The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, ¹  they began throwing the cargo overboard, ² 

And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and a violent ¹  storm continued to batter us, ²  we finally abandoned all hope of being saved. ³ 

These men ¹  are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness ²  have been reserved.