How do they do that is they must be not sick and die.
Are you referring to John Howland?
Inattention - carelessness - intoxication are all reasons why a person could fall overboard.
Carelessness and inattention is most likely the cause of someone to fall overboard.
Carelessness and inattention is most likely the cause of someone to fall overboard.
Inattention - carelessness - intoxication are all reasons why a person could fall overboard.
No-one drowned or died otherwise during the transatlantic voyage. Only when the crew and passengers had to stay on board when the Mayflower harboured in Cape Cod during the winter in which they arrived, half of them died. Not from falling overboard, but from diseases.
It is if all the proper precautions are taken.
standing up on a boat
Easy one: The best possible method to prevent drowning from a fall overboard or capsizing is to HAVE ONES LIFE VEST ON. So simple - and so relatively few people do it.
It's a boating phrase. Overboard means to go over the board, which is part of the boat. If you go overboard on a boat, you fall out into the water. As an idiom, it has come to mean doing so much that it seems excessive.
Pip jumps out of the whaleboat in Chapter 93.