Acts 27:39-44 - The Shipwreck
39 And when it was day, they did not recognize the land: but discovered a certain gulf having a shore, into which they determined, if possible, to thrust out the ship. 40 And having knocked off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosing the bands of the rudders, and raising up the main sail to the blowing wind, they made for the shore. 41 And having fallen into a place where two seas met, they broke the ship, and indeed the prow, sticking fast, remained motionless, but the stern was torn off by the violence (of the wind).
42 And the counsel of the soldiers was that they should kill the prisoners, lest some one, having outswum them, might escape: 43 but the centurion, wishing to save Paul, forbade them from their counsel; and commanded that those who were able to swim, having first thrown themselves overboard, to go to the land; 44 and the rest, some on planks, and others on some parts from the ship. And thus it came to pass that all came safe to the land.