Word: seamount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jaws has produced a simple story that is longer on charm than chills. Paloma, 16, lives on an island in the Sea of Cortez (the Gulf of California) and mourns her drowned father. For comfort, she spends her days skindiving at the secret place he had shown her: a seamount, or underwater volcanic formation, where an astonishing variety offish gather and feed...
...decides, with his two companions, to cast his fishing nets there. She cannot stop them or prevent news of the find from reaching all the other fishermen in her village. But she bumps into an improbable ally: a giant manta ray that seems as interested in preserving the seamount as she is. Lest credulity be overstrained, a dust-jacket photograph shows Author Benchley riding on the back of a manta ray. If he can do it, so, presumably, can Paloma. Such authentication is really unnecessary. The Girl of the Sea of Cortez is an underwater morality play with a happy...
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