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Article: Troubled waters: The story behind `The Perfect Storm'.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- May 4, 2005
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Byline: Michael McLeod
ORLANDO, Fla. _ The fishing village of Cortez, Fla., curls along the northern shoreline of Sarasota Bay, its narrow streets and weathered bungalows huddled around the whitewashed concrete outline of the A.P. Bell Fish Co. the way other communities encircle clock towers and steeples.
Past the postage-stamp yards piled high with stone-crab traps and fishing buoys, across a washboard parking lot edged with mounds of shells, a score of commercial fishing boats clatter against the docks behind the staunch, two-story building.
Somewhere, a crew is applying a coat of fiberglass to the deck of a shrimp boat. Somewhere else, a bin ...