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While traveling north along the eastern coast of Australia, Endeavour and her crew sail into the Great Barrier Reef and get caught in one of the coral pieces during low tide. The crew has to work frantically to keep the ship from sinking by working the pumps on the ship. After several hours, everyone (except the captain and other commanding people) has worked the pumps and one of them is broken so that just allows more water to come into the ship. Eventually, the tide rises and lifts Endeavour off the coral and allows the carpenters to fasten a makeshift bottom to the hole and the water level in Endeavour finally starts to go down. During the next couple days, the crew has to carefully guide Endeavour through the reefs to land so the can fasten a new hull for the ship. Nich is by now incredibly worn out by all the pumping he has been doing and is grateful for the dry land once they finally make landfall to repair the ship. This is probably the hardest anyone has ever worked onboard Endeavour this whole journey.