1. The street waited for me the way a mako shark awaits limbs hanging from inner tubes.

2. The third inspiration was a mako shark that Mitchell caught while deep-sea fishing.

3. He was a very big Mako shark built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his jaws.

4. But the seafood also is good, particularly the California halibut, Cajun mako shark and teriyaki mahi mahi.

5. But a new look at the fossil suggests that great whites are more closely related to the less fearsome and smaller mako shark, which belonged to a genus that still exists today.