
Discovering A New Future
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Polynesian Navigation - The Wayfinders
The ancient Polynesian navigators used a technique called dead reckoning. They would listen to the beat of wave patterns against the hull of the canoes. The rhythms worked like fingerprints on the surface of the ocean. It was an extraordinary accomplishment and it was written about by the ancients, re-learned by Tor Haddal.
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