Acts 27:28-32

And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.

Fearing that we might run aground somewhere on the rocks, they cast four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.

But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the ship’s boat into the sea, on the pretense that they were going to lay out anchors from the bow,

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain on the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved.”

Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it fall away.