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- Two spare handpumps had been pulled away by currents along with the forestay
sail, the jib, the lifeboat and the main anchor.
- No response to the Mayday calls as they were in a remote corner of the world.
- Sue's head had swollen alarmingly, she had two black eyes and a deep cut on her
arm.
- She didn't tell the narrator more of her injuries as she didn't want to worry him
when he was trying to save them all.
Pinpricks in the vast ocean :
- On the morning of January 3, the pumps had reduced the amount of water on
board.
- They had survived for 15 hours since the wave hit their boat, but the boat was
not strong enough to take them to Australia.
- The narrator checked if they could reach Ile Amsterdam, a French scientific base,
one of the two pinpricks in the vast ocean.
- The weather again started deteriorating and by the dawn on 5th January, their
situation was again desperate.
"We aren't afraid to die.....if we can all be together" :
- The narrator went to assure the children that they were going to make it.
- Jonathan said that they were not afraid to die if they can all be together.
- This gave the narrator hope and a reason to fight the sea.
- Sue came to him and gave him a card. She had drawn caricatures of Mary and
the narrator.
- The card said that she loved them both and hoped for the best.
- The narrator was filled with optimism. Somehow they had to make it.
The most beautiful island in the world :
