Jaws is based on this but I never knew that until the other day.

Her friends must have taken some cell phone video of her leg, although the wound was so “graphic” the tv station chose to blur it out to spare our tender sensibilities. So all the tv viewer saw was an image slowly pannining her leg from bikini to ankle, but the wound could not be seen at all, except as a bright red oval blur on her calf. Why bother? They could have just as easily photoshopped some stock footage and gotten the same result..

Still, from what I could see of it, it was a pretty nice leg. I’m glad they were able to save it.

But I’ve never seen them schooling like this around here. I’ve always thought they were solitary fish. The stingrays do school here, and the bullnose rays, in summer. I used to sail upwind of the sand flats, then run down to leeward with the centerboard and rudder kicked up, into water just deep enough to float the boat. You could really sneak up on them like that, and they would swim together by the thousands, just inches above the the sand in the crystal clear water until they sensed the boat right on top of them. Then they would scatter away from us in all directions, like a silent explosion of sand. I suspect they school this way in their season for some reproductive reason, although they don’t need to, they fertilize their eggs internally so they don’t need to release milt and roe in the water like other schooling fish do.

Its just another mystery.