The Big Read: Help! I'm not sure how to word this

This week three men were rescued from an uninhabited island in the Micronesian archipelago, a few hundred kilometres north of Papua New Guinea. They were playing the fool in a small boat, it capsized and they swam through the warm, night-time phosphorescent sea to the island, where you can't tell me each of them wasn't eyeing out the others, wondering who was going to be eaten first and manoeuvring to make sure it wasn't going to be hi m.