Kon-Tiki

The facinating story of Norwegian explorer, Thor Heyerdahl and his team in their 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from Peru, South America to the Polynesian islands to prove it possible - by using only materials and technologies available to people during that particular time period - that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times, thus also bringing traditional fishing methods known to include wave riding (surfing) skills using the Caballito de Totora with them.