A total of 137 islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, all of volcanic origin, most of them uninhabited, belong to Hawaii. Hardly any other region is as shaped by the sea as the 50th state of the USA. “mareTV” tells the stories of the islanders and their close relationship with the ocean.
The Hawaiian Islands offer dream beaches in a tropical landscape.
Buffalo Keaulana is still on the surfboard in his 80s and knows all about the history of surfing. He has set up a bench on Makaha Beach, around which his entire family clan regularly gathers.
Navigate without modern devices
Captain Chadd Paishon studied wayfinding. Now, like his ancestors, he can cover thousands of nautical miles without technical aids such as GPS or radar. Even school children learn how to navigate on replicas of the legendary canoes: they listen to the waves with their ears on the ground.
Ficshauktion in Honolulu
The fish auction in Honolulu is no less exciting: At dawn, the restaurant chefs bid for the best seafood delicacies. Many of them are from Chinatown. In the middle of the turmoil there is also a European exotic: a Frenchman who is considered the inventor of Hawaiian nouvelle cuisine.
Hula comes from Molokai
Moana Dudoit not only drives the school bus on the island of Molokai, but also teaches the hula dance, the real one. Hula has its origins on Molokai and is not used here to greet tourists, but to transmit legends and myths.