Chapter 678: Chapter 461 Boarding the Ship
Because the speakerphone was on, everyone else also heard Robinson William’s words. Although they had some private criticisms, they did not voice them outwardly.
In fact, even if this incident had not occurred, if Ye Liuyun had chosen to not rescue the drowning person or even strongly prevented them from doing so, they might have also given up on saving Fabian who fell into the water.
Although they had a relatively good relationship with Fabian, it was not to the extent that they were willing to put themselves in danger for his sake.
After Fabian was thrown into the water, he quickly came to his senses. He wasn’t a landlubber and, given his respectable Cultivation Level, he did not need to worry about safety in the water for a short period.
The reason he did not approach the large boat was that he feared Dong Tianyu might continue to harm him, so after being thrown into the water by Dong Tianyu, he just treaded water in place, neither approaching the boat nor swimming away to escape.
Although staying in the water was dangerous, Fabian was very clear in his mind that after he was thrown into the water, Samuel Jenkins and the others would definitely demand an explanation from Ye Liuyun. Unless it was absolutely necessary, they would not abandon him.
As Fabian had guessed, it wasn’t long before several crew members jumped off the deck and swam towards him, seemingly intending to rescue him.
Seeing this, Fabian, who had been somewhat worried, suddenly became angry. So he deliberately stayed put, waiting for the crew members to plead with him several times after reaching him, after which he would ’reluctantly’ accompany them back to the ship.
Just as he was growing angrier due to the crew members not reaching him after a while, he suddenly saw the large boat, which had been stationary on the water’s surface, unexpectedly start moving.
The two crew members swimming towards Fabian were unaware of this, but Fabian, who was treading water and waiting for them, could see it clearly.
Seeing this, Fabian suddenly felt an urgent sense of being abandoned by the others.
Between life and pride, Fabian could still make out which was more important, so at this moment, he no longer cared about his own face and quickly swam towards the two crew members.
When the two crew members had jumped off the deck, Fabian had seen very clearly that both of them were tied with safety ropes. Even if the ship began to sail, as long as the people on the deck did not abandon them, they could quickly pull them closer to the ship by tugging on the ropes.
When the two crew members saw Fabian swimming towards them, they were actually somewhat puzzled. They had guessed Fabian’s intentions when they saw him treading water in place without approaching the ship after they jumped in.
Having experienced such incidents many times, they knew exactly what Fabian was thinking. They had already mentally prepared themselves before jumping into the water; they knew that even if they reached Fabian, they needed to ’plead repeatedly’ to give Fabian enough face to get him back on the ship.
But to their surprise, they had only swum halfway and had not yet approached Fabian when he took the initiative to close the distance to their location. Although they were a bit surprised by Fabian’s action at the time, they felt much more relaxed.
After all, Fabian’s action meant that they did not have to plead with him in the water, which would save them a lot of effort, and they could take him directly back to the ship.
Because all three of them had considerable Cultivation Levels and because both parties made the effort to approach each other, they quickly met up.
One of the crew members put a lifebuoy tied to a rope that was connected to his back onto Fabian and then put another one on himself, ready to wave and signal the people on the deck to pull the ropes attached to the lifebuoys.
Under normal circumstances, the rescue process for someone overboard at sea involves swimming with a buoy tied to a rope, placing the buoy around the person overboard, and then having people on deck pull it, bringing both the person and the buoy back onto the ship.
If it’s left solely to rescuers to save a person, it’s highly possible that due to a lack of strength, both the person overboard and the rescuers could fail to swim back close to the ship. Hence, during maritime rescues, not only will there be a lifebuoy with a rope prepared for the person overboard, but rescuers will also have a lifebuoy with a rope tied to them.
In some movies, when someone falls into the sea, they are carried by the waves to an area far from the ship. The rescuers who jump from the ship become unable to approach the victim due to the restraints of the safety rope.
Then, the anxious rescuers will undo their safety ropes, swimming determinedly towards the victim, and eventually save them and bring them back safely to the ship.
But this is only a scenario in movies. In reality, if the distance between the person overboard and the ship exceeds the length of the safety rope, rescuers will not act as they do in movies, casting off their safety ropes and recklessly trying to save the person.
Instead, they will put the lifebuoy with the safety rope directly on themselves, decisively give up the rescue attempt, and then signal the crew on deck to pull them back.
As the crew member turned his head, preparing to wave and signal the people on the deck to get ready to pull them in, he was shocked to find that the ship had started moving.
