On April 28, 1947 Heyerdahl had set out from the coast of Peru, cutting through the waves aboard Kon-Tiki, a simple raft made from balsa wood logs, based on drawings made by Spanish conquistadors ...

Thomas Lee Robison, a 58-year-old resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was believed to have been attempted to travel down the Colorado River with his small dog on a wooden raft when he disappeared ...

The prop in question happened to be the floating wooden board that served as a makeshift raft for the characters Jack and Rose at the end of the film. After the ship sank, Rose climbed on top of a ...