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Pacific Heartbeat

Daughters of the Waves

8/10/2023 | 56m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

Polynesian surfer girl, Vahine, has her sights set on Olympic gold.

Aired 08/10/2023 | Expires 08/07/2025 | Rating TV-PG

Pacific Heartbeat

Daughters of the Waves

8/10/2023 | 56m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

Polynesian surfer girl, Vahine, has her sights set on Olympic gold.

Although only 20, Vahine Fierro is undaunted by the Teahupo‘o wave, considered the most dangerous in the world. Vahine surfs as no other Polynesian girl has ever surfed. In Tahitian culture, riding the waves is an ancestral activity from which women had been gradually eliminated, but now surfing is open to women, just in time for the Olympics.

Aired 08/10/2023 | Expires 08/07/2025 | Rating TV-PG

Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts. Distributed nationally by American Public Television

Pacific Heartbeat

Daughters of the Waves

8/10/2023 | 56m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

Although only 20, Vahine Fierro is undaunted by the Teahupo‘o wave, considered the most dangerous in the world. Vahine surfs as no other Polynesian girl has ever surfed. In Tahitian culture, riding the waves is an ancestral activity from which women had been gradually eliminated, but now surfing is open to women, just in time for the Olympics.

Aired 08/10/2023 | Expires 08/07/2025 | Rating TV-PG

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Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts. Distributed nationally by American Public Television

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