3. Read the passage.

"At length did cross an Albatross ... And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through!"

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," what happens to the Mariner's ship right after the Albatross arrives?

A) It is attacked by water snakes.

B) It gets caught in a bad wind.

C) It is freed from the ice.

D) It becomes lost in a fog for nine weeks.