Gao Yang and his team certainly couldn't stay on the transfer ship any longer, but the good news was that there wasn't just one transfer ship nearby, and the first thing Antoncel did was not to pack up his things but to contact the other transfer ships.
There were three transfer ships near Gao Yang and his team, all close to the main shipping route and not too far from each other. Antoncel contacted one called the Victory, which was about forty or more nautical miles away from their current transfer ship. Forty to fifty nautical miles was not considered far at sea, but it was not possible for Gao Yang and his team to swim there, and Curry certainly wouldn't be so kind as to send a boat to take them away.