That essay may be fiction, but could easily be a true story. The brother of a family friend, Bennet Lubell was known as “The King of the Block”, he lived on Block Island and fished constantly back when. Not only was he an excellent, strong swimmer, he had his own current charts and knew the littorals all around the island. He always carried his knife, but I don’t think PFDs were used back then. Well anyway, one night he went out and sadly never returned. We don’t know exactly what happened but I’ll never forget this when fishing.