The Log of a Sea Angler; Sport And Adventures in Many Seas With Spear And Rod
The Log of a Sea Angler; Sport And Adventures in Many Seas With Spear And Rod
Charles Frederick Holder
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So clear was the water that the sharks could be distinctly seen, and I had repeatedly dived down as one was passing, opening my eyes quickly to see the dun-colored shape melting away into the green. At times several swimmers would plunge downward, literally driving away sharks so large that a man would have been a fair meal for some of them. These sharks were so-called man-eaters. Car-- charhiniy of extraordinary bulk ; and my various experiences with them tend to show, at least in my estimatio...n, that a shark is a coward when well fed, but when starving, possessed of demoniac and bloodthirsty persistency and brute courage. I frequently swam across the deep channel to Long Key, sometimes with a companion, some- times alone, and when midway have seen the dorsal fin of a shark up the channel ; and doubt- less numbers of sharks swam beneath me en route. Once a large shark came so near in mid-channel that my companion suggested that we frighten it ; 142 THE LOG OF A SEA ANGLER so we performed what the boys called the " steam- boat act/* striking the water violently with hands and feet.
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