 This episode began with the contestants aboard a luxury liner  dressed in their fine clothes having been told they were being taken  to a publicity shoot. The liner dropped anchor a good distance from  shore, Jeff Probst (I) (qv) climbed aboard, and proceeded to  inform the contestants that "the game has begun." The Survivors were  divided into their tribes, told to "abandon ship", and swim to shore  with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Then, each tribe was  given 100 Balboas (Panamanian currency) and told to go to a fishing  village and buy what they needed for the next 39 days.