Category: Travel

In 1973, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey set sail from England in a small sailboat. They were headed for New Zealand and had already crossed the Atlantic and navigated the Panama Canal, into the Pacific. About 500 miles from the Galapagos Islands, a sperm whale rammed their ship, cracking through its hull. Before it sank, they gathered what they could and hopped into a dinghy to which they tied a rubber raft. For weeks and then months they drifted. SPOILERS BELOW.