What Lehua Kamalu has said about Polynesian navigation
2 quotes · 1 episode · Nov 6, 2026
Lehua Kamalu, Hawaiian voyaging captain and navigator with the Polynesian Voyaging Society, has been quoted on Polynesian navigation 2 times in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on November 6, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Kamalu avoids the term celestial navigation because navigating by nature also depends on reading waves and wind.
“a critical element of navigating by nature is looking down to what's in the ocean and understanding the wave patterns”
TED Radio Hour: Escaping the modern world and your noisy mind (Nov 6, 2026) · Listen from 36:26
Kamalu says she is a different person at sea and frames voyaging as a return to nature rather than merely an escape.
“I like to think it's a re-immersion. It's actually a return”
TED Radio Hour: Escaping the modern world and your noisy mind (Nov 6, 2026) · Listen from 42:42
Episodes
Escaping the modern world and your noisy mindTED Radio Hour · Nov 6, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with Pico Iyer, Sarah Edmondson and Lehua Kamalu, and airs Shonda Rhimes's talk, about escape, silence, cults, voyaging and burnout.
Lehua Kamalu on other topics
- Hōkūleʻa · 1 quote