So, remembering that ten- or twenty-foot drop we’ve imagined, how would you feel if I escaped a fire in the building by dropping through that fish-guts door? No problem, right? But what if I landed in only four feet of water, still without suffering any injuries? WTF? Frankly, the whole idea sounds a bit…off-base to me. I’m so glad we’re on the same wavelength about this. If I also told you that when I first saw its overhang, I imagined that the entire building might tip over and fall into the bay, how high up would you visualize it being? Ten feet? Twenty? Good, because that’s what I thought too. But let’s set that aside, because that’s only part of my problem here. I just can’t imagine any fish-plant designer taking a risk on anything shallower. To be plausible for me, the water would have to be at least ten feet deep. No, any architect worth his blue paper would want to do this in a place where the water was fairly deep, and the current fairly strong as well, so that the dumped guts would float off to become somebody else’s problem. Any sane person would reason that with shallow water like that, the guts would just pile up and become a stinking, rotting mess. Analysis: If I tell you that a fish plant has been built on the docks, hanging out over the water so that workers can dump fish guts through a trap door, directly into the water below, how deep do you imagine that water below would be? One foot? Two? Of course not.
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