What Really Happened To Bob's Death?

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One day when Bob was at his house he went to go get his mail and when he checked it he saw a letter from the government. When he got in his house he opened the letter, and after he read it and looked through it, the government wanted him to boat across the Atlantic Ocean. They were going to fly him to Morocco and Bob was going to boat a small lifeboat across the Atlantic Ocean with twelve people. When Bob arrives in Morocco the FBI takes him to a port where all he sees is a small life boat and about twenty people surrounding it. They were going to leave in about an hour and Bob was the captain of their mission. When they were ready to leave Bob was the first person to get in the boat after him his twelve men got in with him. They had a support team then push them in the ocean and …show more content…
When they were closer he realized he couldn't turn around and he had no choice but to go through it. When Bob was about half way through the ice pieces he saw even bigger ones ahead. When he was almost through the ice, he accidently hit one and one of his men were thrown over. “We have to get him out of there or he is going to die,” said Bob. They could not figure a way to get him so the only choice was to leave him there to die. They also had to get the minor repairs on the front of the boat without stopping. Bob and his now eleven men were going to anchor their boat so they could fix the holes in the front of the boat. The rest of Bob and his eleven men crew trip was really easy and smooth sailing but it was long and lengthy. They have been at sea for about two weeks now and everyone is getting bad rest on the cold, hard, metal ground. They knew from their only map that they have is that they were about two hundred miles away from land. There goal was to get to New York City with everyone in the boat and the rare supplies they are delivering. If they didn’t make it all cities in America would be

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