A Slow Boat to Somewhere Exploring French Polynesia

NR 24 minDocumentary
Ride along on a rustic and rusting Polynesian cargo boat as it makes deliveries to 21 of the globes most isolated coral reef atolls in the heart of the South Pacific Ocean Along the 3000mile route meet black pearl divers the man who found the Kon Tiki Marlon Brandos Mutiny girlfriend a ship laden with NFLsized crewman and many more all set against the backdrop of a fastandforever changing Paradise I jumped on the cargo boat for one of its monthly 3000mile delivery jobs taking us to portsofcall that were literally just piles of sand and rock washed up on rims of coral halfway between Australia and South America each home to populations ranging from seven to two hundred fifty people The trip took us through the Tuamotus a chain of 78 atolls that sailors going back to Magellan dubbed the dangerous archipelago for its lowlying barely visible woodenboatsinking reefs

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