How It All Goes Down
- Chapter 37 opens with the sentence, "The ship sank" (2.37.1).
- Pi doesn't tell us how or why yet – but he's in a lifeboat, in the wind and the rain, encouraging Richard Parker the tiger, who is in the water, to swim up to him.
- Pi throws Richard Parker a lifebuoy and just then realizes he probably shouldn't invite strange tigers into his lifeboat.
- Alas, Richard Parker jumps into the lifeboat, and Pi jumps overboard.