Acts 27:27-32

²⁷At around midnight on the fourteenth night of the storm, still being blown over the Sea of Adria, the crew suspected they were getting close to land.

²⁸They checked the depth and found it was forty meters, and a little while later they checked again and it was thirty meters.

²⁹They were concerned that we might be wrecked on rocks, so they dropped four anchors from the stern, and prayed for daylight to come.

³⁰The crew tried to leave the ship, and had lowered the ship's boat into the water with the pretext that they were going to drop anchors from the ship's bow.

³¹But Paul told the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless the crew stays with the ship, you will be lost.”

³²So the soldiers cut the ropes holding the ship's boat, and let it loose.