It wasn't any coral reef......

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Nomik

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I know where P town in is! My dad kept his boat in one of the many Mass marinas(I can't believe it's been too long for me to remember which one). He enjoyed taking me on little dat trips to the Cape, Gloucester, Newburyport . .ahhh. .I don't want to get sidetracked;;D. After he sold it, we would often charter a fishing boat out of Rye harbor and spend the day fishing for mackerel. :angel:
 

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"Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. . .Not like going down the pond chasin' bluegills and tommycods."

"And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. "

"You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn."


"Twenty-four hours is like three weeks!"

think he's gone under the boat! Yes it's too easy! He's a smart, big fish; he's gone under the boat!

There in the yahd...not too fah from de cah. How's that?

Like you're from New York.

why don't you come down here and chum sone of this #$!&?
 

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Nomik

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I didn't know you were seriously looking into this.
I wouldn't book with any company that couldn't promise a thrill. How on earth will they attract sharks?
It sounds dangerous, especially if you are smaller than the opening of the cage.
 

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I didn't know you were seriously looking into this.
I wouldn't book with any company that couldn't promise a thrill. How on earth will they attract sharks?
It sounds dangerous, especially if you are smaller than the opening of the cage.

I would love to do it. It's a bit cost prohibitive, though.

You don't want chum or bait in the water as it causes abnormal behavior.

There are so many sharks off Guadalupe Island (where I would prefer to do it) that you don't need to bait or chum.
 

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

"There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear."
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"The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future."
Peter Benchley, Jaws

In case you haven't noticed, life is incredibly short. I hope I don't wake up at the end, blaming Peter Benchley for misrepresenting the potential inadequacies of futuristic shark cages.
 
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Ebdim9th

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Sadly, Peter Benchley co-authors everything these days ... I wish that wasn't his futuristic (is this the way all latter-days-of-one's-career direction on working on one's books is fated to head?) approach to novel-writing ....
 

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I haven't read any Benchley in so long I don't even really remember the quality of his work. I did read Jaws II when I was a kid (The Reader's Digest Condensed version at that, scary!) but I'm sure someone else wrote that .... (there was a dull orange boom, {from the shotgun} the last thing the guy experienced as he was led down to the beach to be executed, about all I remember from it, totally paraphrased of course)
 
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Ebdim9th

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Tom Clancey had a lot of co-authors before he passed away ... Benchley was the same ...

James Patterson doesn't write without co-authors now ... it's a pattern ...

I just saw one of Benchley's co-authored novels in a store very recently, it was 'packaged' as though it had just been released ... so I was fooled ...
 
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