And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea;and it should obey you.
At thirteen I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash.
The channel is at least 19 nautical miles of open water, often with big swells, power tides, ships and ferries plowing up, down and across, but recently much smaller vessels have been crossing too.
They all have their own personalities — Moon-dancer is very elegant and curves out and into the water very smoothly, whereas Samson has a lot of energy — he's always leaping out of the water with great vigour.
Beach-netting, or meshing, involves setting large nets parallel to the shore; this means that the nets on New South Wale beaches are set on one day, and then lifted and taken out to sea on the next day.
It came from a German ship that was sailing from the U.K. to what's now Indonesia, and it's one of thousands of bottles thrown overboard in a German experiment to study global ocean currents.