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After a long flight, this lemon shark is recovering in the holding
tank. (Photo by author)
of saltwater!” Without turning around the pilot said, “You take care
of the fish and we'll take care of the airplane.” Well, okay, we thought.
Glad it's your plane, not ours.
All went well until we crossed over west Texas and hit a violent
thunderstorm. The plane was thrown around and the groupers and
alligator gars freaked out, leaping and splashing and spilling even more
seawater down below. Moving about to check on the pumps, bat-
teries, and our fishes was extremely di‹cult thanks to the steel deck
rollers, which made walking upright virtually impossible. So we
crawled around on hands and knees, hanging on to whatever we could
grab.
Things calmed down after Texas, and pretty soon we were about an
hour out of San Diego. About then all the lights in the plane went out:
we instantly knew that the spilled seawater had shorted out the elec-
trical system. Now it was pitch black in the back except for the mea-
ger beams of our flashlights. We all prayed that it was only the lights
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