Word: shrimpers
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When the sun is high, Tim Racca, a Cameron shrimper, is washing down his boat. "They're all big on the radio," he says, "but you see them on land, they're like puppy dogs. It's mostly mouth, but it can be dangerous. You've got somebody 1 ft. away, and you go down, you take three boats on the rocks with you probably." Racca said that it "isn't the Cameron shrimpers against the lake shrimpers. It's people against people. They're all scared they'll let one shrimp...
...channel the shrimper allows that he bought his 40-ft., all- cypress boat four years ago for $15,000, from a neighbor named Buddy Wannage. He says he paid too much for it, and that so far he has only managed to pay the interest on his loan. He does not know the age of his boat -- "People make them in their backyard. It's not a factory rig" -- which at this very moment is breaking down, just shy of the Firing Line. An exhaust sleeve is spewing dirty water like a coffee percolator gone wild. Overheated, dead...
...fled to the U.S. Last month the immigrants organized a daylong festival to thank Miami for its support and to display the talents of the boatlift's artists. Said Choreographer and Dancer Pedro Pablo Peña, who washed up on the shores of Key West in a shrimper and now directs the 14-member Creation Ballet in Coral Gables: "This is the other face of Mariel. It shows we are succeeding and contributing to this country...
...Bingo," says Murtagh. Looking through his own binoculars he finds the target, a 68-ft.-long shrimper. It is within Mexico's twelve-mile boundary waters, so Dauntless cannot take up pursuit without authorization from the Coast Guard's 7th District, headquartered in Miami. Murtagh breaks radio silence to ask permission and mutters, "John Paul Jones didn't have to put up with all of this...
...hours ticked into days, life in Mariel harbor grew monotonous, strangely communal. On one shrimper, a woman gave birth; on another boat, a man suffered a heart attack. There was a mini-mutiny aboard one boat; the captain, impatient after five days, decided to return home, although he had a $38,000 charter to pick up refugees. An angry exile pulled out a pistol and held him in his cabin a full day. The Cuban military presence also became more visible. Soldiers patrolled the banks of the harbor with automatic rifles. Jumbo choppers whipped across...