bailing water
- bucketOpen-top carrying vessel
- sinkingFalling through water
- boatWatercraft for travel
- pumpFluid-moving machine
- scoopFirst-reported story
leak · hull · flood · desperate · bilge · swamped · drowning · emergency · frantic · water · rescue · scooping · overboard · storm · waves · vessel · panic · survival
- futilityfutile, futility, in vain, pointlessness, vain
water flow direction
bailing waterflooding
Overwhelming water accumulation
taking on water · swamping · inundating · adding water · waterlogging
effort and futility
bailing watergiving up
Choosing to stop trying
surrendering · letting go · throwing in the towel · capitulating · going down with the ship