When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.
Yosef, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
When we had escaped, then they learned that the island was called Malta.