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Title: Fish Story
Review: Fontava is a Cuban immigrant who scuba dives and spear fishes around the oil rigs that dot the continental shelf around New Orleans. The oil platforms have become artificial reefs that attract sea creatures and consequently, divers. The sport is dangerous, but not insanely so; its enthusiasts have swum and hunted for decades, experiencing plenty of scratches and bites but relatively few fatalities. The author apparently decided to write in the style of the WWF, which I found off-putting. But beneath the macho posturing is his sincere lifelong love affair with skin diving and the friends who share the adventures, thrills, dangers, stories, and parties. Like most hunters, they are conservationists at heart; like many men, they look back at their wild youths and marvel at their survival. Fontava has a nice sense for describing the primal thrill that comes from testing oneself against the forces of nature.
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