For those of you who are so benighted, so bereft of knowledge, that you don't know what a ling cod looks like....

And here's some more pictures....

I did not change (i.e., transmogrify) into a ling cod. I merely assisted Mr. Whips in believing that I did.

Did you ever swim in the Bering Sea? Even in summer? When I escaped we were twelve miles off Attu. That water was cold, buddy, cold! A brass monkey fell overboard and jumped back aboard. A witch wore a Thinsulate bra. And I swam from the ship to Douglas Island.