High Waves

The lifeboat is not very big, so when there is a storm the lifeboat gets whipped around pretty bad. One incident the waves were so high that the boat went up the waves almost straight up, and on the way down it was like a nose dive. To help keep the boat from completely flooding, Pi covered the lifeboat with the tarpaulin. When the lifeboat went up or down the waves, everything in the boat either went to the back or to the front.

Pi used whistles to train Richard Parker by blowing them at him while trying to teach him something. The whistles were kinda like his life line. During the storm, all of the whistles except for one were washed away. The moment Pi realized he had one whistle left he was nervous that he might lose the whistle. If Pi lost his last whistle it would be hard for him to keep his position as super-alpha.

A storm with waves that high must be pretty scary. I don't know if I would be scared, but I know I would be deathly sea sick. Pi might have been scared, but he handled it pretty well. As for the whistle situation, I think Pi would be able to create something that would make loud noises if he lost the whistle; he would not be completely hopeless.