Summary

Beginning her swimming workout off Seal Beach, California early because she wanted to spend the day with friends, Lynne Cox was not even able to see her hands pulling in the water in front of her because it was so dark. She suddenly felt the water below her shudder. Cox kept swimming even when she heard a sound that she did not recognize. She felt fish against her face and arms, and realized she was swimming through a school of baby anchovy that had been startled by the strange energy in the sea. When she turned her head to breathe, a grunion leapt into her mouth and she spit it out. She smiled because the return of the grunion was a sign of the returning spring but she worried when she realized the grunion were attracting albacore tuna. When these tuna began jumping...