Adrift in the Pacific | Creatures of the Sea | 3

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Over 100 days have passed since the Baileys’ yacht sank, leaving them adrift on a life raft in the Pacific ocean. They’ve managed to survive on turtle meat and fish they catch with a makeshift fishing hook, but they are in terrible physical condition. Now, their life raft is leaking, and they’re not sure how much longer they can stay afloat.

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0:00.0	A listener note,
0:01.2	Against the Odds uses dramatizations that are based on true events.
0:05.3	Some elements, including dialogue, may be invented, but everything is based on research. search. water whips across her face. There's so much rain she can barely see.
0:25.2	With her shaky skeletal hands, Marilyn clutches the bottom of the life raft.
0:30.2	Her stomach is empty and she feels queasy.
0:33.0	She's hungry and scared.
0:35.0	Scared that she and her husband, Maurice,
0:38.0	won't be able to survive much longer.
0:41.0	It's June 5th, 1973.
0:44.3	Marilyn and Maurice have been adrift in a pair of rubber lifeboats in the Pacific Ocean
0:49.5	for 94 days.
0:51.2	For over a week, dark clouds have been pouring rain down on them, almost non-stop.
0:57.0	Last night, they had to continuously bail water from their partially deflated life raft without a break.
1:03.6	And today, they've been caught in a raging storm for hours.
1:08.0	Maurice is in the dinghy, which is tethered to the life raft.
1:11.5	He's trying to fish, which seems crazy in this weather, but hunger has made them both desperate.
1:18.0	Marilyn watches him, hoping he catches something quickly, so he can come back to join her in the life raft.
1:24.6	Maurice turns to say something to her, but just then, Marilyn feels the life raft being
1:30.7	thrust upwards by the immense force of a monster wave.
1:35.0	She feels herself rising higher and higher,
1:38.0	then suddenly crashing back down.
1:41.0	Marilyn finds herself knocked onto her back.
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