ShowStoryText("Your crew are skilled or at least numerous enough to put this plan into effective action, not to mention motivated by the desire to save their own lives, and with an hour's solid effort manage to bring the ship free of the whirlpool's influence");
else
CrewID = math.random(0, CrewCount);
CrewName = GetCrewName(CrewID);
KillCrew(CrewID);
ShowStoryText("Your crew are simply not up to a task requiring such levels of strength or coordination, and you look on with half-horror, half-pity as you are pulled inexorably towards the churning, swirling waters of the whirlpool. The ship lurches, casually tossing " .. CrewName .. " overboard, and it is only through a fortunate strong wind that you are able to pull the ship back to safety just before the sea claims the rest of you.");