In June 1972, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey poses from Southampton, England on April 31 their foot yacht, Auralyn, and go to New Zealand. March 4, 1973, the couple has to go through the Panama Canal when it was attacked by a giant whale to leave a hole in their boat. Said the yacht was sinking, they inflate a rubber boat and fill it with some supplies, like glue and patches for the dinghy, food boxes, a small oil lamp, map, la tables, water containers, knives, plastic cups, and their passports. Once on the dinghy, their hope is or that they will be rescued soon or they will just drift to the Galapagos Islands. While they wait to be rescued, they made cards from a notebook page and play the game. When the food ran out, they caught the two with his bare hands and using string and safety of peg legs. They drank rainwater, and luckily for them, it rains often. A few weeks later, and months passed, they finally began to wither away. They had wounds from the sun and saltwater and sunburn that they almost could not move. Their raft was not as good; it needs to be constantly pumped with air. On June 30, 1973, a South Korean fishing boat had seen a strange spot in the distance and decided to investigate. They realized it was a life raft, and when they arrived Baileys, they are still alive, but barely conscious. They brought them on board and try to feed them, but their stomach has shrunk so much that they can only have in a liquid. The crew also massage their muscles to help them rebuild their strength. After spending 117 days at sea in a rubber boat, the couple wrote a book about their experiences and a year after the rescue, they set out to sail again on Auralyn II to study whales in waters off Patagonia in South America.
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