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What Really Happened on the Experimental Acali Raft - Neatorama

In 1973, Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés put 11 young adults, including himself, on a raft sailing from the Canary Islands across the Pacific for more than three months to Cozumel island, Mexico. He expected to document the power struggles, sexual jealousy, and violence that would inevitably overwhelm the group. Kind of like a reality TV show. But you know what they say about assumptions. I had heard about the Acali raft experiment, which was the subject of a full-length documentary, ...