To overcome or take control of ...........

A small inflatable rubber boat.

A disease caused due to lack of C vitamin.

Tool or instrument

Having a firm decision to accomplish a certain goal.

A piece of strong texture attached to a ship mast to catch wind.

In 1951, a young French doctor, Main Bombard remarked that shipwrecked men who found themselves afloat at sea without food or fresh water could remain alive for a long time. They could live on the sea and its contents by eating raw fish and its juice. Planktons could prevent scurvy by providing vitamin C. 

The pronoun "They" refers to........

Dr. Bombard decided to prove that he was right. He planned to put himself to sea in an air- filled rubber boat with a three-foot-square sail. This was the kind of raft on which a man might really find himself alone on the ocean after a shipwreck. The journey started from Las Palmas on a little raft on October 18. 

The pronoun "himself" refers to ........

No sooner had he done so, Dr. Bombard ran into trouble. First, a wave swept over the raft. The next day the wind rose his sail. For the first two to three days, he had no luck in catching fish and had nothing to drink but seawater. He became depressed and feared failure in this test. As he became hungrier, he also became more determined to succeed.

The pronoun "He" refers to ...........

He had with him some fishing equipment in a sealed tin. But he wanted to avoid using it. His idea was to exist like a shipwrecked sailor. He bent the point of his knife against an oar and then tied it to the end of the oar. He tried to catch a fish but could not.

The pronoun "it" refers to...........

After these first days, he was never able to make it without eating meat. Flying birds and fish were the main source of his supply. Once he caught a seabird and thought its flesh would be a pleasant change, but he found that it tasted almost like fish.

The pronoun "its" refers to........

The antonym of raw is ..........

The antonym of succeed is .....

To be destroyed or lost in sea.