Posted by Alan Hakim on September 15, 2004 at 20:15:28 from 212.137.171.86 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: Kon Tiki talk, was Re: Swallow and Dreadnought posted by John Nichols on September 14, 2004 at 13:46:09:
From what I remember of The Kon-Tiki Expedition, the balsa got more and more waterlogged, but was still supporting the raft although the logs were completely under water. Before the raft sank too low to be uninhabitable, they hit land.
I think Thor Heyerdahl's theory was that as long as the rafts lasted till they reached an island, it didn't matter if they were a bit low in the water. We never heard about the ones that sank in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.