A listener note.

Against the odds uses dramatizations that are based on true events.

Some elements including dialogue may be invented, but everything is based on research. Morese Bailey clings to the edge of an inflatable life raft.

His emaciated body chafes against the sagging wet surface.

Next to him is an air pump,

which he's just used to pump more air into the vessel.

If he doesn't keep pumping like this, the circular rubber raft would

have sunk long ago. Across from him, his wife, Marilyn, uses a small plastic bowl to bail

water from the raft.

It's June 5th, 1973.

For days now, a storm has had them in its clutches.

For days, they've had almost nothing to eat. And for almost three months,

they've been adrift like this, stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,

after their sailboat sank. All around them, waves roll across the surface of the

raging sea. Long gray crests driven by fierce gusts of wind. The storm waves break violently over each other again and again.

Terential rain pours down on their tiny raft amid bursts of lightning.

Maurice turns to his wife.

I'm going fishing.

Now, in this weather?

We need something to eat.

I have to try.

No, let's just wait. Maurice don't. But Maurice is already climbing into the rubber dinghy

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