In The Sea There Are Crocodiles (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
We were rowing fast, but we couldn’t shout out encouragement to each other, the way professionals do, who always have someone either behind them or in front saying, And one and two, and one and two, and so on, because rowers row in unison. We couldn’t, because we didn’t want to make a noise, we were afraid even to sneeze—which, as we were half naked, wearing nothing but underpants (we’d packed our clothes into plastic bags which we’d sealed with adhesive tape to stop water getting in)—was something that might well happen. We were afraid to sneeze because we thought the coast guard would pick up our sneezing on their radar over the noise of the waves. We’d been told that by rowing fast we would land on the coast of Greece in two or three hours, but that was without taking into account the water coming into the dinghy. When the sea got rough and started pouring down on us as if it was raining, I took a water bottle, tore it in half with my teeth to make it into a bowl and said to Hussein Ali, Leave the patch and start throwing the water back in the sea.
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