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I was thinking about that as well, but I wondered if fishing for sharks wasn't as well publicized or popular a sport then. It seemed like the shore wasn't populated so much with people with summer houses as people from the city who came to stay in in fancy hotels. It was interesting to hear that many people couldn't even swim so they strung long ropes out into the ocean they could hold onto. And the one lifeguard in that story, I don't know how close it was to what he really said, but he referred to people standing on the beach watching as "the monster" whipped the guy about and feeling compelled to go save him. So the lifeguard didn't really comprehend what was going on but went out anyway...that takes a pair.
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