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The sun rises over a narrow sea . A man stands on a steel tower , about twenty meters high . Under him there is a boat . He watches the water and waits . This is the Strait of Messina , in the south of Italy . Here the sea is very narrow . Only three kilometers of water separate Sicily from Calabria . The water turns and changes direction every six hours . The man looks for a big fish : the swordfish . Every spring and summer , many swordfish cross the strait . They swim near the surface , in the warm water . The narrow sea brings them all together . The fishermen use a special boat . It has a long walkway at the front . The walkway is up to forty meters long . At its end , a man waits with a harpoon . The man on the tower sees the fish first . Then the man on the walkway throws the harpoon with his hands . People hunted the swordfish here two thousand years ago . Ancient sailors said : " This water is dangerous . " Today the boat still goes out every summer . And high on the tower , a man watches the sea and waits .
