LIMA, Peru -- A Norwegian team that includes Thor Heyerdahl's grandson paddled Friday into the Pacific Ocean to repeat the famed adventurer's journey aboard the balsa raft Kon-Tiki. My personal motivation is to have a great adventure," 28-year- old Olav Heyerdahl told The Associated Press before he and five shipmates embarked for the trip across the Pacific on the balsa raft Tangaroa -- named for the Polynesian god of the ocean.
SYDNEY, Australia - An Italian adventurer who spent 10 months rowing more than 9,500 nautical miles across the Pacific was rescued a mere 65 nautical miles short of his goal - Australia - after rough weather sapped him of his final shreds of energy. Alex Bellini, who began his voyage off Peru in February, contacted his wife Friday to say he was too exhausted to row his 25- foot boat any farther, despite being nearly in sight of the eastern Australian town of Laurieton.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson announced Tuesday that he plans to travel to one of the deepest parts of the ocean in a single-person submarine. Branson said that over the next two years, the solo craft will go to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic's Puerto Rico Trench and South Sandwich Trench, the Diamantina Trench in the Indian Ocean and the Molloy Deep in the Arctic Ocean.
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RICHMOND -- What's it like to travel the world seeking adventure? Find out from a woman who knows. Celine Cousteau is the daughter of Jean-Michel Cousteau and granddaughter of Jacques Cousteau. She comes from a family of adventurers and is an adventurer in her own right. She free-dives, rides horses, leads mountain expeditions and swims with sharks in the South Pacific. Whatever she's doing, Cousteau seeks to educate through adventure and exploration. Hear her stories and see her personal pictures when she presents "Inspiration from Exploration: Notes from the Field" at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 25, at the Science Museum of Virginia.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A Japanese adventurer attempting a 5,600- mile trip in a hot air balloon from his country to Oregon has been missing for nearly a week, prompting a Coast Guard search. Michio Kanda, 58, vanished Thursday over the North Pacific Ocean but has a pod-like life raft and enough food to keep him alive for at least three weeks, the Coast Guard said Monday. So far, searchers have found no sign of him.
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