Sea Storytellers Gifts

'What's all the fuss about? We've been social networking for years.'

Exempli Gratia.

'This is terrible. If the plankton go out on strike, it'll disrupt the entire food chain.'

"Try the other eye Captain!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frontispiece to 'Dombey and Son'

"You may be in love, but can you support my daughter on what a herring makes?"

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

'It was this big. I swear'

Two Men Angler's In A Storm.

Octopus Puppet Show (colour)

"Will thee not sayeth uncle?!"

"He's a keeper!"

'Ships plumber reporting for duty.'

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

Angler poses with mermaid catch.

'I win!'

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

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

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

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

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

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