Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these sailors remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.”
Now please come and let me give you some advice, so that you may save your own life as well as that of your son Solomon.
All whom the Father gives Me will come to Me, and he who comes to Me I will never cast out.
But the centurion was persuaded more by the captain and the owner of the ship than by what Paul said.
When the sailors strove to abandon ship and lowered the boat into the sea, under the pretext of lowering anchors out of the bow,
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.
and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And in this way they all escaped safely to land.