Ocean Storyteller Gifts

'Look Reg, a ship...we're saved!'

"Hey grandpa, tell us more about the time you were in that Steven Spielberg movie."

Anchored Fish.

For his next book, he would write an epic novel of the sea.

The one that got away

'Are we there yet?'

'So Captain Ahab, I put it to you that you were deliberately stalking my client!'

Naval Veterans Drinking at Greenwich Pub

Fishing with God

"As I was only saying the other day..."

'I wonder why scuba divers always fall backwards off their boats.'

'Well, it wasn't my lucky day... first there was that shark and then I bimped into a bunch of beaver!'

'It's true what they say: People often look like their pets...'

'Son, I told you before: If you circle your prey for too long, you get dizzy...'

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

Scuba: 'You call that a knot, now this is a knot.'

Octopus Puppet Show (colour)

'It was this big. I swear'

Two Men Angler's In A Storm.

"He's a keeper!"

"Will thee not sayeth uncle?!"

'Fear of getting caught is understandable but fear of water, I think, requires counselling.'

'I win!'

Angler poses with mermaid catch.

'No Jake, I don't want to watch you do it again.'

'I've told you time and again, if you didn't east so fast, you wouldn't swallow so much flotsam.'

'To think we used to complain about a little flotsam and jetsam.'

'It's grossed over a billion dollars. Let's go see the Titanic wreck.'

"Have ye seen a whale that matches this swatch?"

'I'm afraid the motion has been carried and you lost.'

"My new book will be an epic novel of the sea."

Help! Trapped on a desert island cartoon...

'Believe me, it's overrated up here.'

"I lost the hand to a shark, the leg to a barracuda, and the gallbladder to Dr. Steven Erlich."

"I forget who, but he's somebody's kid."