Kon-Tiki

Send us Fan MailHi Everyone.  Hope everyone is surviving snowpocalypse 2026.  We are buried here and I'm trying to get this episode out at the last minute (as usual) before we lose power.Our new theme this round is 'The Ocean is Vast' and in this episode we will be discussing the 2012 film Kon-Tiki, where in 1947, with five loyal friends in tow, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails a fragile balsa wood raft along an ancient path some 4,300 miles across the Pacific.  The film is based on true events and is a dramatization of the 1950 documentary film of the same name.We also discuss many interesting facts and figures about Earth's oceans, fears people have involving the depths and the lure of ocean tales.