The craft that Cook was aboard charged into some coral rock, and if his vessel didn't go down, it was thanks to the circumstance that a piece of coral broke off in the collision and plugged the very hole it had made in the hull.
Cook hajója egy sziklára futott, s csak azért nem süllyedt el, mert a hajótestbe belefúródott koralldarab levált a sziklatömbről, s a léket eltömte.