toppled his vessel, mike rockefeller was aboard a double canoe with a dutcher anthropologist called rene. it was seen they wernge tryingnd to go up the island and river at rockefeller very badly, wanted to try to swim ashore after all the two men to markets and made itd . and he wanted to have a good shot. him swimming away at the pit, the shore appeared to be three miles away, but he couldn t be quite sure that was the last he saw michael thathe sr. the theory for some time has been that rockefeller was eate n not by sharks, by cannibals.this to this day, historians believe this photo of a white man runninphoto ofg with a cann tribe may have been michael rockefeller. malast year, primetime spoke tok rockefeller investigator who paid a a visit to the tribe of cannibals. according to asmat, cosmology and culture carried a sacred obligation and ton to reciprocate. to kill somebody from the tribes that had killed their people. and michael rockefeller,