A WILD AND AN UNTAMED THING
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This ain’t how you do it
did the Wild Coast. And I did it all wrong. Well, perhaps I didn’t do it all wrong but if I did it again, I’d do a couple things differently. For one, I’d only venture ankle deep into the sea. Provided I could resist the call of these endless oceans, that is. I say this after hearing about someone being mauled by a shark in knee-deep water in a gentle estuary stream somewhere along the coast, and about dangerous Wild Coast riptides. These ferocious seas have claimed countless nautical victims. There was the ill-fated Oceanos in 1991: Captain Yiannis Avranas famously abandoned ship, leaving rescue operations to the vessel’s musos and magician who managed – abracadabra – to heroically help save all 571 people onboard.
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