has sold more the 50 millions copies worldwide. At the time, the whole world was amazed by this eccentric Norwegian explorer. The story continues to enthral 60 years later, only this time in colour.
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If you think this was a waste of time, you don't understand what Thor Heyerdahl was proving. The key is that ancient boats were quite capable of long voyages and that the oceans were roads not barriers. Getting some practice with these ancient boats, both reed and raft, helps us better understand what was really possible in antiquity. It isn't just about showing where the polynesians came from.
"It isn't just about showing where the polynesians came from"
Except this doesn't show where the Polynesians came from because they weren't from South America.
Lita Kinikini then they have a lot of people to debate with because anthropologists, archaeologists and geneticists all disagree.
Lita Kinikini Well i can tell you that we didnt come from south america... we came from the east, from New Zealand and branched out west toward Hawaii. . . .
why the hash tags?
nesianrugby
You dumb shit. You did not learn a thing did you.
I vividly remember attending a theatre in Toronto with my Dad, an avid amateur sailor, to see the
original motion picture of Kon Tiki. He talked about the 'show' for days afterward; he would have loved this
'Kon Tiki Two' adventure, in glorious colour! "I must go down to the sea again,.........................." RIP Dad.
This is completing a circle for a lot of us who were encouraged by the original story to dare to go where we might not have gone with our lives. Many thanks to all involved.
Fantastic story and follow up to his grandfathers amazing journey(s). As a HAM radio operator (n3glv) I was shocked and almost brought to tears over the story of the old man who was helped by a fellow ham, all those years before. Excellent stuff guys!
This is a great inspiring ocean adventure. Nice to see it done again.
There was much more fish in the ocean in the time of Kon Tiki expedition and much less polution. We made such a big change in the ocean in just fifty years. As I remember the book, they see sharks every day.
Absolute fact and interesting as well...
On a smaller scale supporting your comment, during covid, in America, I have visited many beaches from California to Florida...during the months of beach shutdowns, their were an abundance of marine wildlife, sand dollars, tropical neon fluorescent fish, and huge 4 ft tall birds who would stroll the beaches alongside me, I have a few videos of it and all..
Humankind has truly become detrimental to this planets nourishment...
After a very hard sea crossing through the Pacific Ocean, they arrived at this paradise; the islands of the South Sea, Polynesia czcams.com/video/bH8wMypKn3Y/video.html
Overfishing.....I agree, but it's weird, because I've never seen this overabundance. Are you sure it's not part of the plan? Corporate greed can be counted on?
wonder what your relatives will think of you traveling during covid. Unless you brought everything you needed and never stopped anywhere there were people like gas stations@@Kinetic-Energy117
Having read Kon Tiki many, many times in my life I am excited to see such expeditions still inspire others to venture out on interesting adventures.
Well - that left me in tears! Bravo, one and all.
If a few guys with little knowledge of sailing an ocean going raft can carry out such intricate navigation after self teaching over a few months, just think good the original pilots would have been with generations of experience. Overly programme. I read the book in school in the early 1960s - it was a wonderful just post WW2 expedition just when people needed to hear of such a peaceful adventure after years of war and austerity. Nice to see 2 generations later the same need for simple adventure still exists.
I appreciate your comment very much :-)
thanks for your comment on the knowledge factor...ha ha..amazing for sure what is possible.
It is a joy to hear others recalling having read the book in the 1960s. At 10yrs old, I built a 15 inch long model of a raft out of parts of bamboo strips of old awning on our patio.The Scandinavian people are so strong, healthy and take daily time out for a tea and biscuit with friends.. turn off electronics!!please! This unity of brotherhood of diverse people will save us in world disaster. .
Amazing story of the re-enactment of the original Kon-tiki journey! Especially the local links to people who can still remember the fist expedition!
I love this video. I read the book about the first Kon Tiki expedition in 1960 and now I feel so fortunate to have seen this.
I read the Kon-Tiki and really enjoyed this film. It gives you an idea of what happened in 1947.
Great to see Olav Heyerdahl having taken up this challenge from his grandfather. Having just had the pleasure to read 'The Kon-Tiki Expedition' and before this 'The Tigris Expedition', I'd say touché - his grandfather would be proud and want to join in with the crew.
I find it amazing that people thousands of years ago jumped on to a raft and sailed into a seemingly endless ocean in hopes of finding another landmass supported by the migration of birds, if even that. I love humanity.
Often it was not the need to explore but a need to survive. Perhaps even a way to flee from the other less friendly humans ;)
@@Namibiets we love to expand though. We never have enough. Thats how our species so rapidly migrated across the globe and adapted to every environment. Now we are going to space. Give it a few millenia we will somehow run out of enough of it and we will start looking for new solar systems.
Everything under the great blue sky, as the khans said
nice! i was hoping someone would do another kon-tiki. a long time ago, after reading the book, i built a small log raft as an experiment and sailed it. it was only for one or two people. it had a tahitian-style crab-claw rig and the boards, and it sailed really well.
i towed some friends in an inflatable dinghy with it. it did not last long, it got trashed by some local kids who wanted to vandalise it.
i think it was around '89 when that happened. i also made a working scale model of the kon-tiki, back then, also, which really sailed, but left it at the house where i lived when i moved here about 7 years ago.
i used to have the book, but someone in samoa back in '92 decided they needed it, and stole it and a few other thor heyerdahl books i had. hard cover copies, too. ugh. haha.
i haven't found another copy of kon-tiki or aku-aku, yet, but i managed to find one of them, the fatu-hiva book, which i have now.
Absolutely great adventure well documented and produced, so glad I found it on CZcams
Enjoyed being invited along, can't wait for the sequel.
Intriguing!
What a great reminiscence of olov h. and the crew to his grandfather, what impressing adventures, quite felt your inner silence and freedom. The story of the nine year old polynesian then and 60 years later in 2006 was also fantastic. Thanks a lot! Good life , live- love life
Spellbinding. As a Norsk-American especially, this makes me so proud, Nice party at the end!
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And of course Thor Heyerdahl followed it up with the Tigris expedition and the book and the book on that expedition is well worth a read. So thanks for this.
This was purely inspirational and well done, congratulations to you all!
“There are three sorts of people; those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are at sea.”
- Old Capstan Chantey attributed to Anacharsis, 6th Century BC
Wow!!!
I read Kontiki at School and was enthralled, and this is great to see it rerun, but the original proved a point and a theory.
Since then we have learnt a lot fir Leather Boats and Brendan the Navigator etc
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Fantastisk! Wonderful! Proud to have been born a Norwegian. What a great accomplishment by these men. Godt gjort!
Ja! check-out isloopzsazsa comment above!!
I read his novel Kot Tiki Expedition at HS. Wow, this is a real treat to finally see the movie and of course Tangaroa! Well done so inspiring!
I've read the Kon-Tiki expedition 3-4 times, and something that always stuck with me was the amount of sea-life they encountered. Most mornings they found fish stranded on the boat that had jumped aboard throughout the night, and as was said in this, they were often surrounded by sharks... I find it disturbing that these guys didn't have the same experience... perhaps an indication of how much we've stripped the ocean?
They were in a different current. More speed, less sharks. Believe me, there are still way too many in the Pacific.
"way too many"? Who the fuck are you? Is the number of sharks we decide to spare the appropriate/natural amount?
My exact reaction. Squid, deepwater life, whales, sharks, dolphins, tuna, etc...I agree with Larry that the current they used probably played some role but I'm also confident that humans have made a tangible dent in marine life abundance/diversity (even in the middle of the Pacific).
You'd be shocked. Shark numbers globally have dropped by about 85% since then, largely due to big fishing boats :(
@@ExopMan chill man..... get a grip
Brilliant Doco, I've read the original book of "Kon Tiki" many times
Me too! ;)
So amazing!read thors book long ago and watched the doco like 8years ago. This was great!so jealous as I'd love to live that life❤
Tangaroa, the fastest sailing raft ever made! Though I didn't set out on the Tangaroa-voyage or on the Kon-Tiki2 to prove any specific theory as Heyerdahl had, what I discovered is yet another argument against anyone who thinks the oceans were barriers for non-industrial people. Heyerdahl was convinced that oceans and seas served as communicators for early man. Clearly, he was right and a pioneer on that! And he inspired others like me to follow up this work.
Torgeir Higraff
The seas have always been a highway for man because if we came from the sea WHY would we be afraid to travel them
Is it possible to sail back to Peru on a Kon-Tiki2 raft? Has anybody been able to prove this yet?
@@eriknelson6158 We tried in 2016. From Easter Island to Chile. In 70 days we tried very hard, below the Roaring Forties. kontiki2.com
Thor s theories were debunked by DNA evidence. Its more like Polynesians reached the new world than the other way around judging by rafts they used. Polynesian sailing ability was in a class of its own. Funny how these conspracy theorist use Polynesian names for there South American rafts because a Polynesians would have said..I'm not getting on that LOL
Very Refreshing to Watch This.
Excellent video. Gives visual appreciation of the expedition that I read about 40 years ago.....
the descendants of two fantastic seafaring cultures . truly amazing !
I didn't want this to end!
Que arriesgados viajar en altamar en una balsa..los acompañé en la travesía desde Vinces a Guayaquil ..cerca de llegar a Durán casi naufragó la balsa ..los felicito amigos soy Julio Toscano desde Guayaquil Ecuador
Really enjoyed watching this after the Kon-tiki feature film and then the original documentary.
Adventure really does give man a reason to live... Well done on completing your set journey guys.
As a sideband owner and pirate operator (kelo alpha xray), that Morse code story was emotional. Time to brush up on dots and dashes. Happy sailing!
I've been trying to make this connection for quite some time after receiving some DNA results back showing a mix of South American (Family is from Peru), Spaniard and Pacific Islander and some small traces of others. I've read Kon-Tiki and seen the movie, very interesting. Given the amount of islands, I may be never able to pinpoint the exact location of my polynesian ancestry, but I'm determined to gather as much info as possible. Very interesting and I appreciate Thor and Olav's work and research.
Amazing accomplishment. Thanks for sharing the video here on CZcams.
Thank you for this film. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Two thumbs up. I am glad as a high schooler one of our English teachers had us read this. I read it again, Kon Tiki, that is, back in the eighties after purchasing a copy at a used bookstore. It meant more to me this second reading as I could appreciate the hardships Thor endured and the obstacles he overcame to prove his point...that it was highly likely the Peruvians travelled to and populated the Polynesian islands. Glad you were able to successfully pull it off. Excellent! And thanks for sharing this documentary!
+Carl W Eterna the Swiss watch company provided them in 1947 with watches for the expedition. They have a series of watches that have Kontiki engravings in the caseback, the most interesting is the Super Kon-Tiki dive watch
oceanictime.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/eterna-super-kontiki-le-1973-review.html
DNA testing would say otherwise...
Great adventure thanks foe sharing
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful story and achievement with us. My greatest love is sailing in the South Pacific and you have made it even more of a fondness for all. Well done, your journey has truly been appreciated by many. All the best.
great adventure ,and old-fashioned experience !!!!👍🎥🎩
Fantastic stuff. Thanks for uploading :-)
amazing
Thank you from Moscow.
I rented this documentary well in Beaufort North Carolina. Enjoyed it.
An interesting and quality documentary! Thanks so much for posting.
Giants.
These men were war heroes of great character
as well as scientists.
Kon Tiki is my favorite book.
In 60 years, will we see a recreation of the Tangaroa expedition as well? And then a recreation of that recreation, which recreated the original? This could go on forever. = ]
In 72 i lived near Bengt Danilson in Punaauia,Tahiti.Lived also at a friend of mine , Francis Cowan ,who whent with Eric Bischof to Peru from Tahiti on a Bambo Raft.On the way back Eric died on a reef in the Touamotus.Francis later build a tahitian vaa,with traditionel materials and sailed to New Zealand.
Just a beautiful story of courage and daring.
Excellent documentary, well done, cheers to the mates that made the voyage.
Much respect to our ancestors for making these voyages. One wonders how they even fit their balls on the raft.
I love watching Kon-tiki!!!!
Excellent documentary, great adventure 😊
Magnificent! I wonder if is possible to sail that raft back to Peru. Perhaps a more modern style of sail would be required to do that.
very nice story enjoyed it emintsly
I just watched the Kon Tiki movie and it was great. This is what brought me here.
fishing must have been a blast... some super yummy delicious fish
I can understand to the difference in large animals between this voyage and Kon Tiki's. I used to travel to some amazing coral islands in Asia years ago, and just over the period of ten or so years, I've seen a huge difference in the amount of large sharks, and other sea life, and the health of coral reefs. For starters, shark fin soup is huge in Asia for the Chinese, and everywhere fishermen are killing even the smallest sharks just to get the fins. Shark populations have dropped drastically. I am guessing that the Chinese, and others are pull everything out of the sea they gets their hands on in large fishing boats, and fish stocks are dwindling quickly. Couple this with pollution and global warming, dying coral reefs, which I've seen where fish hatch and develop, and I am not surprised at all.
quite an achievement,, congratulations to you all
Incredible work
great sailing ! you guys are awesome!
I picked up this book ‘the Kon-Tiki Exposition’ by Thor Heyerdahl, in a charity shop a few weeks ago in a bundle of old books! I have just returned to it and photographed the plates in the book. What a coincidence!
This is awesome. But to think of the VERY first ones who sailed without knowing how far they had to go. Respect.
fantastic documentary
I remember the 1970's movie Kontiki about Thor Heyerdahl. The craft in that movie wasn't a flat raft as in this documentary. I had not heard about this expedition before now.
i just read the book, have to watch this :)!
One of the best shows I've ever seen.
Hi, it's me again, just watched it again. Back in five years :)
@cesardeluxe The watch they are using is the (now discontinued) Eterna Kontiki Diver (rated 1000m). All the crew were given one each by Eterna. You can also see Olav using an Eterna Kontiki Four Hands at the beginning of the movie.
Thor Heyerdahl also used Eterna watches on the original KonTiki expedition.
Je revois avec plus grand interet ce film que lors des conferences de l epoque quel homme admirable monsieur HEYERDAHL
It was 1972, I was 11 and gave a short speech about the Kon-Tiki in a class of 9 pupils in a small village in Belgium. ⏳
moana brought me here and now i'm so amazed with all the sailing. how lucky were they to experience such journey! makes me want to go on an ocean adventure and face my fear of the vast deep blue sea
En honor al gran descubridor de esas nuevas tierras tupac yupanqui¡¡¡¡¡¡
Amazin guys!!! Loved the doc, worked well together, was surprised no sharks out there!! Weird isn't it? That's a good thing though haha
Super Achievement!
Don't know how i got hear but i'm glad i did very interesting.
We'd
Extraordinario !!!
Wow, what a great, great journey... :-)
great, thank you...
dude,
this is so cool !
That was awesome
Li2b. Look it up, but if you don't recognize that
call sign, you are on the wrong video playback.
THAT was from my (weak) memory, and for some
reason, I NAILED it.
steve
Nice documentary. Really enjoyed it.
Fantastic Adventure Real Life Wow.
I really love this story since I read the Kontiki Expedition in 1995 my novel for my school exam.Thank for your hard work with great effort to prove me that my ancestors from south AMERICA ,I believe that 100%.three witness1.kontiki expedition,2.Tangaroa expedition 3.the book of MORMON........
That father and son moment towards the end must've been breathtaking for both of them! Also, agree with Kevin Marchant's comments below; the people on the island really serve as a reminder to us as how great humans can be!
If you visit Ballina in New South Wales you should check out the Maritime Museum, which has a display commemorating the Las Balsas Expedition, which journeyed from Ecuador to Ballina in 1973. It was the longest raft journey in history. They have the actual raft complete. Very interesting story.
When watching this my most dominant thought was to how very lucky the people that live on those islands are. Such serenity without constant attack from the rat race that more than 95% of humanity has grown accustomed. It kind of brought tears to my eyes.
You should go see it. Expensive as can be., But amazing. Happiest and friendly people.
kevin marchant you need a deeper look at such. I live on such an island. The history shows lot of struggle for survival including constant tribal warfare not to mention diseases and even cannibalism. Still water truly run deep in the Pacific.
kevin marchant
Please go to a library and get a copy of American Col. Leonard Clark's book, "The Rivers Ran East". Also take Rajeshwar Sharma's advice to heart. Clark and his companion Jorge Mendoza were the first people of European ethnicity to
go down river and make it alive down the Eastern slopes of the Andes west of Lima Peru along the Gran Paranal towards the upper tributaries of the Amazon. The "native Indians" of the region were the Ashaninkas, called Campas then. And Clark lost many of his crew to them by arrow and spear. They went by dugout canoe at first and later by balsa raft. This adventure story is incredible since it was done in 1946, and today those same Indians are living with government supervision and are fighting against the maoist narco-terrorists who have joined with Mexican drug cartels in capturing and enslaving the Indians to grow cocaine. Also notice that the feathered serpent of the Aztecs, the Dancing Anaconda god of the Eastern Peruvian Amazon, and Satan are one in the same in they way they all have their rule over the lives of the people and the power of the witches that condemn them to death or slavery, just like the left is doing today.
And White ppl made these places better .. LOL
I have a good friend who is Polynesian and I was told that his great grandfather spoke of cannabalism in his time. Also, which I thought was awful was he got his first tattoo when he was 8. His Mother and Father held him down while he screamed...freaked me out hearing the shit that goes on there. Lot's of spousal and child abuse also. It looks pretty at the resorts, but when you see the other side of the islands, it would bring other kinds of tears to your eyes.
Magnifique aventure bravo
ohhh mi god...this norways man is a heros ...thats incredible....
Luis Credidio Thank you! From Norway
the peruvian one is my dad
i was only 7 when he left amd now he is in another expedittion KONTIKI 2
You must be so proud!
+frederick rasenberger I am :)
Dani'S Made I am touched by d bravery of all d sailors,now waiting for kontiki 2
Is there going to be another documentary?
Wow! Very cool dad. I'll bet that was quite the adventure. So brave, and just a little bit nutty...😁 Your dad, and people like him, are who make the kind of history most of us only dream about.
Nagyon tetszett!"Kitartás"!
I have this weird feeling everytime I watch these dangerous and challenging journeys using ancient vehicles.
Despite of being battered in the breakers, Kon Tiki still saved a boy's life. Maybe that was her destiny.
Well presented movie - Polynesians live in a different world -
fabulous.......
just makes ya wana pack your bags and go on an adventure.
I'm surrounded of people of who believe the world is 2000 years old
Pls help
@@TheGustavo9526 hey mordekai, you know who else thinks the world is 2000 years old?
Nice work ! / Fint jobbat , Norge !
I hope the sea water testing came up short . What a beautiful ocean .