This scenario will require us to live carefully and cautiously, sticking close to shore, never venturing too far beyond safe moorings, lest we be caught in a sudden storm.
They also sweep valuables into shore that were once too far out at sea to reach.
A supertanker, not too far from shore, but in heavy surf — on the edge of trouble?
Some may regard the story as needlessly alarming, while others may see it as a useful warning about venturing too far from shore.
"I was told to leave when we were not too far from shore because they had too many men, they didn't want to imperil everyone," Mr. Wittek recalled in an interview in June 2008.
There were small leads, then a larger one, where the Salmon River flowed into the sound, but the open water was too far from shore, and we wouldn't be able to get a boat out there safely.
There may be something there for the intrepid explorer: as Dylan sang in "Driftin' Too Far From Shore," one of the songs from "Knocked Out Loaded" that no one bothered to cover, "These times and tunnels are haunted / The bottom of the barrel is, too".
A few days ago Democrats seized on the White House admission that Mr. Bush had landed on the carrier in a Navy jet because he wanted to, not, as White House officials had told reporters, because the ship was too far off shore for a helicopter to make the trip safely.
We're largely talking about small boats travelling not too far from shore - which limits the area for fishing.
Mabul, which is popular with both chic luxury-resort divers and young backpackers, is world famous for its "muck-diving", where explorers poke around at the fascinating marine life that settles into silty mud located not too far off shore.
