

After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spend 37 days adrift in the Pacific with no maps, compass, or navigational instruments.They use every survival technique they can as they battle 20-foot waves, marauding sharks, thirst, starvation, and exhaustion.

Robert Urich
Jack Carpenter

Ali MacGraw
Claire Carpenter

Danielle von Zerneck
Susan

David Franklin
Wally
David Daniels
Timmy

Gus Mercurio
Mr. Haines

Betty Bobbitt
Mrs. Haines

Peter Sumner
Buzz
John Heywood
Commander
Michael Bishop
Howard