No one is out trying to kill fisherman or loggers or garbage collectors.
The waves here have long been compared to invincible enemies, killing fishermen, vacationers and frequently inundating streets and shops.
But even the Sentinelese have had occasional brushes with other societies; members of their tribe have been kidnapped, helicopters sometimes fly over their island and they have killed fishermen who have ventured too close.
In at least one incident, security guards killed Somali fishermen, mistaking them for pirates.
He had broken a promise to return two marines accused of killing Indian fishermen.
The fisheries service estimates that in American waters, 23percentt of the total bluefin tuna killed by fishermen are killed for sport.
Federal rules were criticized after a boat sank in turbulent waters Dec. 20, killing five fishermen aboard.
The marines, who were serving on a cargo ship off India's coast last year, are accused of killing the fishermen, whom they said they mistook for pirates.
Canada and Spain had a serious row about Greenland halibut a few years ago, and the Malaysian navy has killed Thai fishermen suspected of illegal fishing.
The two marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, are accused of killing the fishermen off the coast of the southern Indian state of Kerala in February 2012, while on duty guarding an Italian oil tanker from pirates.
