After shouting twice, suddenly there was no sound, his face full of confusion: "No, you say something happened to their ship, could it be related to that young man who just jumped off?"
He himself was also uncertain, not to mention anything else, just the distance between the two ships, could a person really swim across?
Don't think that just because the two ships are visible, you can easily swim across. It's like the saying 'It looks close but is actually far away', which applies not only on land but also at sea. Seeing the two ships from a distance doesn't mean they're close enough to swim to.
Even if someone could swim across, looking at the time, how much time has passed?
Now, even non-sailors on the fishing boat can see that with such a vast distance, swimming across is not an immediate matter.
However, if someone indeed could swim across and sneak onto the ship, setting a fire would be easy... But, for the fire to spread so quickly, that's another problem.
