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...them on the bottom-usually wait for hours. . . . In the garden of a Nassau hotel there used to be the jaws of a hammerhead shark, with a placard: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." A more appropriate exhibit would have been the jaws of a large barracuda (sphyraena barracuda), sharp-fanged "tiger fish" of West Indian waters. Long, silvery, black-barred, barracudas haunt the shallows boldly by day, are far more ferocious and aggressive than sand sharks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Last Swim | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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