Kon-Tiki expedition was able to cross the Pacific Ocean on the balsa raft from Peru to Polynesia. A French seafarer, Éric de Bisschop, committed himself in a project he had had for some years: he built a Polynesian raft in order to cross the eastern Pacific Ocean from Tahiti to Chile (contrary to Thor Heyerdahl's crossing); the "Tahiti-Nui" left Papeete with a crew of five on November 8, 1956. When near the Juan Fernández Islands (Chile) in May 1957, the raft was in a very poor state and they asked for a towing, but it was damaged during the operation and had
Thor Heyerdahl Upper Secondary School national upper secondary courses of study or programmes, only agriculture is instead taught at another upper secondary school, "Melsom videregående skole" in Stokke. The school building covers an area square and has of instructional space, including 320 classrooms, of workshops, a six-hall arena space seating 4,000, three auditoria seating 45–180 people, and a professional kitchen. The library is named Fatu Hiva after the Polynesian island on which Thor Heyerdahl spent his honeymoon in the 1930s. 11% of Thor Heyerdahl Upper Secondary School students speak a language other than Norwegian at home. The school is a focus school for the "Nasjonalt