"F*ck the ocean" Beast by Peter Benchley

When I say the word “ocean”, what do you think about? For me, it's a mix of fascination and abject terror. I'd chock that up to my innate ability to sink in almost any body of water and/or liquid...and my fear of dying in it. That and if I go in too far and can’t feel the bottom, I freak out a little. It’s because I picture all the giant man eating monsters that definitely are swimming all around and beneath me, so, I panic and move back to shallower waters. In this episode, we're going to meet one of those nightmares and find out just how close we are to being it's next meal! GET THE BOOK HERE: https://amzn.to/40uWUXU BECOME AN Elton Reads A Book A Week CONTRIBUTOR HERE: https://www.patreon.com/eltonreadsabookaweek https://anchor.fm/elton-reads-a-book-a-week SOCIALS: https://linktr.ee/EltonReadsABookAWeek EMAIL: [email protected] SOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_attack https://www.thebermudian.com/heritage/heritage-heritage/isles-of-a-thousand-wrecks/ https://study.com/academy/lesson/kraken-overview-history-facts.html https://www.molluscs.at/cephalopoda/index.html?/cephalopoda/giant_squid.html https://www.nrdc.org/stories/single-discarded-fishing-net-can-keep-killing-centuries https://phys.org/news/2021-02-grisly-problem-illegal-fish.html https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/16/new-study-reveals-staggering-scale-of-lost-fishing-gear-drifting-in-earths-oceans https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/our-oceans-are-haunted-by-ghost-nets-why-that-s-scary-and-what-we-can-do--24 https://www.science.org/content/article/astounding-amount-fishing-gear-lost-ocean-each-year https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/innovative-research-aims-prevent-derelict-fishing-trap-impacts-0 https://www.peterbenchley.com/about/peter/full-biography https://www.towntopics.com/feb1506/story2.html https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/5/23/benchley-wrote-peter-jaws/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benchley https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/14/guardianobituaries.obituaries https://books.google.com/books?id=VmrQe3ty5koC&q=wendy+benchley+tv+appearances&pg=PA46#v=snippet&q=wendy%20benchley%20tv%20appearances&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Benchley https://peterbenchley.com/articles/peter-benchley-the-father-jaws-and-other-tales-the-deep Elton would like to apologize to the following: Chinese restaurants, the middle of oceans, any squid named Sid, sea shanties, Harvard, teuthiphobics, thalassophobics, people who don't like ads, and Steven Spielberg. A special thanks to Jenna Fischer and Diedrich Bader.