If you were given a raft and you would take five little friends with you, through the sea, from one continent to another, would you dare? This film based on true events - "Lone Raft Heavy Ocean". #真实事件 #
The prototype of the male protagonist, Saul Helda, is known as the "most famous Norwegian in the world", in 1947 with five friends on a raft without any mechanical power, lasted 101 days, after nearly 5,000 miles of life and death drift, across the Pacific Ocean, to the Polynesian Islands, creating a miracle in the history of human navigation.
Saul was an explorer who had an unusual interest in novelty from an early age, and lived with his wife in a primitive tribe for a full decade as a young man. During this time, he discovered that the earliest tribal ancestors of the island were not natives, but came from Peru.
As early as 1,400 years ago, Peruvians crossed the Pacific Ocean on primitive rafts to the Polynesian Islands, where they settled and lived ever since.
Saul returned to New York with his research, but no newspaper was willing to publish his research report, arguing that it was impossible for primitive societies to do so a thousand years ago, that Thor's research lacked practical evidence, that the battered Thor did not accept defeat, that you said it could not be done, that I would prove it to you according to the situation at that time.
He began to raise funds, recruit participants, and go to the seamen's tavern to learn and discuss the feasibility of things with the sailors. But even the veteran sailors felt that this market was basically unlikely to succeed.
Thor also recruited his first partner here, the refrigerator salesman Xiao Fat. Then he went to Peru, found his own Fa Xiao, and under the introduction of Fa Xiao, he recruited the remaining three partners, two veterans who were proficient in radio and a humanistic photographer.
At this point, the "Miracle Six" was established, and finally shipbuilding, a raft made entirely according to the production process of a thousand years ago, only rope and wood, not even an iron nail, the only driving force is the sail.
After the raft was built, Thor received the support of the Peruvian president, received various military supplies, received attention on the day of departure, people blessed their trip, and then a large ship dragged the raft out of the port and began the official voyage.
At the beginning of the face of the endless sea, everyone was very curious and excited, full of hope for the subsequent voyage. The sea is calm and calm, everyone eats comfortable food and chats about the day, and the day passes like this. After a few days, everyone is used to this peaceful life, and occasionally there will be a little surprise, and the road ahead will not be comfortable forever.
In the evening, the sky was cloudy, and Thor felt that it should only rain a little, but at night, the torrential rain struck in the lightning and thunder, the wind blew huge waves, and the raft undulated on the surface of the sea, capsizing at any time. Thor tried to undo the sails, but was hit by a wave and fell into the sea, but fortunately he was tied with a rope around his waist and returned to the raft with the help of his partner.
On this night, everyone saw the violent side of the sea, but this was only the beginning, and more difficulties were waiting for them.
It's a gamble, winning will create miracles, losing will kill the sea, surviving the stormy night, the early morning raft is a mess. Due to its remoteness from land, the radio signal is intermittent.
To confirm the location of the route, they tied the signal line to the hydrogen balloon to ascend high. When the signal was received, the line was bitten off by the parrot on the ship, and the crowd could only helplessly watch the balloon drift away.
Fat was washing clothes at the bow of the boat, but did not see a huge creature slowly swimming under the raft, Thor found it, this is a whale shark, very curious about the raft floating on the water, swimming around, from time to time also passing under the raft.
Because of its size, a wooden plank at the bottom of the raft was topped up, and the little fat man from the salesman was frightened and thought that he had been attacked, so he counterattacked with a thatched gun, stabbed the whale shark, and the pain-eating whale shark swam to the bottom of the sea with the rope tied to the thatched gun. The raft was pulled around on the surface of the water, and everyone stood unsteadily and fell down, but fortunately the plank tied to the rope was torn off, which avoided the danger of overturning.
At night, an even more bizarre sight appeared, with many glowing creatures swimming back and forth on the edge of the raft, which caused everyone to marvel.
The next day, during the day, the photographer sat in a simple shark cage and went to the bottom of the raft to check the situation, but really attracted a great white shark, was frightened and hurriedly climbed back to the raft, but also told everyone a bad news, the wood at the bottom of the raft after a long period of soaking in the sea, began to slowly absorb water decay, when the wood is saturated, it will sink to the bottom like a stone.
No one knows how long the raft will last, but now they still can't contact the radio to confirm that the route is correct. Everyone's mood was as heavy as a glass of wood sucking up water.
Thor got into a lifeboat, away from the raft, he wanted to take a full photo as a souvenir, but he did not see the shark slowly approaching behind him, but the companion on the raft saw clearly, hurriedly pulled him back, Booker's parrot accidentally flew into the sea, and before Booker could catch it, it was swallowed by the shark in the water.
Furious, Booker stared at the shark, and then he made an incredible move, only to see him hold the shark's tail with one hand, and with the help of his companions, he directly fished a live shark from the sea to the top of the raft, fierce in the water, but after landing, he could only be at the mercy of others, Booker killed the shark, helped the pet to avenge, but the smell of blood also attracted more sharks to wander around the raft.
The timid fat took out the steel wire and asked for reinforcement of the raft that was about to loosen, Thor thought that this was contrary to the original intention of their action, opposed his proposal, and threw the wire into the sea, the little fat walked to the stern of the ship in frustration, slipped under his feet, and the whole person fell into the sea full of sharks.
Surrounded by many sharks, the blood-stained little fat was in danger, and as the ocean currents he was pushed away from the raft, farther and farther away, the companions cut the captured sharks into the sea, diverting the attention of many sharks, Booker took the rope and jumped into the sea to swim to the side of the little fat, took him back to the raft, and when he was about to be bitten by the shark, the two returned to the raft.
Time passed day by day, and the six of them had been living on the raft for three months. Strange things are seen a lot, and they are commonplace. Thankfully, the radio was switched on, confirming that the route was not wrong, and their deeds received more attention.
One morning, a reflection caught the attention of the seabirds, which heralded that they were not far from land, had sailed for nearly a hundred days, about 5,000 miles, and now the land was in sight, leaving only the last and most dangerous one, La Roa Atoll.
There are only two ways to do the sharp coral reef wall that surrounds the entire island, either to take an extra thirty days to bypass the south, or to cross the reef wall in the middle of the waves.
The waves outside the island are divided into thirteen times per group, and the last one is the highest, as long as it is well used, it is not impossible, but once it fails, it will face the risk of ship destruction and death.
After a short period of thought, the crowd chose the latter, the plan was determined, everyone quickly began to act, informed themselves of their position by radio, fixed the raft with heavy objects, and everyone firmly held steady, and began to calculate the time of each wave, and the waves were higher than one...
After eight waves, just counting to the ninth, an accident occurred, and the rope that fixed the raft was cut by the sharp reef, and the raft rushed towards the coral reef wall with the ninth wave.
Now there was no way to remedy it, the crowd could only hug the stake in their hands, silently chanting God's blessing, in a huge roar, the raft stopped, he was pushed by the waves above the coral reef wall, neither lucky to cross, nor unlucky to crash into smashing.
Before it could breathe a sigh of relief, the raft returned to the reef wall with the retreating waves, and then the bigger wave struck, and the raft rushed to the reef wall again, this time it was really finished, and Thor struggled in the water, swimming towards the shallow. Finally he stepped on the mud and sand, stood up, he successfully came to the shore, the raft was not far away, some people slowly stood up from above, one after another, the team of six people, one by one, a lot of safe landing.
Looking at the sand on the ground, Thor felt like he had a dream, as if everyone had just set off yesterday and woke up to today.
The crowd cried and laughed, cheered and celebrated, and the miracle of navigation history was born from this moment, and the six people proved with their actions that without relying on any mechanical power, using the most primitive wooden method, humans can also cross the Pacific Ocean, which also confirmed Thor's concept: the ocean is not a barrier, but an avenue, not an obstacle, but a passage.