Shark Oil Barometers
Traditionally, Bermudians rely on unique shark-oil based "barometers" to predict storms and other severe weather. Small bottles of oil are hung outside.
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Famous quotes containing the words shark and/or oil:
“De god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“No skilled hands
caress a stranger’s flesh with lucid oil before
a word is spoken
no feasting
before a tale is told, before
the stranger tells his name.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)