Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 27:17

17 Which when they had taken up, they used helps , undergirding the ship; and fearing left they should fall into the quicksands , strake saily and so were driven.

Not only using all Instruments fit for their purpose, but all hands were imployed too.

With Cabels to keep the sides of the ship the closer and faster together.

There were Two Quicksands especially famous in Africa, the one the greater, the other the lesser, called Sy[illegible: 1 letter]tes, [illegible: 1 letter]ec[illegible: 1 letter]use these Mountains of Sand▪ under water, did seem, as it were to draw and suck up ships, they were so s[illegible: 1 letter]on swallowed up by them.

By the word here used, Sails and their Tackle, or the Top-Mast, may be [illegible: 1 letter]nderstood Decks.