This is exactly right.

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Hi, thank you for letting me hook around a little bit. I'm taking a tour of this massive shrimping boat, the Barbara. It's moored on a dock in

a ransis pass. This is the off season for shrimping in the Gulf.

The engine noise is so loud, it's almost overpowering.

And there's almost overpowering.

And there's so much equipment like ropes and pulleys and boxes.

It's really easy to trip over all of it. The captain gives me a tour of the quarters for the deckhands.

They're really tight. Some people can't make it on here for more than a few days before they beg to be carried

back to land. Former prisoners often do the best on these boats because they're used to being in confined places.

This boat goes to the Gulf for a few months at a time and it's not year round.

They might only go out for four months a year and

there's no guarantee they'll catch enough shrimp to actually make money.

When Hurricane Katrina devastated the area in 2005, gas prices soared.

People lost a lot of money.

This is a tough business.

This industry, the shrimping industry, is much smaller now here in Aransas past than it used to be.

But Shrimpers helped develop this town, and the people who worked on the boats in the Gulf could be shifty in the 1930s.

Maybe they knew what happened to Dorothy Simons. diamonds.

We are back at the ocean, this time at night.

Remember I said that the ocean plays a very important role in this story.

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