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ADVENTURE Mark Chew ADVENTURE Mark Chew

‘We pledged not to eat each other’

He looked at his father and discovered he was ankle-deep in water. Then he looked over his shoulder to the vastness of the Pacific. “There were three orcas; a daddy, mummy and a baby in between. The daddy’s head was split open and bleeding badly.”

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