340 ton
The ship was 340 ton, and it was about 100 indians. Thats 3,4 ton on each person. can that be possible?
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They say that Archimedes used a compound pulley (which he invented) to single-handedly hoist one of the biggest ships of his time into the sea.
"Give me the place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the Earth!" -Archimedes (attr.)
When you talk about marine craft you must be careful to specify what type of tonnage you're talking about. There's deadweight tonnage, registered tonnage, measurement tonnage, metric tonnes, short tons,long tons and what have you.
shareI just saw a documentary about the "making of" - they have really managed to move this up the hill. The most unbelievable part is that they managed to finalize the movie at all, Kinski had some extreme psychic attacks on set, screaming and shouting at people, apparently the native people were very scared by this.
link for the documentary: http://imdb.com/title/tt0200849/
One of the natives actually offered Herzog his services to kill Kinski. Herzog declined. I believe that occured on the set of Fitzcarraldo.
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