The student, a tone young man with a somewhat vacant expression of shock upon his face, just stared at Lihua for a few moments as he thought of how to put it into words.  "They were like...sharks," he tried to explain.  "Not sharks, though.  Sharks don't have tentacles with big blades on them, do they?"  He spun to look back in the general direction of the beach.  "Oh, God, they're all dead...how are we going to get out of here?  It's not safe in the water..."