Refusing to surrender until all options had been exhausted, Willoughby dispatched boats to Sirius, asking Pym if he believed it would be practical to send boats to tow Nereide out of range. Pym replied that with the boats engaged in attempting to tow Sirius and Magicienne off the reef it was not possible to deploy them under fire to tow Nereide.
Willoughby refused to surrender until all options had been exhausted, so he sent boats to Sirius to ask Pym if it would be feasible to use them to tow Nereide away from the reef. Pym responded that with the boats already engaged in trying to tow Sirius and Magicienne off the reef, they couldn't be used to tow Nereide under fire.