28. They took soundings and found the water to be one hundred and twenty feet deep. When they had gone a little farther, they took soundings again and found it to be ninety feet deep.
29. Fearing that we might run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.
30. When the sailors strove to abandon ship and lowered the rowboat into the sea, under the pretext of lowering anchors out of the bow,
31. Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these sailors remain in the ship, you cannot be saved.”