Ancient Replica Canoe Journey
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Scientists Use Stones to Build Canoe Like Their Ancestors and Sailed it 140 Miles Across Dangerous Waters
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Researchers from Japan and Taiwan built a replica dugout canoe from a single Japanese cedar trunk.
They paddled it 140 miles from eastern Taiwan to Yonaguni Island in the Ryukyu group, which includes Okinawa .
The team paddled for over 45 hours across the open sea, mostly without any visibility of the island they were targeting.
Their GPS trail shows that they missed several zones of deep water where the Kuroshio changes and begins to tug eastward.
They missed an area where the current forms something like an ocean gyrate that could have sent them in multiple directions.
They navigated the hazardous current brilliantly but to do so in reverse would have been extremely difficult.
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