When the sailors strove to abandon ship and lowered the boat into the sea, under the pretext of lowering anchors out of the bow,
Drifting under the leeward side of an island called Cauda, we could scarcely secure the rowboat.
When the fourteenth night came, while we were drifting in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors supposed that they were approaching land.
Fearing that we might run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.
Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these sailors remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.