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To: Red Badger

She is really pretty and her father is a hero.


3 posted on 06/03/2019 12:27:08 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog

Back in the late seventies I lived in Oman during my oilfield days. It was on the Arabian Gulf. The sea was beautiful with its reefs and fish. I dived twice a week. We did not even use scuba as the reefs were close to the surface. Scuba gear was not needed to see the beauty of the reef. I was “shit scared” of sharks. I realized that to behold the beauty of the reef and the fish and all was worth the small chance of an attack by a shark.

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We were snorkeling a few hundred yards offshore one day. The other guys decided to go back in the launch. I wanted to swim some more and see the reef. I told them I would just swim back I played around the reef for a bit than swam back.

While swimming back were many tropical fish. About half way across they all went south and I was alone. It was either a barracuda or shark. My only thought was I hope it is a barracuda. Attacks by barracudas are rare though they can inflict great injury on rare occasions, extremely rare is this.

I swam home with nothing biting me. It was a grand day on the reef.


33 posted on 06/03/2019 1:18:41 PM PDT by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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