Posted on 07/02/2019 9:47:42 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
Sounds GOOD to me. = CONGRADS.
Yours, TMN78247
Going from memory- in the movie JAWS, mayor Vaughn says to the Chief of Police:
Martin ,you yell barracuda, everyone says ,what? huh?
But you yell shark, and we got a panic on our hands on the fourth of July!
We have an irrational fear of sharks and nothing is going to reduce that, as long as sharks are present in our swimming environment.
There are so many conflicting agendas involved here I can't see a satisfactory solution.
But I'll work on one between now and then. -Tom
First one I saw diving in the Bahamas I jumped up and into the dinghy in seconds flat, I remember my uncle, who used to dive in "holes" with tons of sharks circling him, said to never do something abrupt like that. Funny how things stick with you.
In the 1970s I was snorkeling on a reef on one of the deserted Grenadine Islands in the Caribbean. I had a decent size shark sizing me up, so my diving partner and I slowly made our way back to our inflatable boat, where we met two more of our diving friends.
He told them abbot the incident and when he got the word "shark" out of his mouth both diving friends were into the boat seemingly in one motion.
Amazing how much lift you can get from flippers to propel you into a low freeboard boat -Tom
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