Acts 27:39-44 - The Shipwreck
39 When it was day they tried in vain to recognize the land, but they spied an inlet with a sandy beach, and they began conferring to see whether they could drive the ship into it. 40 They cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, and unloosing at the same time the ropes that tied the rudders, they hoisted the foresail to the breeze, and headed for the beach. 41 But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; the bow struck and remained fixed, but the stern began to break up under the violence of the waves.
42 Now the soldiers were planning to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim off and so escape. 43 But the centurion kept them from their purpose, because he wished to save Paul. He gave orders that those who could swim should first jump overboard and get to land; 44 and that the rest should follow, some on planks and some on other bits of wreckage. And so it came to pass that all escaped safe to the land.