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...brought my mom here before she died, to show her what kept me going to the ocean," she says. We come to a shovelnose guitarfish, named for obvious reasons. A grouper rows by, sculling with its pectorals. We take in the synchronized swimming of sardines and the pensive patrol of a leopard shark. She points out mackerel gleaming in the light. "I have been diving in shallows like these with the moon overhead," she says. Only half kidding, she adds, "I consider them all to be holy mackerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYLVIA EARLE : Call Of The Sea | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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