[1] The first voyage which Ingris and his crew attempted on the raft La Kantuta, sailed from Talara, Peru on 4 December 1955.
[1] For six weeks, the crew weathered starvation and resentment, until they were finally rescued by a United States naval vessel returning from Antarctica.
[1][2] Ingris spent the next three years building La Kantuta II.
[1] Four months later, Ingris and Joaquin Guerrero completed the expedition successfully, despite two of the new crewmembers having abandoned ship, taking the water supply with them.
[2] Having sailed a distance of 6,000 miles, La Kantuta II finally smashed onto the reef at Mataiva, an atoll north of Tahiti, the last island in the ocean current's path.