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Ivica stayed home brooding. So he was too old and too weak. "Budalastina [What poppycock]," he muttered. "I am stronger than all the men of Bol, and I will show them." Ivica knew a cove along the shore beyond the village. Hiding in the rocks of a reef 50 ft. out was a giant conger eel. For years the men of Bol had tried to catch it and had failed. Every day after the younger men had rowed off to the fishing grounds, the old man clambered along the rocky shore to the cove and cast toward the reef. Always...
...rocks to wait. Ivica grew drowsy in the warm sun, looped the wire around his leg so that the eel's first tug would awaken him. That evening he did not return home. Ivica's sons found him, floating dead, in shallow water near the reef. The steel line was looped tightly around his leg. On the other end of the line was the eel, a 10-ft.-long, 300-lb. giant - the biggest ever caught in the Adriatic Sea with hook and line...
...first voyage as master. In 26 years the sturdy, Belfast-built Reina had made the trip hundreds of times. This time, six miles out, in the midst of colorful sea-fan gardens growing in coral that teems with blue angelfish, the Reina went aground on Devil's Reef...
...sequences, Suchmann is looking for photogenic material. "We want a film of good quality," he explains. Both his cameramen are eminently suited to give him just this. They are Lloyd M. Ritter '50 and Murray L. Lerner '48, who photographed the Oscar-winnings Secrets of the Reef. They have also made a number of movies for television...
...MOTHBALLING of wartime ships for private charter is hitting a reef. U.S. cargo lines badly need vessels but cannot pay for reconditioning because costs recently doubled to about $240,000 a ship...