The Accident

       

  As they neared Polynesia it began to get warmer and warmer since they were very close to the equator.  This caused the water temperature to stay somewhere in the 80s.
   Also as they got nearer to Polynesia there began to be more storms and in one storm something awful happened.
   Herman (one of the men) had lost is sleeping bag in a big gust of wind and he went to the side of the raft to pick it out of the ocean, but he fell in!          Thor(the man who wrote the book) and another
of the men who saw it happen, shouted "man over board" and rushed to help.  A few of them hopped in the life boat and grabbed the life saving equipment and rushed out to save Herman.  Knut (another of the men) dived into the water and went after Herman.
   Before this had happened they found that if they lost something in the water and the thing got to a certain side of the boat, they would never be able to get it back.  Herman was on the wrong side.
   Knut swam as hard as he could toward Herman, but every time he got to where he thought Herman was, he saw him further off.  Finally after a great struggle, they both managed to swim toward each other and then together they were pulled on board the life raft.
   Rowing hard they were able to get the life raft back to Kon-Tiki and so Herman was saved.