On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:31:47 -0400, John H.
wrote:

Most people would regard it as deep sea fishing although we were not
off the continental shelf. We were out about 45 to 50 miles in about
100 ft of water. Off the continental shelf the water is thousands of
feet deep and you encounter so called ocean pelagic fish. In the Gulf
of Mexico you have to go out over 100 miles to be off the shelf. On
the east coast near Miami, less that 10 miles. There are places in
the Bahamas where the water drops off to thousands of feet deep less
than a mile from the inlet.

Yeah, I think just off Hole in the Wall, Abaco Island, is one of those places. That's
where we lost a 15' Boston Whaler when some rough weather came up as we were trying
to get to the other side. We'd crossed the channel coming from Eleuthra. We never did
get around the rock.

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That sounds like an adventure story we haven't heard before! Please
tell us some more! How were you rescued? Was it a government
Whaler?

That entire east side of Great Abaco goes off into very deep water
just a mile offshore and the fishing is excellent. We've been out
through Little Harbor Inlet about 30 miles north of Hole In the Wall
while we were headed south towards Eleuthera. There were 15 to 20
foot seas out of the north that day and the tuna towers of nearby
sportfishing boats were disapearing behind the waves.

I understand the natural bridge Hole In the Wall there was broken by
Hurricane Sandy.