"Gonna Need a Bigger Boat"

In honour of the late Roy Scheider, who once played a character
with swimming issues.

	Gigantic, sea-dwelling carnivores: not your friend. The one in
JAWS was apparently inspired in part by a series of shark attacks in
New Jersey in 1916. At one point, the shark swam almost 30 km up a 
river to feed on humans but given that NJ is the same state where
cats tree bears [1], I'm not surprised by any aberrant behavior from
its animals.

	SF has the advantage that it's not limited to the carnivores 
that exist or the oceans that we know about, despite which I am having
a lot of trouble thinking of anything aside from JAWS (which wasn't
SF) that has that kind of relation****p between hunters and hunted.

	 

1: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060613-cat-bear.html
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