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    My Friend Michale a true story about the Real Jaws
    My Friend Michale a true story about the Real Jaws
    My Friend Michale a true story about the Real Jaws
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    My Friend Michale a true story about the Real Jaws

    By Kenneth Grimshaw

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    MY FRIEND MICHALE
    A true STORY about
    The REAL JAWS

    SUMMARY

    The story is about Ward, a Great White Shark, sharing life’s lessons and his remarkable friendship. The author tells this tale in the first person as Ward. The facts are based on a true story, including the location, Montauk, L.I., New York. The names in the book are fictitious. The event caused a media frenzy viewed around the world!
    After twenty-five years, fish spotting from the air, in a Super Cub, the author became an expert on finding and observing Great White Sharks. He brings his expertise to life in this amazing story. For many years, he believed that these intelligent creatures communicate with each other, and are capable of solving even for humans, complex problems.
    He makes Ward’s family come alive with tales of growing up, the various lessons learned, travel, and very sad misfortunes. You will share the utmost compassion for Ward and his family right up until the astonishing and unpredictable conclusion!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKenneth Grimshaw
    Release dateJan 5, 2011
    ISBN9781452471891
    My Friend Michale a true story about the Real Jaws
    Author

    Kenneth Grimshaw

    AUTHOR BIOThe author, a native East Hampton Bonacker, is a fifteen thousand hour airline transport rated pilot. He had the utmost privilege for years, of meeting and flying America’s Who’s Who! He then spent the other half of his life flying a Super Cub off Montauk, L.I., N.Y., spotting Swordfish, Giant Tuna, Whales, and Great White Sharks! During this time frame, he was also the captain of sport fishing boats catching many of these same game fish!In the summer of 1978, he was the only one to capture visible photographs of a Great White Shark, who had been harpooned that same day. In Mr. Grimshaw’s photos taken from his fish spotting Super Cub, the shark is visible under water!His photos were used by none other than Walter Cronkite on the CBS evening news that night! He was also interviewed on NBC’S Today Show by Jane Pauley! One of his Great White Shark photos was on the front page of the New York Daily News! Nick Karas, Newsday’s chief sports writer interviewed, fished with, and wrote about Mr. Grimshaw several times that summer. Peter Benchley (The author of “JAWS”) fished with Mr. Grimshaw for over a week!He then received his fifteen minutes of fame with Curt Gowdy, which led to a one hour ABC American Sportsman episode! These Great White Shark capers led to his appearances on other American Sportsmen shows, also morning TV shows, and many newspaper interviews and articles!He also had the good luck to be invited to fly the Concorde at mach 2.2, twice the speed of sound, and a once in a life time opportunity as the only American to fly the “Hermes” the European space shuttle simulator!

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      My Friend Michale a true story about the Real Jaws - Kenneth Grimshaw

      MY FRIEND MICHALE

      by

      Kenneth Grimshaw

      Smashwords Edition

      * * * * *

      Published on Smashwords by:

      Kenneth Grimshaw

      My Friend Michale

      Copyright 2011 by Kenneth Grimshaw

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

      * * * * *

      TO SUSAN

      * * * * *

      Part 1

      Buffy, my daughter, had been fairly calm but she was now borderline hysterical. It was 8:10 p.m., and my soul mate, Landry, had not returned. I had attempted all afternoon to stay on a northeast heading to help shorten Landry’s distance to me.

      How could I have been this foolish? Had my ego gotten in front of my common sense? I had been taught to be more resourceful! My hunger was not strong enough to overcome my reasoning, so why had I left myself vulnerable like that to humans? Was I just not thinking clearly?

      My name is Ward; I am a great white shark. Sixteen years ago I was born just off the south shore of Long Island, New York. I lived most of the time there with my family, who for the past ten hours had been put through this unbearable heartbreak because I did not follow life’s lessons.

      ~~~

      June 23, 1978, was another beautiful early summer morning in the sleepy Montauk fishing village at the eastern end of Long Island, New York. The weather was forecast to be perfect, in the mid-seventies with a light southwest wind with no fog. The charter boat Floodtide, an older, forty-two- foot Egg Harbor, was about to become one of the most famous fishing boats in history.

      Captain Dave Sowermen and his mate, Chris Reed, readied the craft for its trip eighteen miles due south of Montauk Point to the Butterfish Hole. This is the closest point off Long Island’s south shore where the depth of the ocean reaches thirty fathoms or 180 feet. On average, you have to go south one mile for each fathom; hence thirty miles south for thirty fathoms of depth.

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