Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

Because you never know when the day before ... Is the day before. Prepare for tomorrow.

If you don't have the physical conditioning necessary to get your self out of trouble, the skills in this book won't do you much good.

Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.