What real event is this story based on?

How do ones priorities change in times of great danger?

What are the men focus on in the opening paragraph?

Who are the four men in the boat (the occupations?)

What is the boat compared to?

What is the singular disadvantage of the sea?

What are the cook and the correspondent arguing about?

What does the cook say is positive about their situation?

What is so difficult to do in the dinghy?

What does that correspondent think is amusing? What does he later find in his pocket?

Why does the captain decide that they should try for the shore?

What do the men see onshore?

What happens to their "rescue"?

why does the cook ask the oiler about pie?

Why didn't the correspondent want to be caught in the current?

How does the story end? What happens to their boat? :O

Why is the oiler's deal ironic...?

Why would crane refer to the survivors as interpreters at the end?

What is a refrain?