[ WP ] All the water in the world becomes land ; all the land in the world becomes water . I am a survivor staying on a boat when it happens .

You would think there would be some warning signs or sounds that it was going to happen, we did n't get such a luxury. One second the *USS Shoup* was in water next second, the water was land. 
 
 At the time the *USS Shoup* was pushing 30 knots in chase of some drug smugglers, so you can imagine the ship suddenly stopping killed a few of the crew, The ship was thoroughly stuck in the new barren dirt that had appeared around it, to make it worse one of the engines caught on fire due to the sudden stopping, fortunately the sudden stop seemed to have killed the drug smugglers, we sprayed there ship with a 5 second burst from the CIWS to make sure. 
 
 After the initial stopping and fire we had lost almost half of the 296 strong crew, we were no where near the worst off though. When we started passively listening to the radio transmissions we quickly learnt what had happened, it seems that all the water turned to land and land turned to water, almost 6.6 Billion people had died within the first week, most due to suddenly finding their-self in water miles away from any land. 
 
 We quickly learnt the condition of the US fleet, mainly that there was n't one, the fleet was in disarray, the ships we could make contact with had problems similar to ours and a few air craft carriers nuclear reactors had melted down without a water supply. 
 
 Over the next day the air waves were filled with more and more desperate civilians looking for help, and slowly realizing that there was none. All we could do was sit and listen, until we received a transmission from a submarine. 
 
 `` This is *SSBN-743 USS Louisiana* requesting urgent help, our submarine has been buried in 20 meters of, well dirt it seems, and we have finally dug a hole to the surface to enable communication, we have suffered dire casualties due to fires and lack of air and we are requesting urgent help, please respond'' 
 
 I had n't even thought about what it must be like for submarine crews, this message almost made me break into tears in the fact we could n't help. 
 
 `` This is *SSBN-743 USS Louisiana* requesting urgent help...'' at this point I switched to a different channel listening into what appeared to be a cruise ship. 
 `` This is *MS Aurora* calling anyone out there, please respond, our food situation is criti...'' I tuned strait to another channel and this time it was a ranter on a short band radio: `` planning this all along, the aliens you see, they need more land than...'' I turned off the radio at this point and set down my headset. We needed to do something, humanity would n't survive split into hundreds of little groups. 
 
 I got my chance to speak at a crew meeting. 
 
 `` Radio operator Nigel Tunc you may speak now'' Grunted the Chief petty officer, the highest ranking person who survived. 
 
 `` Than you ma'am-'' 
 
 `` I prefer sir thank you'' 
 
 `` Sorry ma'a... I mean sir, I need to say to you all that we have the ability to help people, or at least start helping'' I paused for effect `` We have the ability to broadcast over all channels with this Ship and we do n't have to directly help people, all we have to do is tell them to come here and bring anything they can with them, we could start up a new civilization right here and we could keep order in it considering we have the weapons'' i stopped at this point as they all seemed interested. 
 
 `` We should just wait for someone else to tell us where to go'' One of the sailors shouted, he was quickly heckled down by the others. 
 
 `` Who else will help us?'' I asked the crew `` We are all that's left, the US Navy is all that's left of the United States, I think its our duty to help'' 
 
 So here I am sitting at my radio station in the CIC broadcasting the same message over and over: `` This is USS Shoup calling all survivors, we are willing to help anyone who can make it to us, if you can then make your way to grid coordinates 41.206026, -69.927491 and bring anything useful with you such as desalination equipment or food, we look forward to seeing you'' 
 
 A few days later the first people arrived, a scientific crew from a research vessel who had lugged a large desalination filter all the way with them... this is the beginning of something great.
