I need help with this question about hatchet!?

Question

1) Once inside the plane, how many times did Brian have to dive down before he got the survival bag up and floating?
*I don't have my book with me because I was absent at school, and I have to get all of the questions done by tomorrow even though I was absent. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!!!

Answer 1

That's a good example of a trivial question. I don't have my copy here, but it is in Chapter 18, when you locate yours . . .

Frustrated by his inability to access the inside of the plane, Brian strikes it with his fist and the aluminum covering opens. Using the hatchet to cut through the rest of the sections, Brian is hacking away at a furious pace when he suddenly drops the hatchet and it falls to the bottom of the lake. After a few tries, Brian succeeds in picking the hatchet up from the bottom, having barely enough air in his lungs to return to the surface. He continues to cut into the plane and swims down into it to retrieve the survival pack. On his way back up he sees the pilot's head, the flesh eaten away by fish. Traumatized, Brian gets sick in the water and, struggling to free the pack from the plane, and arrives at the surface. Exhausted from his efforts, Brian drags the survival pack to his shelter and falls immediately into a deep sleep.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/hatchet/section6.rhtml

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Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

i just read the book.
it was 3 times i believe.

Answer 3

i believe it was 3

Answer 4

i think three or four......thats a really good book!