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Article: BONAIRE: A Caribbean island with an exotic nightlife _ under water
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- February 5, 2004
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BRIAN BAKST, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
02-05-2004
Dateline: KRALENDIJK, Bonaire
"He's silver, he's long, he's big and he's quite ugly."
After watching more than one snorkeler flee the water screaming "Shark!," guide Dedrie Pedersen now routinely advises clients, before they jump in, of a menacing giant that could cross their path.
"He" is a 6-foot-long (1.8-meter-long) tarpon that regularly skirts this stretch of Bonaire shoreline at night to feed on small fish, shrimp and crab.
But, it turns out, there's no need for after-dark snorkelers to worry. They act as allies rather than prey by illuminating his dinner with their flashlights.
In Bonaire, when the sun dips into the Caribbean ...
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