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PACIFIC ROW

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Year
1980
Reference
F89153
Media type
Moving image
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Year
1980
Reference
F89153
Media type
Moving image
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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Duration
0:20:10
Production company
Guilford Bird Productions
Credits
Narrator: Ian Fraser
Director: Alan Guilford
Photography: Alan Guilford

A document of the attempt to row from San Francisco to Australia in 1980 by Londoner Peter Bird.

Interview with Bird before his departure on Britannia 2. Discussion with his family. Footage and commentary from on board the boat by Bird. His ordeal on the coast off Mexico and his eventual disappointment of been wrecked at Hawaii.