“I know what it’s like to jump off and swim off a boat in the gulf,” he said.

Some communities have chosen to live near protected backwaters, which offer the distance from the ocean while allowing them to haul in their boats at the end of the day.

There were few fishing ships on the sea in 1900 when an enormous number of fish swam freely; in contrast , in 1995 a large fleet of ships were endeavoring to search for the only fish in the sea.

The ship flooded from the bottom up, and when the rising water shorted out the electrical system, the massive boat shifted into reverse.

In all this too there will be the poorest person who also lived on the beach, crewed on one of the boats perhaps, with no land title.