1. It's almost impossible to tip an outrigger The pics showed the tribe "righting" the outrigger...that's NOT an easy task,..it takes knowledge, practice, and skill.. a boat that size, where you have to tread water...and this was not a cohesive group of folks..If I took big canoe out on a calm lake with 9 strangers, and tipped the canoe and dumped everyone out..you'd have at least 3-4 cases of pure panic..one possible drowning..now you have an outrigger..with a group of tired folks, in the ocean..salt water..and a big boom log..
3. EVERYTHING is filmed...they have cameras all over the place..and the safety boat shadowing the outrigger would have a camera crew filming constantly...yet we didn't see the "wave"...
Hmmmm. And the water looked wave-free too. You don't suppose....
I think you are onto something.Plus that water looks so clear I can't believe they couldn't see it right away. I too thought they should have kept the old campsite and made the losers go to the new one. Why waste all that energy building a new shelter?
Here's a thought too - maybe the "wave" was from Jeff's speedboat.
I was thinking that too, I used to have a Hobie Cat. I turtled it two times (not tipped it over; "turtled" is being completely inverted), and righting it was no small task and took some serious planning for wind and water flow direction, but it has a HUGE sail too.
However, if the trunk with the flint happened to go first over the non-rigger side, and everyone was hanging on that side of the canoe looking for the box, then even without a large wave added to the mix a tip-over isn't out of the question.
They have to be picking these people based on a double digit IQ limit.