Water. The small town marks the spot where the Mississippi River empties into the gulf of mexico. Locals call it the end of the world. Everybody knows everybodys business pretty much, good and bad, and some people like it and some people dont. I tend to like it. Many people in venice make their money trawling for shrimp. Its hard, dangerous work. The sea can either be friend or foe. Its rough, and the people there are rough. Its not a genteel community. Theres friction there. Theres friction there between the pleasure fishermen and the workaday fishermen that do it for a living. In july of 2000, a storm battered the louisiana coast while the fishing boats were still at sea. All the boats somehow made it back safely, all except one. Captain raymond leiker, otherwise known as tinky, and his deckhand alvin latham were missing along with their shrimp boat named the bandit. The coast guard was notified. They searched the area in the gulf where tinky had made his last radio transmission but
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