Acts 27:44

⁴²  And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

⁴³  But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land:

⁴⁴  And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.