The group of adventurers, which included a grandson of Heyerdahl, had high hopes for their so-called "Tangaroa Expedition," named after a Polynesian god of the sea. They planned to set off April 28, on a 101-day voyage across the Pacific.
The tsunamis that hit Asia on December 26, however, doused those plans. Important sponsors decided to redirect funding grants to tsunami victims instead of to the Tangaroa project.
"We have deep respect for their priorities, and support them wholeheartedly," the expedition team announced recently.
Expedition leader Torgeir Sæverud Higraff said the voyage, in a papyrus raft from Lima to Polynesia, is now set to begin on April 28, 2006.
