"Did you see any sharks ?" "One big fellow; he hung about as if he was curious and I didn't like him near my air-pipe, but he left me alone.

The pulps you meet in warm seas are worse than sharks.

When I was down at the Spanish boat, crawling through the holes in her broken hull was nervous work.

Once I saw an arm as thick as mine waving in the dark, and started for the ladder.

We blew in that piece of her bilge with dynamite before I went on board again.