Shipwreck survival

[Vynticator]

Originally Posted by DangerousThing

How are these guys seeing land while swimming?

I ask this not knowing anything about the real distances, but I've found while swimming at the beach it's easy for me to get lost if I don't take a few seconds every so often to get my bearings.

That's part of the fun of the swim. The tail end of a storm will be raging when their boat is destroyed, they will be miles off shore (exact distance will vary depending on in-game choices). Most likely they won't be able to see shore at time of entry into the sea, so they will have to guesstimate the route to shore. They will be in a horseshoe bay (near Modern Halmstad, if you want to check google earth!) so it will be ok so long as they go roughly in the right direction. One of them knows the coastline well and they may have a sunstone (if they grab a belt with emergency and light gear pouches before being ditched into the sea) to check direction once the clouds thin a little.

I understand on a clear day you can see the coast 7 miles away from sea level, I am told by the inter web. So if they head broadly the right way and the storm clears after half an hour or so, they may see shore soon after that.