The Raft

Synopsis

The Marianne went down eighty miles out on a night with no particular weather in it, which is the part the inquiry will find hardest to accept. Four men got clear. The raft is rated for three, and it says so along the side in letters none of them can stop reading. On the second morning the youngest of them admits, quietly, to the man nearest him, that he cannot swim and never could, and has been lying about it since the day he was hired.

Who this is about

Four crew off the Marianne get into a life raft eighty miles out, on a night with no particular weather in it.

What goes wrong

On the second morning the youngest admits, quietly, that he cannot swim and never could, and has been lying about it since the day he was hired.

What's at stake

Eleven days of water for three men, and a number printed on the hull that none of them can stop reading.

Why it keeps going

Each episode is one more day, one more decision about the water, and one more thing said aloud that cannot be unsaid.

Takeaway

Men do not find out who they are at sea. They find out who they have been all along.

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