Well, he WAS a Dolphin

[Dark Star]

Pretty awesome

[subnuclear]

Can you see shore from that distance? 

[NeilT]

Can you see shore from that distance? 

probably from 1000 feet.  I wonder how you know to swim the right direction.

[HudsonHawk]

Can you see shore from that distance? 

Not in the water.  If you're 6 feet tall, you can see about 3 miles standing at water's edge.  Add the height of the boat, and it adds a little to the distance, but doesn't triple it.  He'd need to be about 18 feet above the water surface to see 9 miles.  But he knew which direction to swim, and he wasn't swimming for a life preserver.  He had to hit Florida.  Which is pretty big. 

[chuck]

From where he was at night in normal conditions the lights of south Florida are quite evident as likely would be the lights of Freeport.

[Dark Star]

It used to get confusing sometimes at night, driving down on the Bolivar Peninsula. Sometimes after several hits on the bong you couldn't tell the difference between the lights along Highway 87, and the lights from all the ships lined up out in the Gulf, waiting for their turn to go up the ship channel.

I was with a friend one night when he drove his Ford Torino almost all the way to the second sand bar before it stalled out, and we started to sink.

Hardly a dilemma on the scale of Konrad's, though.

[Ebby Calvin]

It used to get confusing sometimes at night, driving down on the Bolivar Peninsula. Sometimes after several hits on the bong you couldn't tell the difference between the lights along Highway 87, and the lights from all the ships lined up out in the Gulf, waiting for their turn to go up the ship channel.

I was with a friend one night when he drove his Ford Torino almost all the way to the second sand bar before it stalled out, and we started to sink.

Hardly a dilemma on the scale of Konrad's, though.

I've always found the third bar to have better fishing.  I usually don't drive out there though.

[NeilT]

Sounds like there was a first bar well before the second.

[Aussie Astro]

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/photographer-captures-sharks-attack-on-dolphin-at-newcastles-burwood-beach/story-fnhocwho-1227186738515

Drowning is not the only hazard dolphins face.

[Limey]

It used to get confusing sometimes at night, driving down on the Bolivar Peninsula. Sometimes after several hits on the bong you couldn't tell the difference between the lights along Highway 87, and the lights from all the ships lined up out in the Gulf, waiting for their turn to go up the ship channel.

I was with a friend one night when he drove his Ford Torino almost all the way to the second sand bar before it stalled out, and we started to sink.

Hardly a dilemma on the scale of Konrad's, though.

Of course it had to be Torino.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

Can you see shore from that distance? 

It depends on the heights of object on the shoreline. A 200 foot tall structure might be visible from a distance of nine miles.