In the part 3 the story is becoming more and more mysterious.

Coleridge
uses plenty of signs which are usually connected with some natural phenomenon.
It gives the readers a hint of the supernatural events in this part.

First of all, the main character sees a shape and thinks that it could be
salvation but the readers can guess that it is not just an ordinary ship because it is
floating without wind : Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright
keel! And then the main character realizes it too, he sees the image of a death and
another ghost: Is that a DEATH? and are there two? /Is DEATH that woman's
mate?

He calls that ghost LIFE-IN-DEATH: The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH

was she. This creatures includes some human futures and some depths
characteristics. There are some examples of contrast in the text that confirm this
idea: "Her lips were red, her looks were free, / Her locks were yellow as gold: /
Her skin was as white as leprosy.

Life-in depth wins the death in dice: 'The game is done! I've won! I've won!'.
And after that the weather is changing immediately: The Sun's rim dips; the stars
rush out; / At one stride comes the dark. It is the sign of that something terrible can
happen and the members of the crew could probably die. And that really happens
at the end of the part 3: Four times fifty living men, / (And I heard nor sigh nor
groan) / With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, / They dropped down one by one.

However, the main character is still alive and the crewmen are judging him
without saying a word: Each turned his face with a ghastly pang, / And cursed me
with his eye.

Nevertheless, it is difficult to say that the main character is lucky to be alive

because he has to stay alone without any water, food and even another people
moral support. This life looks like a nightmare. The author gives a sign about it
even at the beginning of the part 3 when the main character sees the ship for the
first time, he compares his present life with the underground prison: As if through
a dungeon-grate he peered / With broad and burning face. And at the end of this
part the readers understand that his anguish is not over.