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--- Lesson 90 What's for supper? |
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--- First listen and then answer the question. |
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--- What kind of fish are they? |
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Fish and chips has always been a favourite dish in Britain, |
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but as the oceans have been overfished, fish has become more and more expensive. |
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So it comes as a surprise to learn that giant fish are terrifying the divers on North Sea oil rigs. |
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Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water, |
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have been frightened out of their wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work. |
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Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters. |
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The fish are not sharks or killer whales, |
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but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes, sometimes as much as twelve feet in length. |
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Three factors have caused these fish to grow so large: |
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the warm water round the hot oil pipes under the sea; |
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the plentiful supply of food thrown overboard by the crews on the rigs; |
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the total absence of fishing boats around the oil rigs. |
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As a result, the fish just eat and eat and grow and grow in the lovely warm water. Who eats who? |
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